Complaining Quotes

• I sometimes question whether journalists here are being asked to take up roles that are not ours. I get calls from people complaining that their telephone is out of order or that electricity is cut, and I sometimes wonder why don't they call the telephone or electric company.

  

  Pepe Eliaschev
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Crazy
  • Basketball
  • Complaining

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Time
  • Angry

• I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Military

• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Up
  • Always
  • Blame

• Who would I be if I complained about having a father that provided for me? Who would I be if I was complaining about having a father who loved me? That would make me a real jerk.

  

  John David Washington
  • Real
  • Father
  • Complaining

• This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.

  

  George Karl
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Should

• For me, for a very long time, I was in denial because when you say you're sad or you're overwhelmed, we consider it whining or complaining. People say, 'Count your blessings,' and it's like, 'Yeah, I am, but I'm still sad. Something is wrong with me.' I had to acknowledge it.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Time
  • Great
  • Man

• I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have. And then my question to that is always, 'Well, how much of yourself are you putting out there?'

  

  Cote de Pablo
  • Question
  • Complaining

• I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Politics
  • Tired
  • Complaining

• Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • May
  • Remember

• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Society
  • Complaining

• Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Quality
  • Sensible

• It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a bargain.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Long
  • Money
  • Complaining

• I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.

  

  Moby
  • Complaining
  • Realized
  • Hardship

• One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.

  

  Bojana Novakovic
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Why
  • Question
  • Stubborn

• Between the mysteries of death and lifeThou standest, loving, guiding,- not explaining;We ask, and Thou art silent,- yet we gaze,And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining;No crushing fate, no stony destiny!Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Art
  • Death
  • Rest

• I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Running

• Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Crying

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