Moaning Quotes

• I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

  Robert Smith

  Jobs, Fun, Thinking

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• It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

  Marcel Proust

  Sweet, War, Lying

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.

  Ione Skye

  Class, Bravery, Challenges

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• A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

  Cat Deeley

  Girl, Home, Mean

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• Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Dog, Cat

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• Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Stars, Sunset

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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• When you're moaning, all you are doing is focusing on things that were not in your control, at least you are not exploring whether they were in your control, which is bad. You're just focusing on the one piece of bad variance that happened. There's nothing productive that comes from it.

  Annie Duke

  One Piece, Exploring, Productive

  Source: bigthink.com

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• To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Games, Feeling Alone

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.43, Collector's Library

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• Beginning today, I will create a new future by creating a new me. No longer will I dwell in a pit of despair, moaning over squandered time and lost opportunity. I can do nothing about the past. My future is immediate. I will grasp it in both hands and carry it with running feet. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act! I seize this moment. I choose now.

  Andy Andrews

  Running, Passion, Past

  Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I couldn't give a s***! He just can't take it. Good old Jose, moaning again.

  Sam Allardyce

  Football, League, Giving

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• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  S. J. Perelman

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Dream, Believe, Positive Thinking

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• I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.

  Tina Weymouth

  Life Is Too Short, Goes On, Has Beens

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nurse, People, Kind

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• Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

  Henrik Ibsen

  Pounds

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• Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

  J. I. Packer

  Repentance, Knows, Remorse

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• If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. If you give up drinking, don't go moaning about it; go back on the bottle. Do. As. Thou. Wilt.

  Peter O'Toole

  Giving Up, Drinking, Bottles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

  Alexei Sayle

  Character, Age, Stuff

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• I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

  Len Goodman

  Home, Broken, Parent

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• I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

  Alexander McQueen

  Design, Causes, Late

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• There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Ocean, Men, Sea

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• I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it doesn't suit you, don't go along with it. Just sit it out and get your stuff done. Don't just sit moaning or getting drunk—I spent some years doing that. But if you can just come up with something of your own, however minor it is, that's going to be easier to live with when you're at the end of your life.

  Robert Wyatt

  Years, Suits You, People

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.

  Sandra Bullock

  Awkward, Nails, Lots Of Friends

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• Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. The pines were roaring on the heights, The wind was moaning in the night, The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sleep, Dark, Night

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

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• I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.

  Julie Walters

  Done, Shooting, Awful

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