Top 100 Quotes About Complaints
#1. I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.
P.G. Wodehouse
#2. [American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.
Alec Baldwin
#3. Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
William Temple
#4. Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.
Charles Francis Richter
#5. An increasing cackle of complaints, orders, and jests, and what to a European would have been bad language, came from behind the curtains. Here was evidently a woman used to command.
Rudyard Kipling
#6. More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail, abuse, smears and formal complaints with forged documentation.
Ben Goldacre
#7. We always have the potential to rise. Rise out of our slump. Rise out of our negative thoughts. Rise out of our comfort zone. Rise out of our complaints. GET UP AND RISE. Rising is a choice that's one powerful thought away.
Kris Carr
#8. When I hear complaints about less liquidity, remember there is such a thing as too much liquidity.
Paul Volcker
#10. God answers faith-filled complaints with grace, with character development, with power to persevere, and with a long-term plan that makes all things turn out right in the end.
Greg Pruett
#11. Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Francesco Guicciardini
#12. Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.
Iyanla Vanzant
#13. The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me.
Chuck Palahniuk
#14. Somehow postwedding sex seemed completely new. Not to mention the fact that there were no nosy teenagers within a mile radius. We could be as loud as we wanted. We were tossed out of three hotels because of complaints from the other guests.
Molly Harper
#15. I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.
Horace Walpole
#16. Don't change the subject," Blaze snapped. "You said dragons? And untie me, damn it. My wrists hurt." He shrugged, completely ignoring her complaints. "Of course there are dragons. Where you think the myths come from?
Sara King
#17. Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.
Samuel Johnson
#18. Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.
Walt Whitman
#19. You've got complaints about me? wow! that means you think 'bout me.
Shreya Gupta
#20. Quantum mechanics - the physics of our world - requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
Brian Greene
#21. I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#22. As a child, we let go of the past easily but not as an adult. As a child, we changed one grade after another without complaints and with eagerness, but now we are changing our grade every day, but without joy and with great dismay.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Denis Diderot
#24. The bureau is closed, said Gavroche. I'm receiving no more complaints.
Victor Hugo
#25. Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do ...
George R R Martin
#26. Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross.
Michael Isikoff
#27. Life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong, and complaints about the world around you.
Sara Zarr
#28. You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.
Simon Pegg
#29. One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.
Kevin McKidd
#30. In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquium, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world's oldest problems in its newest nomenclature.
Amor Towles
#31. The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#32. I'm a reasonably attractive young gal, great rack, nice legs, and never had any complaints in the sack. But I'd never been - cue sad music - in love before. And no one had ever been - cue sadder music - in love with me.
Alice Clayton
#33. Pixy dust thickened to make my eyes water, but after the loud complaints and muttered disappointment, the Disney nightmare subsided as quickly as it had come.
Kim Harrison
#34. Lucy had no complaints about her dinner. Anything was fine with her as long as she didn't have to cook it.
Leslie Meier
#35. Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope,
And God Save
as you prefer
the King or Ireland.
The land of scholars and saints:
Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush,
Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints
Louis MacNeice
#37. In my defense I have
only silence, dew on the grass, a nightingale
among the branches. You forgive it,
its long tenure in the leaves of one aspen
after another, drops of eternity, grams
of amazement, and the sleepy complaints of the poor poets
Adam Zagajewski
#38. The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.
Joyce Carol Oates
#39. I had my share of issues, but now, it's something that's made me who I am and no complaints.
Tony Oller
#40. Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn.
Lou Gerstner
#41. Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
Hedy Lamarr
#42. One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.
Marcus Aurelius
#44. I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.
Wayne Gretzky
#45. Could you bite back your complaints? You're fucking with my run."
"Your run is fucking with my ability to complain," Tom called back.
S.E. Jakes
#46. I had everything I could possibly want
yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing crises, weary of struggling with my own nature, I too often failed to comprehend the splendor of what I had.
Gretchen Rubin
#47. When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.
Aristotle.
#48. The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
Ian McKellen
#49. When things change, I think that's easy to get really wrapped up in the complaints.
Scott Heiferman
#50. Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints.
Gael Monfils
#51. Customer complaints need to be addressed effectively.
Rajen Jani
#52. Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used accounting gimmickry to inflate their profits, many investors thought the crisis at Enron was an isolated case.
Alex Berenson
#53. She lived just three blocks away, in a faded brick building whose limitations and malfunctions she'd come to understand as the texture of her life, to be distinguished from a normal day's complaints.
Don DeLillo
#54. C gives the programmer what the programmer wants; few restrictions, few complaints... C++ maintains the original spirit of C, that the programmer not the language is in charge.
