Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Walcott

… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

Rita Dove

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

Rush Limbaugh

They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.

Ralph Abernathy

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

Sojourner Truth

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

Jesse Jackson

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

Ethel Waters

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

Mary J. Blige

I do consider myself part of black history.

Morgan Freeman

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Chris Christie

The fact is that, once you are the person - and Ms.[Hillary] Clinton is the person who injected this type of commentary [bigot] into this race [2016] - once you inject that type of commentary into this race, you can't then sit back and start complaining about it or have some of your handmaidens in the media complain about it.

Cher

Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.

Charles Goodyear

I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

Benjamin Hoff

Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.

Benjamin Franklin

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

Avicii

There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.

Billy Eichner

I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain.

David Mitchell

Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.

Paul Ellis

We've actually had complaints about dogs pooping on Liberty Bridge.

Chris Swecker

We have seen a five-fold increase in our caseload since 2000, ... We went from 4,000 complaints a year, from 4,000 referrals a year to 17,000. And we think that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Mark Foster

We have no complaints with bottom-line earnings growth in what we've seen so far. The economy is going to hold together, earnings growth is going to hold together, the Fed's going to stop raising rates and that will give the market an opportunity to move forward.

Laura Stromberg

What they're complaining about is the law. It's not fair. We're not happy about it. But it's the law.

Patrick Burns

We're satisfied with it. I have no complaints.

Nigel Worthington

The referee was spot on and I've got no complaints. You can't react the way Darren reacted towards the referee. If it's for foul and abusive language, then I support the referee's decision 100 per cent. There's an internal disciplinary situation that will be put in place.

John Linehan

There evidently were no complaints before this; he just collapsed.

Keith Reynolds

There were complaints from just about everybody in the electrical end of things to the governor.

Christine Walsh

This is the single issue we've had most complaints about in my 8 1/2 years of being here.