Whining Quotes - Page 3

• Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

  Barbara Walters

  Hard Work, Quitting, Being There

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• It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Kings, Jobs, Carrie

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• I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Believe

  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s acceptance speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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• How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Men, Nfl

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• There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

  Renata Adler

  Philosophy, Littles, Cocktail Parties

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• The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Friendship, Horse, Sacrifice

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• Stop whining, start hustling.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Inspirational, Hustle, Inspiration

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• As a Republican, I have listened to Democrats talk about the only two times we won the White House in like 200 years that we stole both elections. I had to sit through Fahrenheit 9/11 and a lady was sobbing violently behind me about the election being stolen by George Bush and I patted her half way through and said, 'it's alright, it's alright. It's all a lie anyway.' Democrats have been whining for 16 years, they're still writing articles about how Bush stole the election in 2004 and 2000.

  Joe Scarborough

  Lying, Writing, Years

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Victim, Neighborhood

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

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• Part of the reason [Donald Trump] destroyed his Republican challengers is because they agree with him on issues. And he apparently struck a vein of entertainment among the Republican primary voters, so all they had left was kind of whining and insulting back and forth, as opposed to taking him on where I think a presidential election should.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Issues, Presidential

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There's no point whining about missed opportunities.

  Martin Schulz

  Opportunity, Missed Opportunity, No Point

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Someone who responds to "Please don't grope me" with whining and pouting isn't a friend. He's an asshole and a predator.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Predator, Pouting, Please

  "Gone From the Chapel". "Dear Prudence" with Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. March 22, 2016.

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• ...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Feet, Views

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• I've become a guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic.

  Billy Corgan

  Guy, Complaining, Neurotic

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• I'm trying to think about stuff like that: How can a show not be just a whining guy with a guitar.

  Justin Vernon

  Thinking, Guitar, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Day, night, late, early,
  At home, abroad, alone, in company,
  Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been
  To have her match'd; and having now provided
  A gentleman of princely parentage,
  Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,
  Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,
  Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man-
  And then to have a wretched puling fool,
  A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,
  To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love;
  I am too young, I pray you pardon me'!

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Sleep, Night

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1813). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Twenty-one Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.184

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• The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

  Nicholas Cresswell

  Government, Revolution, Slave

  Nicholas Cresswell (2007). “The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell”, Applewood Books

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• Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

  Michael Arrington

  Quitting, Cry, Hard

  Twitter post from Nov 27, 2011

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• Kyle Busch is going to get his ass whipped shortly I hope. He better sit his ass in his motor home or I’m going to come find him and he’s going to have to hold my watch because I’m going to whip his ass. He’s the biggest whining little piece of [expletive] I’ve ever seen in my whole life.

  Kevin Harvick

  Home, Watches, Pieces

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• In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

  Rupert Everett

  War, Army, Thinking

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• "Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty. There were at least three uncannily accurate Margaret Thatchers, their eyelids fatigued with condescension and their voices swooping and whining like dive-bombers.

  Clive James

  Voice, America, Giving

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

  Phil Gramm

  Loss, America, Complaining

  "Gramm: We need more leadership, less whining" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2008.

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• Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by a little piece of lead, like washing drying in the wind, like a whining of horses, like seed thrown to the birds, like an evening paper one has finished reading! Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.

  Louis Aragon

  Horse, Reading, Heart

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• That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

  Marc Maron

  Disappointment, People, Challenges

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.75, Spiegel & Grau

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• 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. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

  Renata Adler

  Sex, Philosophy, Loneliness

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