Herbert Schildt
#55. You would probably think that rock music is an urban phenomena, but the main reason for doing it in '68 was so that we could play music very loud any time of the day or night without getting complaints from the neighbours.
Steve Winwood
#56. Mary, often a little unwell, and always thinking a great deal of her own complaints,
Jane Austen
#57. I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.
Stanley Cavell
#58. Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.
Daniel Okrent
#59. The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy
Sunday Adelaja
#60. I am sure that all complaints regarding me were initiated from Ukraine.
Yulia Tymoshenko
#61. It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints ... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
Natalie Cole
#62. A steady flow of complaints about the proliferation of books reverberated into the late 1600s. Intellectuals warned that people would stop talking to each other, burying themselves in books, polluting their minds with useless, fatuous ideas.
Daniel J. Levitin
#63. Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to trust that you won't fall into an abyss of nothingness but into the safe embrace of a God whose love will heal all your wounds.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#64. People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you.
Helena Dela
#65. God accommodates [Moses'] complaints and makes in-course corrections. God does not take a human being so fully into the divine confidence--you might say, God does not depend on a human being so fully--until Mary conceives by the Holy Spirit. (pg. 16)
Ellen F. Davis
#66. Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.
Norman Jewison
#67. We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
Jean Anouilh
#68. Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.
Jack Ma
#69. I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side
Audre Lorde
#70. Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.
Aynsley Dunbar
#71. The complaints of many Christians as to lack of joy and strength, as to failure and want of growth, are simply owing to this - the place God gave Holiness in His call they have not given it in their response. God and they have never yet come to an agreement on this.
Andrew Murray
#72. Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Mason Cooley
#75. That very breath wherewith they utter their complaints is a blessing and a fundamental one too for if God would withdraw that they were incapable of whatsoever else either have or desire.
Richard Allestree
#76. An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.
Sri Chinmoy
#77. I thought of the similarities of complaints
always selfishness, always blindness
and the old psychological truth that what we complain of in others, others will complain of in us.
Alain De Botton
#78. Real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
Lady Caroline Lamb
#79. According to the English scholar Richard Lloyd-Jones, some of the clay tablets deciphered from ancient Sumerian include complaints about the deteriorating writing skills of the young.
Steven Pinker
#80. The humanist, who read too much, ate too much. He quoted and burped, and these two complaints were equally repugnant to his neighbor, a self-made aristocrat, Madame Lenoir.
Marcel Proust
#81. Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
Loretta Lynn
#82. Our theory is simply this: a person counts as an asshole when, and only when, he systematically allows himself to enjoy special advantages in interpersonal relations out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that immunizes him against the complaints of other people.
Aaron James
#83. When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Tarthang Tulku
#84. I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.
Tina Yothers
#85. Remember, if you have a problem, it's your problem. Solve it. Don't blame other people. Don't burden people with your complaints. Ninety percent of the people you meet don't care about your troubles. The other 10 percent are glad you have them.
Lou Holtz
#86. One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do. I do think this is an area where journalism sometimes falls short. We describe a really grim situation but don't really explain to people what they can do about it.
Nicholas Kristof
#87. One nurse thought I was "brave." I think she was talking about my steely-eyed, grin-and-bear-it kind of attitude. There were no tears, no complaints from me - a total lack of affect. In a victim, it is courage and thus admirable; in a predator, it is a lack of humanity and instills fear.
M.E. Thomas
#88. Clearly, products for women are not as well scrutinized as products for men. It appears they never tested the implants in breast tissue and that they received decades of complaints from women. It's the kind of stuff that makes you want to scream!
Emily Martin
#89. I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time."
Richard Gere
#90. The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#91. Do not think that your crying and complaints can force Jesus to become sentimental and then give Himself out so cheaply.
T. B. Joshua
#92. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself. So August gave way to September and there were few complaints.
Clive Barker
#93. Crist noted that his office has received multiple fraud complaints in which potential buyers said they lost thousands of dollars. I don't know if we've seen anything of this exact nature before, .. We won't tolerate it.
Charlie Crist
#94. I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.
Norman Jewison
#95. Even if I built a 50,000-seater stadium and bought Ronaldinho, there'd still be complaints about crap hotdogs.
Simon Jordan
#96. When you fill life with mourning and complaints, your accomplishments will be a little lower than success.
Auliq Ice
#97. My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
Billy Corgan
#98. We have the best customer satisfaction record, based on Transportation Dept. statistics, of any airline in America, the fewest complaints filed per 100,000 passengers carried. So you're not just getting low fares, you're also getting wonderful customer service.
Herb Kelleher
#99. When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.
Oswald Chambers
#100. The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.
Thomas Brooks
