Quotes of Whining - somelinesforyou

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

- Shirley Chisholm

“ It's like one guitar and a whole lot of complaining. ”

- Rachel Bilson

“ Everybody's looking for each other, not complaining. ”

- James White

“ Those who complain most are most to be complained of. ”

- Matthew

“ The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. ”

- Unknown

“ The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ”

- Ronald Firbank

“ To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. ”

- Unknown

“ To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. ”

- Piers Brendon

“ Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. ”

- Prince Philip

“ I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. ”

- Joe Walsh

“ Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth. ”

- Judd Rose

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

- Francis Jeffrey

“ Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. ”

- Robert Burns

“ And then the whining schoolboy…, creeping like snail unwillingly to school. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is not uncommon to find oneself thinking such thoughts as "I can't stand this" or "If only I didn't have to do this." As the psychologist Albert Ellis notes, such thoughts frequently involve whining. In essence, we are acting like babies and whining about things "not being fair… ”

- John D. Bransford and Barry S. Stein

“ A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. ”

- Earl of Kent

“ The industry makes billions as a result of my existence and I get no respect and I get no airplay. I really get treated badly in the business. I really do. I'm not whining. These are just facts that I have to live with everyday. It's not easy to go to bed every night knowing that. ”

- Chubby Checker

“ The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge… ”

- Renata Adler

“ My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault-finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more. ”

- Og Mandino
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