Whine Quotations

I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

I think that there are a lot of things that come along with being a musician, but I don't want to whine about them. I don't want to complain about my job.

I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

A lot of children can go back and look at their childhood and find reasons why it wasn't perfect. But why whine about something no one can fix? You deal with it.

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.

We're fine. When you face adversity, you don't whine or complain. You've got to move on.

We won't be successful in a playoff game like that. We'll take the win and learn from our mistakes. It's easy to whine and cry. But we'll whine and cry our way right out of the playoffs if we do that.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Greg is a throwback. Believe it or not, there are still kids out there who will not whine about blisters and sore feet and sore knees. Greg's a tough-as-nails kind of guy.

I think it was big of us to come out and not pout and whine and put our heads down. We skated and competed and played exactly the kind of hockey we've played all year. That's encouraging.

Looking at it right from the top, it looks like we should have switched spots. But I'm not going to sit and whine about it because there are a lot of teams sitting home that would love to be in our position.

Let me tell you, I've never heard a man whine more than Jason Mamoa getting knocked around by little ol' me.

I wasn't going to wreck him. A couple of times I had him in compromising positions and I let him go. I didn't want to win that way. Jimmie understands that's just short-track racing. There are a lot of guys who don't. ...When you have a guy who understands and doesn't whine and carry on and complain, that makes it more fun.

Whining's unattractive, even when your whine sounds like Kenneth Branagh eating frozen strawberries with a silver fork.

We can't complain and whine about where we're at. We've got to go forward.

Well, ... we're not going to whine about it. What good does that do? You can find ways to say, 'Woe is me.' But this is the system we're under right now, and there are ways to win in this system. You can do it through the Amateur Draft. You can do it through the Rule 5 draft. You can get lucky with a kid from Venezuela.

To lose my little brother is hard, ... But I know he'd want me to play. I know my brother wouldn't want me to sit back, mope and whine and get into that state you can when you have a family member pass away.

When the U.S. wins, the coalition cheers, but when it loses, they whine and attack the dispute settlement process imposed by NAFTA.

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours

You're not going to whine after this ride like Lisa Marie Presley, are you?

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.

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.

It's hard for me to listen to any actors whine or moan about anything acting-related because look at the world. We really have nothing to complain about. Just to be working is a blessing.

I'm not one of those coaches who cries about officiating. You can't whine about a play that happened two plays ago. You have to focus on what's in front.

I'm not one to whine about that kind of stuff and I don't think there was anything to it but he better keep his head up next time. Those things come around.

I had some issues, obviously. But one thing I cannot stand and never will be able to understand is coaches who put blame on officials and whine about officials. I will never do that. That's just not how I'm built.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

Nobody deserves to have their personal life pried into like I did and no one deserves to hear me whine about it so much.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.