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“Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness”
Robert Burton
“[According to an official statement,] the complaints are from religious preachers who simply want publicity. Marilyn Manson isn't against God, but against organized religion, ... are just like any other heavy metal show, with kids dressed in black with painted faces. They're not dangerous.”
Marilyn Manson
“A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.”
Francesco Guicciardini
“It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.”
Dennis Miller
“This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction”
Henry David Thoreau
“Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey”
Denis Diderot
“To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike”
Samuel Johnson
“Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.”
Alfred Adler
“The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.”
Irving Howe
