Pastoral Resources

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

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?

A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

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.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

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