Complaining Vs Venting Quotes & Sayings

I have this terrible habit of always being right. I try to fight it, but for some reason it's a habit I just can't shake. — Darren Schalk

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 N. Beck

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions — Ayn Rand

The truth is that you are afraid.'
'Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean. — Alexandre Dumas

The reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. — William Faulkner

I've nothing against people. Just a***oles. But then, most people are. — Fakeer Ishavardas

Usually scripts are beneficial, or at least harmless. The constant daily drone of small talk, the ritual greetings, even venting anger or complaining about politics or foreign affairs that we have no direct knowledge of, are all comforting. It's the soothing background noise of a group without a pending crisis. — Rory Miller

Blood is the god of war's rich livery. — Christopher Marlowe

The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands ... It is here about us or it is nowhere. — Allen Tucker

When I began a diet a week before my stroke, I never dreamed of such a dramatic result. — Jean-Dominique Bauby