Kvetchers

He devoted his latter years to do something to improve other people's lives and perhaps more kvetchers should learn how to button up and do something. ❋ Ph.D. Harvey Gotliffe (2010)

But the main problem with the current narrative about Israel promoted by the numerous kvetchers is the underlying notion that Israeli policies are driven exclusively by security considerations and that in any case, Israeli policies are not responsible for Arab and Muslim hostility since that anti-Israeli position reflects the anti-Jewish and anti-Western sentiments shared by the elites and the publics in the Middle East. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Which is this: If all you proud parental kvetchers can just get over yourselves, you may find that both the Jonases and their concert movie are pretty good. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And for the record, I never thought Meg White's drumming was as bad as the kvetchers claimed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Conservatives are either high-profile kvetchers or the silent majority. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although a writer may well have a legitimate grievance against her publisher or agent, a lot of the kvetching that takes place is really a slightly self-deprecating way of celebrating the fact that the kvetchers can make a living from writing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What the neo-con progress-mavens out there don't seem to get about anti-overdevelopment kvetchers like me is I'm not against development in New York City per se; I'm against the kind of development that is taking place. ❋ Brooks Of Sheffield (2008)

Former Attorney General Paul Bardacke put it succinctly (and we hope the message is loud and clear to the dwindling number of Republican gripers and kvetchers about how much Bill Richardson was gone in the past year): within 4 days of his ending his Presidential campaign, he is back in Santa Fe with outstanding economic development news. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And being a serious Sinatra collector myself I prefer to be called a completist, others prefer "nerd", I'm usually one of the louder voices in the chorus of kvetchers. ❋ Tony Sachs (2011)

Let's hope the Pakistanis are not found wanting in gratitude for this gesture, but then again kvetchers and grumblers may find a thing or two awry in his grand plan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My parents, still residents of the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts, are consistent kvetchers about their ever-expanding property tax burden; money required to pay for brilliant boondoggles like the Big Dig, state employees receiving payment for unused sick days, rising public sector pay and unsustainable municipal health care costs. ❋ Michael C. Moynihan (2010)

We have become a country of kvetchers and apologists, even while at war. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And to the grumblers and compulsive kvetchers, be careful not to confuse the poisoned Kool-Aid goblet from the unpoisoned one. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I think sometimes that’s a big problem for some of the kvetchers and complainers, they just don’t want anyone to be happy. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We should start a union of explainers and justifiers who respond to the kvetchers and complainers who say we have no right to do anything new, or find a new angle on something that’s been done before. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It’s really unprofessional to dismiss as kvetchers and complainers the readers that have commented on your mobile demos. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I hear the kvetchers cry) to the reproduction of the ultra-rare alternate album cover, originally used only for the reel-to-reel tape reel-to-reel being the audiophile's format of choice back during the Kennedy administration). ❋ Tony Sachs (2011)