Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, 'I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress.' And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, 'Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without.' At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, 'Yes, you are well and whole but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty.'
Quotes about complacence (2 Quotes)
There's still a great deal of uncertainty. We've got a pretty worrying international situation. There is a decline in confidence in business leadership based on a few bad apples, and a certain complacence about the economic data.