"Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?"
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"I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money."
"There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!"
"Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn't find anything to complain about."
"Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others."
"Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?"
"People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely."
"I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about Kim Kardashian, you're not going to accuse them of lecturing to you. If I can explore an intersection between pop culture and science literacy, then it generally will not come across as a lecture."
"Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]"
"There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are."
"Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment."
"Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others."
"I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair."
"I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything."
"Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}"
"The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all."
"To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once."
"Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it."
"The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on."
"I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them."