Quotes About Griping

#1. I'm a bad, inconsistent person, but at least I'm not a member of the Tea Party griping incoherently about too much government, but flashing my Medicare card every other day to a doctor because I'm 400 pounds overweight.

George Singleton

#2. Make peace with the fact that there will be those who bitch no matter what you do. You might as well do what makes you happy, so at least when you hear the bitching, you'll know that the event they're griping about was exactly the one you wanted.

Ariel Meadow Stallings

#3. I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there.

Melissa Leo

#4. There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!"

Travis Morrison

#5. Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May every flea, leech and hookworm in all creation find and feast upon them!

Tamora Pierce

#6. Griping is for those without a plan of action...

Neal Shusterman

#7. He said, "Yefrem! Stop griping. Take this book and read it."
Yefrem stopped short, and looked at it dully.
"What for? Why read, when we'll all be dead soon?"
Ogloyed's scar twitched.
"That's exactly why you have to hurry, because you'll soon be dead.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#8. For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

Kevin Spacey

#9. When I'm not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when I'm working, I want to do all those things I was griping about - you know, make a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, put it in a zip-top bag, and stick it in a lunch box right now!

Angie Harmon

#10. Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.

Michael K. Powell

#11. As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

Al Yankovic

#12. When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

#13. The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.

Roger Ebert

#14. You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.

Tom Shales

#15. Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Dorothea Brande

#16. Every girl has a right to be loved.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. Challenges are solved by rising to a level higher than the challenge.

Deepak Chopra

#18. What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

Henri Nouwen

#19. If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

Gautama Buddha

#20. Wealth, status, and power have become in our culture all too powerful symbols of happiness ... And we assume that if only we could acquire some of those same symbols, we would be nuch happier.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#21. They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich.

Robert Crumb

#22. AS THE MUSIC swelled during a recent wedding reception, my hopelessly romantic husband squeezed my hand, leaned in, and said, "You are better looking than half the women here.

Anonymous

#23. History is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be able to overcome, and it's in those moments, in that fight, that people find out who they are.

Brad Meltzer

#24. Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

Charles Spurgeon