#lain

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#always #any #complain #determine #doing

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ↗

— Lord Jeffrey

#inferior #intellects #little #may #sign

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues. ↗

— Joan Jett

#ask #call #expand #explore #i

Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#any #awards #complaints #done #films

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#anybody #anymore #anything #certain #enterprise

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#contempt #excite #fortune #more #pity

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#again #before #clear #doctrines #false

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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