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• She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer.

  Patricia Briggs

  Uncles, People, Ghost

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Iron Kissed”, p.84, Penguin

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• When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

  Marge Piercy

  Eye, Angel, Brain

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.117, Knopf

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• Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Fog, Gossip, Cynical

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.387, Penguin

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• Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.

  Marianne Williamson

  Psychics, Games, Rose

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

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• I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me," I said. "I want to be myself." "Don't be a child." I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. "What?" "You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I'm tired of your whining.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Children, Tired, Done

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• It's kind of ironic that my character is a doctor who acts very gay with his best friend. I don't see how gays could ever be doctors, they spend too much time whining about everything. Just get off your soapbox and go back to designing floral arrangements.

  Zach Braff

  Character, Gay, Doctors

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• Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

  Edmund Stoiber

  Vanity, Political, Berlin

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• You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong, can withstand anything, that you are not a slave to your body, you don't have to give in to its whining.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Strong, Pain, Giving

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• Just a few months ago in the Republican primary Mitt Romney said to his opponents, who he was crushing at the time, stop whining. And I think that's a good message for the Romney campaign. Instead of whining about what the Obama campaign is saying, why don't you just put the facts out there and let people decide rather than trying to hide them.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Crush, Thinking, People

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.theshowbuzz.com. July 15, 2012.

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• I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

  John Donne

  Doors, Noise, Contemplation

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 12 December 1626 'At the Funeral of Sir William Cokayne'

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• It's unfortunate when an athlete's talent comes with so little forethought or leadership [...] The Falcons need to start over. If next year's team ends up being young and hungry but fairly average, the last thing you want as a general manager or coach is to have a blowhard cornerback whining about his contract leading the charge, no matter how good he is.

  Jeff Schultz

  Team, Athlete, Average

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• Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.

  Stanley Bing

  Advancement, Robots, Would Be

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• I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Lying, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.507, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And you, whiner, who wastes your time
  Dawdling over the remorseless earth,
  What evil, what unspeakable crime
  Have you made your life worth?

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Evil, Earth, Waste

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• I have people who buy my books just so they can sit them around and show them off because of the titles, especially the Shut Up, Stop Whining and the Grow a Pair. So the title is very, very important.

  Larry Winget

  Book, People, Important

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• I'm a comedian and there are a lot of things I'm still learning. I love one liners because I love smart jokes. I also don't like complaining about society or whining about my life on stage.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Smart, Comedian, Complaining

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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• If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.

  Anita Diament

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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• I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!

  Allan Sloan

  People, Faults, Looks

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• I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

  Michael Moore

  Media, Corporate, Knows

  Interview with Andrew Collins, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2002.

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• They say when opportunity knocks you should let it in and invite it to sit at your table. F*** that -- when opportunity knocks, you should take it captive. Beat that s*** down. I've got opportunity tied to a chair in my basement with a ball gag in its mouth. Opportunity ain't even thinking about leaving my house. If you keep quiet for a second, you'll hear it whining.

  Tracy Morgan

  Thinking, Opportunity, House

  "Top 15 Most Jaw-Dropping Revelations From Tracy Morgan" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. October 20, 200.

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• American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

  Jack Germond

  Years, Attention, American Voters

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• My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

  Kurt Cobain

  Courage, Honesty, Fear

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• I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

  John Donne

  God, Christian, Prayer

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 12 December 1626 'At the Funeral of Sir William Cokayne'

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• Never take yourself too seriously.

  Ariana Grande

  Pity, Laugh At Yourself, Predicaments

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• You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

  Gore Vidal

  Investing, Might, Doleful

  "Gore Vidal: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 1, 2012.

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