We take the good for granted, and we moan and groan at the bad.

The wretched shall be (cast) in the Fire where they will moan and sigh,

The wretched shall be (cast) in the Fire where they will moan and sigh,

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

Then his wife came forward, making moan, and smote her face, and cried A barren old woman!

Then his wife came forward, making moan, and smote her face, and cried A barren old woman!

It is decreed she is uncovered, she is carried away and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

It is decreed she is uncovered, she is carried away and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

Yet I could see soiled nappies, and I could see that some of the children were distressed, but the only noise was a low, continuous moan.

For this I will lament and wail I will go stripped and naked I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

For this I will lament and wail I will go stripped and naked I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves we look for justice, but there is none for salvation, but it is far off from us.

We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves we look for justice, but there is none for salvation, but it is far off from us.

It's as if there's some schadenfreude there, that we actually take delight in people getting things wrong, so that we can then moan and groan and bitch at them.

Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet you shall not mourn nor weep but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.

Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet you shall not mourn nor weep but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.

We sat there all day picking cotton, without complaining, without crying, while they sang things like Oh, Mary, don't you weep, don't you moan and Wade in the water, and I done done, This little light of mine.

A city tour at Zadar reveals remains of a Roman forum and a sea organ which plays music like the moan of a caged sea monster, through pipes set in the stone fabric of the promenade and open to the water.

Until we reverse the trend of declining multilateralism, governments ability to respond to global challenges will not improve. Business can moan and the media can carp, but the answer to many of the world s great problems is more or at least better government, not less.

The big problems, of course, are how we take account of past responsibility for the carbon in the atmosphere, how we balance aggregate national emissions and per capita figures China leads in the first category the US, Australia, and Canada are the biggest culprits in the second and how we manage technology transfer from developed to emerging and poor economies. There will be plenty to moan about if we don t solve these problems sooner rather than later.