Quote by Jon Winokur Download Open image ““KVETCH:(Yiddish) verb: to gripe or fret; noun: a chronic complainer, a whiner”” — Jon Winokur ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“husk or shell that has grown up around a spark of holiness, masking its light" (203): Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Slang, too, is the wholesome fermentation or eructation of those processes eternally active in language, by which froth and specks are thrown up, mostly… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up. — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“Kitsch" is a German word born in the middle of the sentimental nineteenth century, and from German is entered all Western languages. Repeated use,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people. — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“GRUBELEIEN: German word for a not entirely unpleasant form of brooding; a sort of inward directed schadenfreude, i.e., perverse delight in one's own troubles” — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“DEFENSE PESSIMISM: According to psychologist Julie Norem, positive thinking doesn't work for some people, who should try defensive pessimism. Here's how it works: in… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“HOLLOW-TOOTH SYNDROME: Compulsion to torture oneself mentally, based on the fact that nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“BYSTANDER EFFECT: Phenomenon documented by social scientists in which people are less likely to help someone in distress when there are others present who… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“TUCKE DES OBJEKTS, DIE: Literally "the malice of things," the sneaking dread that machines are biding their time until they can turn on us… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“NOCEBO: Latin for "I will harm"; a negative placebo; physical manifestation of pessimism; self-fulfilling prophecy of disbelief. In the nocebo effect, a bad result… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“SITUATIONAL INTIMACY: Intimacy generated by a shared situation rather than a romantic or familial relationship, as when random train or airliner seatmates share their… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
They give unconditional love and undying loyalty in return for regular meals and an occasional pat on the head. — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure. — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
