Quotes on Complaining

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.

If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to breathe in and to breathe out. We cannot be alive if we are not empty. Emptiness is impermanence, it is change. We should not complain about impermanence, because without impermanence, nothing is possible.

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very poisonous. It's hideously boring to live with you. You're always grumpy, complaining, you find everyone bad, good for nothing. Tell me frankly, Count, did you ever speak well of anyone?

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.