Venting Anger Quotes & Sayings

Instead of venting my anger, which is really just hurt dressed up for a night on the town, I ask if anyone needs a drink. — Ron Currie Jr.

Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies. — Amy Lockwood

Catharsis THE MISCONCEPTION: Venting your anger is an effective way to reduce stress and prevent lashing out at friends and family. THE TRUTH: Venting increases aggressive behavior over time. — David McRaney

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

What is important in correction is not venting your feelings, anger or hurt; it is, rather, understanding the nature of the struggle that your child is having. What is important is understanding the "why" of what has been done or said. — Tedd Tripp

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

What remains mysterious, or even enigmatic are those two words "nothing more," "pas davantage" in French. — Javier Marias

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

venting anger does not solve the problem that anger signals. — Harriet Lerner

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

Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Today the Washington Post did an article; they compared the 2008 presidential election to the 1932 presidential election. They did a comparison, mainly because 1932 was the first time John McCain ran for president. — Conan O'Brien

I hope the next time you get a double-decker strawberry ice-cream cone the ice cream part falls off the cone and lands in Australia. — Judith Viorst

There were cats; cats I was wildly attached to - my husband and I spoke in cat voices. Once the marriage was over, I never thought of the cats again (until I wrote about them in a novel and disguised them as hamsters). — Nora Ephron

One participant got so angry after thinking about the insulting feedback that hitting the punching bag wasn't enough: he punched a hole in the wall of the lab. — Adam M. Grant

Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought. — Alastair Pilkington

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow. — William Blake

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

The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I'm home, I'm a pretty green fellow. — Bill McKibben

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play. — Michel De Montaigne

You can't train them to express their anger in mature ways simply by getting upset at them and forcing them to stop venting their anger. — Gary Chapman

Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time. — Alexander Gustafsson

When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness, their watchmen would shout halt when they trespassed the law. Now their watchmen are silent. They serve no king and protect no kingdom. — James W. Sire

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story. And somehow, miraculously, a story that comes from deep in my heart calls from a reader that which is deepest in his or her heart, and together from our secret hidden selves we create a story that neither of us could have told alone. — Katherine Paterson

It's interesting to note that when something like a virus tries to poison us, the first thing our bodies do is heat up. We burn away the infection. Maybe that's what Earth is doing to us. — Simon Toyne

The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence. — Leslie Stephen