Whining Quotations

I have no problem with people feeling a bit down - crikey, you only have to walk down the road to find enough reasons to fall into a depressive coma - but I do have a problem with whining about it.

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.

For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

A lot of times I think the cast members, the lead characters in a show really set the tone for the show. On some shows, the stars of the show will just be whining and complaining and spending the whole time texting their boyfriends on their Blackberries, and there's just no attention given to the work.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

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.

(With this deal) the major labels have stopped whining about absolute control and embraced a new business model. Secure delivery, the majors' magic bullet, is overrated; legitimately making music available is the strongest weapon in the fight against music theft.

Never take yourself too seriously.

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

Whining is anger through a small opening.

When you coach against him, you feel like he's getting all the calls because he's working the refs so hard. It seems like he's always whining to the refs and falling on the ground, and he's got the clock operator in his back pocket. But it's fun to play and coach against Coach Marcum's team, because you know it's going to be a battle.

If we continue with our current patterns of spending above our incomes, by 2013 the U.S. foreign liabilities could be as high as 75 percent of GDP and an increasing fraction of such liabilities will be in the form of equity. So, let us stop whining about the dangers of unfriendly foreigners owning our firms and assets and get used to it.

I believe the checklist has been met, ... while whining that their competitors need more regulation. My feeling is that the days of that kind of lobbying are numbered.

He's definitely the toughest kid on the team, and, you know, he won't let you know about it. He's not moping around, he's not complaining or whining about any type of injury. He's injured all the time pretty much and he's really been toughing it out. All of last year, we find out now that he was battling through all this stuff.

Humans are creatures of waste, so it is our duty to minimize our consumption and to ensure that we, as individuals are worthy of the waste that is created. A dull whining paranoiac who is a model of thrift but of little else is more symbolic of waste than an interesting and creative materialist.

I think anybody that just points to the patent office being overloaded and incompetent is whining over spilled milk. Reality is not going to change overnight.

I wish we had an administration in Washington that wasn't an appeasing, liberal, whining administration in the '90s that allowed the terrorists to build up the way they built up.

I think this is a final decision for London. I imagine there could be some whining and complaining, but this was so definitive. The fact that they wouldn't even take a second vote at all is, I would say, a bad indication.

We've turned into a whining society.

We're bringing AC/DC-like riffs, not a lot of whining like some rockers do. We don't like to bring rock down with sad stories, we just want to bring it -- that's what rock is about.

We were able to prove that we're not a bunch of whining school folks. I'm gratified.

Stop whining; start enjoying. And when you look back at the past, make sure you're smiling.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

We're not looking to go whining to the EU or the DOJ for anything,

We didn't go in whining and crying; we went in with some proposals on how to fix it. They seemed attentive and listening, and wanting to find out what the problems were so they could fix them.

There is nothing the Democratic leaders can do. It's the Democratic activists who are whining and complaining who could help themselves by shutting their mouths. They're distracting attention away from what the election will be and should be about - the president and Congress. They're just giving the press something to write about.

There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.

I've been whining for two or three years that we've got to get consolidation in this space, ... In the bubble you had way too many companies go public. All these companies turned out to be features and not companies. Now part of the driver is a realization by the big companies that this is a way to capture growth.

The ones that are over here whining and crying, all they're doing is proving they're not winners, they're whiners. Most of everybody over there has never had anything to do with the military service.

Coach is going to have our backs, good or bad, and I think guys appreciate that. It feels good that your coach is sticking up for you, letting them know how you feel. But at the same time, we need to just play the game instead of complaining and whining about the calls.

This is Texas. We don't have Walter Cronkite and Ted Kennedy whining about their back yards,

There will be no whining or complaining from us. We had our opportunity. We didn't take care of business. The committee does a fine job every year. We're not going to complain or talk about any teams that got in.

There will be no whining or complaining from us.

This is your homework assignment. From this moment on the B.S. stops. The whining stops. Be nice. Do three nice things every day. Cowboy up.

It's the same for everyone, we all have to play it so why whine about it and why not just get on with it and play. I was happy to see everyone whining about it because I knew that they weren't going to win.

It's tragic for some kids in that district who maybe haven't had a chance to play. But if you say bad things about them, then you come off as whining or crying. We'll just do the best we can with what we have.

The nice thing about Dow is they weren't whining about the hurricanes. It's operational issue. They took it on the chin, versus other (companies) who whine about it and treat it like a one-time issue.

That's racin. It's nothing whining and crying can do anything about. We actually got to the front on a track that I honestly didn't think I'd be able to pass anybody on. I kind of surprised myself. I'm sorry for all of my guys and everything. The NORA championship, we're pretty happy about that. We still got that wrapped up so that's something to smile about. Hopefully, we'll go to the Race of Champions next weekend and see if we can get a top run up there.

The seven-month deadline is real tough. I've heard enough whining from debtors' attorneys that my guess is that this provision is going to present problems.

I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

I had to do something. (Neil) said, 'Your guys are running our guys.' I told him, in the playoffs, that's the way it'll be. You better stop whining and get used to it. The farther you go in the playoffs, the rougher it gets.

Instead of being happy and celebrating the Israeli departure from Gaza, they are whining and crying, ... This will not help them build a future Palestinian state. What will the Israelis say if they are asked to make any more sacrifices? I don't know, but they may think it's not worth it if this is the result.

I didn't know what to expect. We had a horrible week of practice and we had little injuries here, some sickness and the kids were whining a bit. We had some brutal practices last Thursday and Friday.

I can't stand whining.

Stop whining, start hustling.

I don't think anybody was looking for the penalties. I said it before ... the first team that adjusts is going to be the winner. You end up with a ton of scoring chances, a ton of special teams and you're going to have to get better and you're going to have to adjust. Whining about it isn't going to do anything. It's not going to go away.

I don't want to come off that I'm whining about the situation, but I was disappointed. I've always regarded this as the tradition of a school.

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? He sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whining low, I'm so lonesome I could cry.

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

Whining isn't a scalable solution.

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

There's no point whining about missed opportunities.

These kids are a lot more intense this year. We don't have the complaining and whining that we had the past couple of years. We have very strong leadership in place and the kids just line up and do whatever is asked of them because they don't want to let their teammates down. I think their work ethic is going to pay off over the course of the season.

All I'd heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machine-gun fire and distant German voices.

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

Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither...

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

There's no problem so big that whining won't make it worse.

The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.

Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Listening to the liberals, you'd think that the 1980s were the worst period since the Great Depression, filled with suffering and despair. I don't know about you, but I'm getting awfully tired of the whining voices from the White House these days. They're claiming there was a decade of greed and neglect, but you and I know better than that. We were there.

So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.

You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'

No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.

However, our task is far from over. Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Listening to the liberals, you'd think that the 1980's were the worst period since the Great Depression, filled with suffering and despair. I don't know about you, but I'm getting awfully tired of the whining voices from the White House these days. They're claiming there was a decade of greed and neglect, but you and I know better than that. We were there. (RNC Annual Gala, Feb. 3, 1994)

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

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

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

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

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.