Gripe Quotes

#1. You can use your tongue to slander, to gripe, to scold, to nag, and to quarrel; or you can bring it under the control of God's Spirit and make it an instrument of blessing and praise.

Billy Graham

#2. Cultural indigestion, I tell you, the gripe in the bowels of your spirit.

Jeff VanderMeer

#3. He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. (after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can't hang with eagles.

Joel Osteen

#5. To my mind, those who can, do. Those who can't, gripe.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Joyce Meyer

#7. She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver ... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture ... They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.

Gene Kelly

#8. Most of us do not 'sculpt' our lives. We accept what comes our way, then we gripe about it.

Susan Jeffers

#9. It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Elvis Presley

#10. - Shush sweet baby, I said, so tired, and mixed her gripe water with whiskey and dill weed, but it did no good, so I seen now why lullabies was all about cradles falling from trees, oh dear, when the wind blows, down will come baby, whoops too bad, but at least it's quiet.

Kate Manning

#11. Kim's gripe with humans was nothing new. She, like the rest of the Guardians, put her life on the line every time she faced demons and was entitles to her own opinion. Sometimes I wish she would tall in love with a human. That would shut her up.

P.C. Cast

#12. As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

John Trumbull

#13. Along with my peers, I gripe about the increasing number of superhero films, and I'm sad that so many critics so uncritically use words like franchise, which should be reserved for your local Burger King.

David Edelstein

#14. The story is everything, so it always begins with a story. Research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment level varies, but in general, I'm writing about topics I find interesting, so I can't gripe too much.

Neal Stephenson

#15. Even her powders and face paint couldn't disguise the age lines and gripe lines that ran as deep as the railway tracks some said were bound to cross our mountain any day so.

Jane Yolen

#16. No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

Junior Seau

#17. When I write, there are times
not always
when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.

Paul McCartney

#18. Today I write,
riots with insite!
Tomorrow I read,
take the lead!
Sometimes I sleep, health to keep!
But for now I write,
and got no gripe!

Leslie Austin

#19. Well, I don't think that the Obama administration knows what's Jesus, what belongs to Jesus and what belongs to them. That's my big gripe. Apparently, he doesn't know. But then, that's because he's not a Christian. He's Muslim,

Christine O'Donnell

#20. My biggest gripe is still hope. In hell, hope is a really really bad habit. Like smoking cigarettes or fingernail biting. Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break. Yes, I know the word tenacious. I'm 13 and disillusioned. And a little lonely.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on.

Bob Losure

#22. I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.

Abraham Lincoln

#23. The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!

Zig Ziglar

#24. Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Sophocles

#25. Certainly, we need to support the communities around the country, and we do.

Jim Walsh

#26. Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

Billy Bob Thornton

#27. Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.

Fred Kavli

#28. It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

Ha-Joon Chang

#29. She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

Jodi Picoult

#30. I long to look at my holiday season with eyes that see the Christ in Christmas.

Ann Marie Stewart

#31. The louder you bellyache, the longer your stomach will hurt.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. A childish mind griped to unexpected changes.

Toba Beta

#33. If you are man enough to bring a life into this world, then you should me man enough to stick around to see how they turned out.

Kellin Quinn

#34. I am not looking for a "perfect" man. Only one who matches me on an emotional, spiritual, sexual, and intellectual level.

Amanda Mosher

#35. I'll never retire as long as I live - that's like retiring from life! I'll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you're in good health, living is exciting on its own.

Bel Kaufman