Lily Tomlin on complain
Lily Tomlin88 quotes“I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.”
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What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin If you can’t be direct, why be?
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you’d have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.
Rick WarrenRick Warren The moment you start complaining, you are already not taking into consideration all the good things Allah [God] has given you.
Nouman Ali KhanNouman Ali Khan Never complain. Never explain.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
Gordon B. HinckleyGordon B. Hinckley Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.
Henri NouwenHenri Nouwen The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
Katharine HepburnKatharine Hepburn
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