Grumblers Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism. — Malorie Blackman

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic. — Douglas William Jerrold

Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day. — Patricia McBride

The antithesis of giving thanks is grumbling. The grumblers live in a state of self-induced stress. — Brennan Manning

The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same. — Simon Sinek

The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,
persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased. — Edwin Percy Whipple

I'm going to be a big sister," Emily said. "My daddy breeded my mommy, like Chinook with the mares. — Pamela Clare

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life. — Pliny The Elder

The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind. — Edward Gibbon

Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I just want you to remember it. All of it. In vivid, technicolor clarity. And that can only be achieved if you're sober. When you and I come together for the first time, I want you to remember every touch," I ran my hand up her arm and down her back, causing her to shiver. "Every moan. — J.L. Berg

I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do such a good job, we lose track of reality. — Laurie Halse Anderson

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him. — Various

As grumblers go, Stubble was in a league of his own. — Ian Livingstone

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best. — Zig Ziglar

I hate to use that term [iPad Killer] since the iPad is probably dead anyway. — John C. Dvorak

From "I Exist" in Every Lyric Tells A Story.
His mother thought he was a loser
His father thought he was a bum
Plenty of times he felt like running
But he really had nowhere to run
He fought it with everything he had
With his brains and with his fists
And whenever anyone told him he was nobody
He'd tell himself "I exist — Mark Wilkins

Within the same hour as the murder took place, Isabel Trumbo sat in her armchair dozing, the Alaskan Outdoor magazine on her lap. Her kid sister Alma fidgeted in the other armchair, from time to time picking up her newspaper folded over to the day's crossword puzzle. — Ed Lynskey

Love is a credulous thing. — Ovid

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors. — Jen Lancaster

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out. — Edgar Guest

What feels like such a painful loss now will become something beautiful later on. You cannot escape your destiny. You can certainly try. People do so every day. They hold on tight, and the river just dries up. — Elizabeth Lesser

I had learned by personal experience that grumblers are deaf to any voices but their own. — Alan Bradley

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. — Robert Hugh Benson