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

• 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

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

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reading
  • Can Do
  • Complaints

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

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Equal
  • Arise

• 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

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

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Interfere
  • Judgmental
  • Disrespectful

• 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

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

  

  William Feather
  • Compliment
  • Complaints

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Ultimately, all our complaints are directed against God.

  

  Woodrow M. Kroll
  • Complaints
  • Directed
  • Ultimately

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Joseph Brant
  • Tired
  • Complaints
  • Redress

• Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.

  

  Walter Wykes
  • Knows
  • Issues
  • Position

• 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

• Any small business owner wears many hats. We New View Window Cleaning are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Window
  • Cleaning
  • Salesman

• 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

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