Complaining Quotes - page 7

After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy. (Mika Brzezinski)
I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling. View quote
Mona Sutphen
Complaining is an insult to God. View quote
Monica Johnson
The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining! View quote
Pixie Lott
I got into politics because I was tired of complaining. View quote
Patrick Murphy
You spend most of your time as an actor unemployed, so you're not going to hear me complaining that I haven't had a day off in three weeks. View quote
Sendhil Ramamurthy
While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market. View quote
Zac Goldsmith
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldnt necessarily be good. View quote
James Gleick
The whole society is obsessed.... I'm not complaining - I'm just saying, "Don't be too impressed with me. Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress." I only wear the expensive clothes because I get them free and I'm too lazy to go out and look for my own. View quote
Salma Hayek
I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!' View quote
Moby
I think politicians complaining about the media is like sailors complaining about the weather. (Diane Abbott)
Stop complaining about the price of your gas. Be thankful your car doesn't run on bottled water. View quote
David A. Ridenour
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away. View quote
Samuel Johnson
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? View quote
Karl Marlantes
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. View quote
Seneca
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. View quote
Joni Mitchell
It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short. View quote
Joseph Addison
We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force. View quote
Laurence Sterne
In response to Leibniz's ontological query "Why is there something rather than nothing?" Morgenbesser answered "If there were nothing you'd still be complaining!" View quote
Sidney Morgenbesser
"In Nigeria I'm not black...We don't do race in Nigeria. We do ethnicity a lot, but not race. My friends here don't really get it. Some of them sound like white Southerners from 1940. They say, 'Why are black people complaining about race? Racism doesn't exist!' View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What I say to my gente [people] is to hang on, and to remember who they are, be proud of who they are, and keep talking. And keep complaining, and just don't ever - don't give up. That's always been my motto anyway. My motto has always been "persevere" - perseverancia. And that's what we need to do. (Rita Moreno)
I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing. View quote
Amy Tan
I will never stop complaining. View quote
Margaret Cho
The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it. View quote
Susan Faludi
Clearly, a great crime had been committed against this boy; yet nobody who had had a hand in it - the judge, the jury, the prosecutor, the complaining witness, the policemen and jailers - felt any responsibility about it, because they were not acting as men, but as officials. View quote
Albert Jay Nock