Typically, we get ANNOYED when our spouses complain. We get defensive. But, really, when your spouse complains, he or she is giving you wonderful information about what WOULD make him or her FEEL loved.

Don't SIT there and COMPLAIN. Rub your HANDS TOGETHER and FIGURE out what to do.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too MUCH of myself, I complain that they do not EVEN think of themselves.

When I have DIFFICULTIES, I will not COMPLAIN.

There is a PROFOUND hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ETHNIC and religious minorities in their MIDST, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the WORLD.

I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years OLD. I don't BLAME or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, EMPLOYEES, gas prices, or any of the EXTERNAL things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my RESPONSE to these things.

I would never complain about my LIFE, even THOUGH I really would like to have a MATE.

He who has provoked the lash of WIT, cannot COMPLAIN that he smarts from it.

American political elites feel very empowered to CRITICIZE the American intelligence community for not doing enough when they feel in danger, and as SOON as we've made them feel SAFE again, they feel equally empowered to COMPLAIN that we're doing too MUCH.

People like to TALK more than they like to act. They like to SIT there and complain and vent. SOMEHOW they think that changes things, when it doesn't.

There is pressure, and I would never COMPLAIN about that, but as PLAYERS we PUT pressure on ourselves all the time. That's one THING I won't miss when I finally STOP playing.

Men do really DUMB things. We see WEAPONS of mass destruction where there are none. We over-emphasize sports. We place athletic achievement AHEAD of academic achievement. We SPOIL and pamper child athletes and then complain when they act SPOILED and pampered as adults.

Maturity is the ABILITY to reap WITHOUT APOLOGY and not complain when things don't go WELL.

It's become SOMETHING of a ritual - every YEAR, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how SHALLOW it is, GIVEN what Google really knows about what the world is up to.

'Shun security,' I ADVISE aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are STUCK. 'Get disoriented. MAYBE your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing ENOUGH. Your enemy is comfort.'