American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
I'm a poet who can whine in meter
Its hard for me to listen to any actors whine or moan about anything acting-related because look at the world. We really have nothing to complain about. Just to be working is a blessing.
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.
Just when it's the two of us, he doesn't whine as much.
Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.
In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we’re going to whine or do the work.
The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings
The people who whine about Fox News are hypocrites - they say they're totally tolerant, but when they run into someone who doesn't share their assumptions, they say, 'Fox News is evil, and it must be stopped.
The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World. " Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.
If you have the strength to whine, you have the strength to do something about it.
You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.
. . . The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book - if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.
You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.
Don't whine. . . laugh.
Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it.
