“ Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone: Violets plucked the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again. ”
- John Fletcher- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ Brad Pitt, poor geezer, was blown up, thrown around, burned, slapped, frozen. But never a moan or a whine. Now that's what I call a real star. ”
- Guy Ritchie- Copy
“ While others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper, I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine. ”
- Barbara Gordon- Copy
“ Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it. ”
- Pierce Brosnan- Copy
“ Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. ”
- James Mcneill Whistler- Copy
“ Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. ”
- Anthony J. D’Angelo- Copy
“ The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ”
- Francis Jeffrey- Copy
“ Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine. ”
- Barbara Gordon- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ And then the whining schoolboy…, creeping like snail unwillingly to school. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. ”
- Joan Didion- Copy
“ They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. ”
- John Donne- Copy
“ I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty and eating bananas for breakfast. ”
- Edith Wharton- Copy
“ Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success… ”
- Og Mandino- Copy
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