Quotes with complaints

  • Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

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  • Henry David Thoreau If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbara Kruger I have no complaints, except for the world.
    Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ben Goldacre More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail, abuse, smears and formal complaints with forged documentation.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Billy Corgan My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Sir William Temple Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Anita Hill The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
    To make a Great an Honest Hive.
    T'enjoy the World's Conveniences,
    Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease,
    Without great Vices, is a vain
    Eutopia seated in the Brain.
    The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Ben Rattray There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
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  • Samuel Johnson To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Horace What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • John Milton When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Wallace Stevens Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Denis Diderot Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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