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Quotes About Whining

Comradeship always sets the cultural tone at the lowest possible level, accessible to everyone. It cannot tolerate discussion; in the chemical solution of comradeship, discussion immediately takes on the color of whining and grumbling. It becomes a mortal sin. Comradeship admits no thoughts, just mass feelings of the most primitive sort
~ Sebastian Haffner
Didn't have much choice. Couldn't handle the whining." "She whines?" "Not her, but a teacup poodle." "Canines have teacup poodle shifters now?
~ Shelly Laurenston
They stared at each other for several seconds. Finally, Mitch said, "Thanks for your high level of concern." "It doesn't quite live up to your high level of whining.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Above the snap and pop of the fire, the wind howled, prowling around the inn, snooping at the windows and whining at the door. The candle flames quivered in the draft, melting the wax into strange shapes.
~ Mary Downing Hahn
stood frozen as the robots lumbered by, joints clanking and servos whining.
~ Ernest Cline
He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That'll teach me to go hide in a temple.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Are you telling me in your own gentle way to stop whining? Yes. I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot. I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you. I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
His ward upstairs was full of whining old military retirees too afraid to die.
~ Bob Mayer
Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.
~ Brandon Sanderson
All neuroses are merely adult forms of whining and pouting.
~ Steven D. Farmer
I'm a comedian and there are a lot of things I'm still learning. I love one liners because I love smart jokes. I also don't like complaining about society or whining about my life on stage.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Don't confuse a kid whining for a treat with the argument of a rigorous, logical mind, he had said, as logical as ever.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
There's nothing more boring than listening to successful adults whine about how mistreated they were as children, is there?
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I think people like to have something to have a moan about.
~ Sean Lock
Whining makes you angry, and anger makes you bitter.
~ Kim Heacox
But it is America that has taken FWPs to a whole new level. It is only when such great material wealth combines with stunning spiritual poverty, reaching not only the upper classes but across once-aspirational middle and now even lower classes, that the true obnoxiousness of the FWP is evident. The art of the whine has never been more perfected.
~ George Takei
official irony, was said to be "in charge" of [a] seething, whining, weakly hive, impotent to help itself, but strong in its power to cripple, thwart, and annoy'.
~ Niall Ferguson
Have to do what? One-upmanship. I kill one, you have to kill two. The big bad hunter flexing his muscles. It's annoying. You are not going to whine simply because I have superior hunting skills, are you? He rubbed her knuckles along his jaw, wanting the contact. Needing to show her what he felt too deeply to say. It did not occur to me you would whine.
~ Christine Feehan
It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that." As if that gives them certain rights. It's simply a whine, just no more than a whine. "I find that offensive": it has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.
~ Stephen Fry
When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
~ D. B. Sweeney
To my mind, those who can, do. Those who can't, gripe.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Give me needy emotional whining bullshit. Flash. Give me self-absorbed egocentric twaddle. Christ.
~ Chuck Palahniuk