Grumble Quotes (page 2)

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• world
• unhappy
• beats

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself. Soren Kierkegaard

• failure
• people
• otherness

People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay. W. H. Auden

• world
• old
• good

One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, with the same grumbling laconism that he would have employed to predict a good harvest to his tenants, that I should rule the world. Marguerite Yourcenar

• feeling
• exercise
• enough

Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain quickly speckled the windscreen. He turned on the wipers again, but they still refused to feel that the exercise was worthwhile, and scraped and squeaked in protest. Douglas Adams

• hell
• helpful
• bright

Aw, hell!" Kyle grumbled. My gaze flickered toward him at the sound of his voice. I could just see his bright eyes around Jared's elbow, focused on me. " It didn't fall!" He complained. Jared lundged forward, away from me. With a loud smacking sound, his fist hit Kyle's face. Kyle's eyes rolled back in his head, and his mouth fell slack. The room was very quiet for a few seconds. "Um," Doc said in a mild voice, "medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful thing for his... Stephenie Meyer

• she
• little
• tree

I suppose in reality not a leaf goes yellow in autumn without ceasing to care about its sap and making the parent tree very uncomfortable by long growling and grumbling - but surely nature might find some less irritating way of carrying on business if she would give her mind to it. Why should the generations overlap one another at all? Why cannot we be buried as eggs in neat little cells with ten or twenty thousand pounds each wrapped round us in Bank of England notes, and wake up, as the... Samuel Butler

• greatness
• small
• great

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God. Robert Grosseteste

• love
• best
• best love

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most. Billy Sunday

• star
• hard
• today

It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it? Larry Hagman

• him
• may
• street

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. Johann Kaspar Lavater

• thankful
• people
• thanks

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr

• god
• rain
• choices

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice. James Whitcomb Riley

• contentment
• enough
• shows

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest. Jerome K. Jerome