Top 135 Complaining Quotes

Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, ‘Why don’t we just demonstrate?’ The Whitney was the first.

If you are everywhere, then you’ve sacrificed the very thing that you are complaining about, which is your own privacy.

I did have a constituent four or five years ago – she never liked me. So, she called, I returned her call, and she was complaining about something, and she said: ‘And why do you always use green? I think it’s narcissistic.’ And I said, ‘Well, ma’am, everyone has to have a gimmick, and that’s my gimmick.’

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There’s no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.

Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!

I’m not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It’s a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

The public doesn’t want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.

The black community has always complained about abuse from cops. It’s nothing new. But now, more people are seeing visual examples of what they’ve been complaining about. That’s one thing that has changed over time.

I was waking up at 5 A.M. when I was 9 working. I know that I’ll only have to work harder if I want to make it to where I want to be. But I’m definitely not complaining.

We’re all complaining about diversity in Hollywood, but we’ve got to address the colorism within the black community of Hollywood first.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Am I complaining about my deafness? No, I am not.

In Delhi, where I grew up, commerce is brusque. You don’t ask each other how your day has been. You might not even smile. I’m not saying this is ideal – it’s how it is. You’re tied together by a transaction. The customer doesn’t tremble before complaining about how cold his food is.

You do get a lot of people complaining if you don’t do songs they have come to expect. I have to be careful about fulfilling that side of things and keeping it fresh for other people who have come to see the show.

I remember my dad always complaining about getting pulled over. I remember the differences in school systems. I remember seeing police officers, not knowing their names, and knowing that they were there not to protect us, not to serve us, but to watch us.

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn’t think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

It’s just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I’m very lucky, and I’m not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we’ve always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

I’m perfectly happy complaining, because it’s cathartic, and I’m perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime – not programming.

Women are always complaining about men’s fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

The days are long. I’m not complaining, but it’s a lot of work doing a single-camera comedy.

I was pretty naive about how hard it would be to get out from under the family name. Not that I’m complaining.

The group of guys I came up with in the 1990s were very innovative. I remember some of the older guys were complaining about how the music had changed, and they were being left behind. I didn’t want to be one of those guys who sat around and complained because they weren’t growing and evolving.

I was never considered ‘a marketable hero’, and never got promoted to that category. I am not complaining – I found another niche – comedy – which is equally enjoyable and brought me as much comfort as I need.

I sang and played keyboard, so I was virtually a statue at the back of the stage. I’m not complaining about that; I enjoyed that role.

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck – and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee – or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

You can’t blame things for being dark if the light bulbs aren’t working. So we’re complaining about the darkness when the bulbs aren’t working, and the Bible says that we are the light of the world.

Anyone who faults Romney or Obama or any public figure for demanding quote approval is missing the point. The journalists were no abused weaklings here. They made a bargain for access to these newsworthy figures that they thought was in their favor – they’re only complaining because they got caught.

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.

We are millennials, and we love complaining more than any other generation.

Of course, there are races that have been boring but overall it’s been really good so I’m not complaining.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to be in a warm office every day. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining because I know how lucky I am to be playing football for a living. The positives by far outweigh the negatives.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

I was always complaining that there weren’t enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I’m not at all complaining.

In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.

I’m not going to get into complaining publicly about fouls. Just not going to do that.

When people see a talented girl, it calls to mind the very rare breed of women who have managed to succeed. If I were a dude with the exact same voice, band and songs, I doubt they’d compare me to Sheryl Crow. But hey, I’m not complaining. Big fish, small pond.

Everybody complaining about their average and all that, but I wanted be in there where I can help my team no matter what situation. And a lot of days, I didn’t have it.

It’s frustrating that my body can’t do what my mind wants it to do sometimes. But worrying or complaining about it isn’t going to fix anything.

I turn complaining into music! I’m thinking I might have invented a new style. I call it ‘cantankerous rock.’

Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful.

You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can’t get through a 480 page magazine every month.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.

One actor in my life is enough, and that’s me. With actors, it’s too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don’t interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.

When you’re on TV in America, the girls love you. I’m not complaining.

I want to work with happy, good people, who have a positive outlook. Not those who are grumpy, complaining and throw diva behaviour.

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

But honestly, it’s pretty weird; there are girls who’d do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don’t know what it is, but really, when you’re on national TV in America the girls love you. They all want you! And I’m not complaining!

Who would I be if I complained about having a father that provided for me? Who would I be if I was complaining about having a father who loved me? That would make me a real jerk.

I don’t want to adhere to any particular image. I have tried to bring in variety to my characters. But then, only a few actors have managed to earn this tag of a romantic hero. Many have aspired to get such a label. So I am not complaining.