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Quotes About Venting

Boil my brains!" said Lord Peter. "Boil 'em and mash 'em and serve 'em up with butter as a dish of turnips, for it's damn well all they're fit for! Look at me!
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
So perhaps the best thing to do is simply be aware of how much venting is okay and how much is too much.
~ Richard Carlson
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
~ Lily Tomlin
People like to complain.
~ Scott Rogowsky
I always complain.
~ Kim Shattuck
Wet gas—gas that flowed mixed with petroleum—was routinely vented into the atmosphere or flared off. Gas was often left to vent into the air, sometimes for years, when drillers abandoned dry holes. A 1935 US Federal Trade Commission report to Congress estimated that 20 percent more gas was wasted nationwide between 1919 and 1930 than was consumed:
~ Richard Rhodes
Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger
~ it fuels it.
Sometimes to deal with your problems you have to let off a little steam.
~ Jeff Strand
Bah,' said Emerson. 'It relieved my feelings, but it had not the
~ Elizabeth Peters
Suppressing legitimate anger is unhealthy. Continually venting anger is also unhealthy.
~ Robert D. Enright
She says sometimes you have to scream out emotions; if you don't, they'll fester.
~ Jenny Han
I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.
~ Jay Duplass
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.
~ Drew Carey
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.
~ Drew Carey
I have a feeling you need a good, old fashioned, whine and jeeze party. Now, tell me everything.
~ Jinx Schwartz
And . . . it would be a real relief for me to have someone along I can talk to freely." Her smile tilted a little at this. "Talk, or vent?" "I—hem!—suspect this one is going to entail quite a lot of venting, yes. D'you think you can stand it?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Oh well. Better out than in
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
In prayer, we bring to Jesus those anxieties and insecurities that would otherwise fuel our outrage. The discipline of prayer prevents us from venting, flaming, or savaging others, either in person or online. I've never seen people go after someone they're praying for.
~ Ed Stetzer
I guess a psychiatrist would say there's some good to the venting process, but it does also promote an attitude of saying, 'Hey there's nothing wrong with being filled with hate; there's so much of it around.' I don't like that.
~ Mario Cuomo
It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting.
~ Thomas Haden Church
On the other hand, venting one's frustrations at the keyboard typically produces a more impressive performance.
~ Frank Tallis
Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
~ Laura Wasser
Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.
~ Howard Fast
I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
~ Victoria Pendleton