"Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that."
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"Have an attitude of gratidude and you will have more to be grateful for; have a complaining spirit and you will attract more to complain about."
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining."
"The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark."
"Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him."
"When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem."
"If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level."
"No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used."
"every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain"
"What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves."
"He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
"A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him."
"When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy."
"I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet."
"You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain."
"The French complain of everything, and always."
"Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses."
"He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate."
"He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering."
"I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception."