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With grumble, nobody changes anything, even himself.
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
Don't Moan About
Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.
Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.
Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.
Still whining, Louis!
I'm not in the being-annoyed business.
Irritated by the fact that the rules that always applied to children never seemed to apply to grown-ups at all (despite the fact that they were the ones who enforced them).
Not giving a fuck and not being able to give a fuck.
If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!
Complaint is a prayer to the devil.
I can't even say the word, it's too early in the day to get upset.
Be groovy or leave, man
What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression ...
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today?
Hurrying, dragging, falling, crying, calling out names hopefully and hopelessly.
Complainers detest each other.
A petty one, but most resentments are. And one that for its smallness I felt obliged to repress. For that matter, that is the nature of resentment, the objection we cannot express. It is silence more than the complaint itself that makes the emotion so toxic, like poisons the body won't pee away.
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.
Those who complain most are most to be complained of.
Complaining is like sitting in a rocking chair. You can get lots of motion, but you ain't going anywhere," Lacy Dawn said.
about to turn to frustration,
Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.
Don't complain about ANYTHING, unless you're prepared to do something about it
Complains are like the clouds that give no rain no matter how thick they gather.
Don't get mad, get even,
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.
I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.
REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
I'm whining. It's unattractive, but I find I'm powerless to stop
Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.
When we complain, we often project onto others the dissatisfaction of how we're dealing with our own lives.
Unless we speak praise, we consistently speak poison. Unless we are intentional about giving God glory throughout the day, our days unintentionally give way to grumbling.
throwing stones through the windows of the Riddle House. They
Busying herself with inconsequential tasks.
It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.
The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams ... never for reality.
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
One thing I don't like is complaints.
Some of us are busy doing things; some of us are busy complaining.
glared an upset glare
Don't complain, remain and sustain
A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.
Words cannot express how pissed off I am. I am going to have to invent a new word to explain how angry I am. Karflagled. I am so karflagled off at you right now!" "See,
He made a noise of disgruntlement. It's a bloody picnic. Sit. Eat. Shut up.
To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.
Resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.
Don't complain, don't explain.
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
I'm not complaining - Women complaining
What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
passing insults back and forth, as if they were biscuits.
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
My real dissatisfaction is with my dissatisfaction. How dare I be so discontent? How dare I? Or being discontent why cannot I shut up about it?
A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.
Yet moaning and wailing was not my way. I had never complained, for who cares for complaints? If something is wrong, one does something.
Those who complain much get little, those who complain little get much.
There is nothing more tedious than a constant round of gaiety.
tittering on the brink of a war.
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
When we feel that old spirit of complaining start to bubble up in our hearts, we need to remind ourselves to take time to thank God for His blessings.
All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)
howling alternately
In the weak, lack of strength to defend oneself passes over into complaining. This can be observed in children when they are mistreated by bigger children; but the best always stay obstinately and defiantly silent.
There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.
Trying to pretend to oneself that a life of constant self frustration was in fact a great spiritual attainment.
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.
understanding they in their turn have played on them. Our soul sometimes takes its own revenge: What we see and hear when agitated by anger we do not see as it is:
Sit up, and no whining."
"I don't whine."
"Rarely," he agreed. But when you do, you make up for the lack of quantity with quality.
Identify what frustrates you and find a way to fix it!
Where there is mistrust and misunderstanding there is always a complain to arise.
Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.
Expressing criticism of society is not being a grouch.
Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.
I've had to whine for everything I've ever really wanted.
Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.
Be annoyed and sin not"
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.
an incantation of hatred.
Grievance into a succinct and pithy phrase, while mobilizing the people to combat it. Our slogan
Of a little thing a little displeaseth.
Don't whine. Find the positive in difficult situations.
Bein' cooped up indoors. The little finger waggled briefly.
Aggressiveness, complaints, pressures, drama and polemics can wipe out a favor or a promise and stain a generous deed.
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
Resentment-why, it is purification; it is a most stinging and painful consciousness!
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.
No whining. No complaining. No excuses.
Deaf rage that hears no leader.
Concentration is sometimes mistaken for grumpiness.
Complaining is a lot like talking, only more constructive.
A culture of complaint. Of bitch, bitch, bitch... Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good.
If there were nothing you'd still be complaining!
crying, and go in the toilet bowl
Angst is the indulgence of the middle class.
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
Discontent has a creative force in it.