Top 25 Quotes About Carping
#1. One commonly hears that carping critics complain about what is wrong, but do not present solutions. There is an accurate translation for that charge: 'They present solutions, but I don't like them.
Noam Chomsky
#2. I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.
Ann Coulter
#3. The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#4. Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.
Christian Baloga
#5. Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#6. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Van Wyck Brooks
#7. The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
Walter Savage Landor
#8. I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.
Paul Krugman
#9. God is just!' said a carping theologian to me the other day. 'Yes,' I answered, 'and he cannot be pleased that you should call that justice which is injustice, and attribute it to him!
George MacDonald
#10. The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.
Jean De La Bruyere
#11. I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.
George H. W. Bush
#12. It is their constant carping that has really made them old. Age is but another step in the natural cycle of life. We are growing old from the moment of our birth.
Bertrice Small
#13. I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.
A. Whitney Brown
#14. I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.
Anne Bradstreet
#15. An environment of carping and criticism is dangerous to your mental health, whereas those who support and encourage you bring out your true potential and spark your genius.
Willard F. Harley
#16. The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.
Ann Coulter
#17. It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.
Richard Reti
#18. All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.
Bertrand Russell
#20. Every time I reach a new peak, I see a new one I want to climb.
Madonna Ciccone
#22. Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.
George Bernard Shaw
#23. I will never see my little boy again," she finished. "But I am proud of the man he became.
Christopher G. Nuttall
#24. Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.
Heron Carvic