Complaining Quotes - Page 22

Russians don't complain, usually.

So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesión. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.

So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

I've had boyfriends complain, "Wait, you don't want to see me?" No, I don't. I just want to hang out by myself. So screw off.

The truth is, I've made about 30 movies in 30 years, and I've been criticized for 30 years for not making more movies.

I can see criticizing, complaining, protesting - anything but choosing not to vote. Too many people died for us not to vote.

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

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

When people are not given an option by some secret scoring system, it's very hard to complain, so they often don't even know that they've been victimized.

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

There is often times when I'm in a bar or after a show, and a woman just grabs my head and shoves it into her cleavage, or grabs my ass, or something like that which - don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining, but it's just interesting. It's just interesting that that occurs.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

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.

One problem I have with talking about myself in the context of class divisiveness is that I can be - and indeed have been - used by others to demonstrate its absence and that it's only a matter of hard work to move upward socially. After all, how could I complain about anything, if the retort is: "But look where you got to? It can't be all that bad." But this is nonsense as an argument quite aside from its empirical absurdity because no single case can invalidate a statistical claim.

You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.

Do not quarrel ... with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with.

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.

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.

You have to pretend that you're not bothered by your record leaked early. So that's the tack that I'm taking. It's like if you're working in a store and people come and openly shoplift from you, and you're not allowed to say anything about it. Instead, you're supposed to smile and go, "Hope you enjoy that!" I'm not going to complain about it, I don't get to make the rules. It's just really funny how that works.

People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.