“ The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ”
- Ronald Firbank- Copy
“ To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. ”
- Piers Brendon- Copy
“ Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. ”
- Prince Philip- 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
“ The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ”
- Francis Jeffrey- 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
“ 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
“ 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- 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
“ 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
“ 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
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