Complaining Quotes

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? (George Wallace)
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. View quote
Jef Raskin
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. View quote
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. View quote
Randall Jarrell
There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different. View quote
Avicii
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. View quote
Bill Joy
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. View quote
Stephen Hawking
This is the true joy in life 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. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. (Davy Crockett)
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. View quote
Lynn Johnston
A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years! View quote
Cannonball Adderley
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. View quote
Martha Gellhorn
We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them. View quote
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Complaining that a comic is drunk is like going to a titty bar and complaining because your lapdancer is a communist. View quote
Doug Stanhope
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. View quote
Stephen Hawking
There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess. View quote
John Ruskin
Love is enough though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining. (William Morris)
The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers. View quote
John Dryden
I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness. View quote
Anthony Trollope
The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you. View quote
David Mellor
When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured. View quote
Rumi