A Quote by Mason Cooley

Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

Mason Cooley

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Complaining Favorite Millions Pastime

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

Complaining about the weather seems to be a favorite American pastime. Sadly, we Christians often get caught up in this ungodly habit in our society. But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather. We are, in fact, sinning against God.

Jerry Bridges

Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.

Billy Evans

My favorite pastime is to write.

Danny Bonaduce

Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.

Natalie Goldberg

Because I love making people mad. It is my favorite pastime.

Maxwell Jacob Friedman

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

Alexander Ludwig

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

Audrey Hepburn

World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in.

Victoria Aveyard

I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.

Rainbow Rowell

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

Lynn Johnston

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Eckhart Tolle

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Aldous Huxley

... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.

Devon Monk

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Albert Camus

Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.