Complaints Quotes

• 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
  • Country
  • Heard
  • Function

• Complaints are prayers to the devil.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Devil
  • Prayers
  • Complaints

• There are more class-action complaints against companies over overtime pay than there are about harassment.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Action
  • Companies
  • Harassment

• To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Suffering
  • Lessons
  • Complaints

• Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

  

  William James
  • Evil
  • Worry
  • Add

• The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reading
  • Can Do
  • Complaints

• Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.

  

  Lisa See
  • Words
  • Sad
  • Ungrateful

• I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Real
  • Money
  • High

• Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Winning
  • Awards
  • Nashville

• I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Taken
  • Path
  • Chosen

• When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Equal
  • Arise

• Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Interfere
  • Judgmental
  • Disrespectful

• Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

  

  William Feather
  • Compliment
  • Complaints

• The thing I hear about a lot is when people over-sharpen their pencil with a single-blade pocket-sharpener and then when they put the pencil to the page, their tip breaks and pencil points always break irregularly. It always gets all jagged and you have to refresh the point. That's a common complaint.

  

  David Rees
  • People
  • Common
  • Break

• Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Dancing
  • Complaining
  • Pedestal

• We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.

  

  Joseph Brant
  • Tired
  • Complaints
  • Redress

• Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you hear of its sorrows.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Hear
  • Sorrows

• Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Audience
  • Members
  • Rifles

• When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Life
  • Human
  • Vanity

• When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Money
  • Story
  • Boss

• I have also registered complaints against errant taxi drivers. Although they have promised action, let’s see how they’re going to follow it up. But overall it’s a very useful page for commuters.

  

  Arin Paul
  • Drivers
  • Complaints

• When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Careers
  • Asthma
  • Sportsman

• My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • World
  • Records
  • Litany

• As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Mind
  • Joy
  • Vision

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