Venting Quotes

• I think there is little harm in venting here and there about things, as we are all human, and it is good to express emotions.

  Michelle Gielan

  Thinking, Littles, Here And There

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• Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you try and explain yourself, the more mixed up things become. Your best friend knows when you're kidding, venting, and tired. He or she knows you and therefore doesn't read into the things you say.

  Francois Mauriac

  Best Friend, Tired, Misunderstood

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• Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Maturity, Feelings, Important

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• The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.

  Martha Beck

  Emotional, Thinking, Frustration

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• When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.

  Donald T. Phillips

  Motivational, Writing, Expression

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• Too quickly, venting can turn into dumping garbage on the people around us.

  Michelle Gielan

  People, Garbage, Turns

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• As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

  George R. R. Martin

  Night, Air, Dragons

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.816, Bantam

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• Did God really say that I couldn't tell my friends what so and so did yesterday? Does that really count as gossip? No, it's just venting, and venting is healthy right? Wrong! We are supposed to think about the things that are praiseworthy, not gossip worthy.

  Heather Hart

  Thinking, Yesterday, Gossip

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• I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle.

  Eric Clapton

  Real, People, Needs

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• Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

  Patrick Stump

  "Patrick Stump On Life Since Fall Out Boy: ‘I Did It For 10 Years, But It Wasn’t Comfortable’" by Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2011.

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• And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

  George R. R. Martin

  Night, Dragons, Years

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.816, Bantam

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• How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.

  Dana Gioia

  Dark, Voice, Unbroken

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.14, Macmillan

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• As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Real, Kids, Long

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• What a day for the Tea Party people. Did you see that? America's parks and fairgrounds were lost in a sea of man-boobs. They were venting their anger and rage against taxes, which, of course, in most cases for them went down. Protesting their taxes went down, but you know, why let the truth spoil a perfectly good Klan rally.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Men, Perfectly Good

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• It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the - into space.

  Jim Lovell

  Moon, Space, Looks

  "Day 3: 'Houston, we've had a problem'". Apollo 13 Flight Journal, history.nasa.gov. May 30, 2017.

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• An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Drama, Moving, Past

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• [It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

  George Eliot

  Emotion, Easier, Consequence

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.105

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• So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

  Rose Macaulay

  Sports, Opportunity, Games

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• Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it.

  Susan Cain

  Fuel, Study, Score

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.233, Broadway Books

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• Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.

  Steven Weber

  Hair, Media, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.

  James Q. Wilson

  Mean, Law, Police

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.

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• There are no general-interest media that all of us can tap into. I'm not a good person to talk to about social media. I just avoid it. I'm suspicious also of the culture of venting. But the bigger question is, How can we in this media world have a genuine civic conversation? I mean, look at Franklin Roosevelt. He had these radio talks that all Americans listened to, and there was a common civic conversation that came out of it.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Mean, Media, World

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and a garbage bag full of angry bees in front of me.

  Obert Skye

  School, Responsibility, Black

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• I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Iraq, Space, Middle East

  "Andrew Sullivan: Dishing It Out Daily For A Decade". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 17, 2010.

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