Pent Up Quotes

#1. We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

William McDonough

#2. The pent-up demand for the good life in China is extraordinary.

Steve Wynn

#3. Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#4. Why do SEALs fight so much? I haven't made a scientific study of it, but I think a lot is owed to pent-up aggression. We're trained to go out and kill people. And then, at the same time, we're also being taught to think of ourselves as invincible bad-asses.

Chris Kyle

#5. I'm not a super prolific creator, I don't make stuff everyday, and I don't have a soundtrack constantly playing in my head. I think I had years and years of pent-up aesthetic ideas that I wanted to express.

D.A. Wallach

#6. Nothing is going on."
"Hey, you're the one who tried to knock a security camera off the side of a building. That's a lot of pent-up frustration.

Myra McEntire

#7. I was a well-educated young lady from Boston with a thirst for bohemian counterculture and no clear plan. But I had no idea what to do with all my pent-up longing for adventure, or how to make my eagerness to take risks productive.

Piper Kerman

#8. Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.

Ian Botham

#9. I know that he's watching me with attentive interest while wielding his flogger with casual, yet expert skill. He moves closer. Heat, sexual tension and pent up fury radiate from his body. My Master's darker nature is fucking scary.

Nikki Sex

#10. Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. Kiss after wet kiss, he devoured her, almost a full year of pent-up desire
unleashing in one terrible flood.

Miranda Liasson

#12. Keeping love buried was a lot like keeping anger pent up, I'd learned.

Richelle Mead

#13. The preacher released a pent-up breath as he sagged in relief. "Thank God he's gone." His eyes narrowed at Alexander as he bit out, "Did you know that man had the nerve to lasso me while I was out in the woods?

Rose Wynters

#14. Ernest Becker writes, "The urge to heroism is natural, and to admit it honest. For everyone to admit it would probably release such pent-up force as to be devastating to society." Well,

Gavin De Becker

#15. I wanted to thunder and roar out the Gospel to all nations. It burned in my bones like fire pent up ... Nothing would satisfy me but to cry abroad in the world, what the Lord was doing in the latter days.

Brigham Young

#16. I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

Ice Cube

#17. All that pent up longing," he says, "all that desire to flail and flap around. Them wings have needs.

Justin Torres

#18. we read, if we have the true reader's zest and plate, not to grow more knowing, but to be less pent up and bound within a little circle, - as those who take their pleasure, and not as those who laboriously seek instruction, - as a means of seeing and enjoying the world of men and affairs.

Woodrow Wilson

#19. Pent up anger brews into hate, which subsequently becomes a juicy revenge.

Natalya Vorobyova

#20. It was all sympathetic magic. When you couldn't do something truly useful, you tended to vent the pent-up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#21. Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

Julianna Baggott

#22. The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

Winston Churchill

#23. Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion ... singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness.

Jack W. Hayford

#24. I'm not going to touch her," he said "She's not mine.She never will be."
"Indeed." Bruiser rolled his eyes and dusted off his hat. "Definitely no years of pent-up lusting there. Glad we have that sorted.

Tessa Dare

#25. I know I can't do things like love by halves, I know I have love pent up in me, I shall throw myself away, lose my heart and my body and my mind and soul to some cad like G.P. Who'll betray me. I feel it.

John Fowles

#26. It's like I've been stuffed full of twigs and all I have to do is bend and my body will break. All the guilt, the anger, the frustration, the pent-up aggression inside of me has found an outlet and now it can't be controlled.

Tahereh Mafi

#27. How many times had I imagined kissing her this way? A thousand nights of pent up desire were released in that kiss, and I knew right then that I would never have enough.

Eve Ferris

#28. The Internet of Money, bitcoin, is releasing 50 yrs. of pent up innovation in finance, because it offers innovation without permission.

Andreas Antonopoulos

#29. Usually, destructive pleasure-seeking behavior arises as an outburst of pent-up desire, and not as the expression of authentic desire.

Charles Eisenstein

#30. The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
To darken nature and be summer woods.

Robert Frost

#31. If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Quentin Crisp

#32. Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952.

Jan Hatzius

#33. Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

Winston Churchill

#34. I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

Allan Carr

#35. Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me this problem comes from stress, pent up anger, frustration, and all kinds of negativity within human beings.

David Lynch

#36. I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it.

Mark David Chapman

#37. She didn't understand what it was like to be filled with a love so strong that it made your chest ache - a love you could only feel and not express. Keeping love buried was a lot like keeping anger pent up, I'd learned. It just ate you up inside until you wanted to scream or kick something.

Richelle Mead

#38. This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.

Kenneth Clark

#39. Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

Emm Gryner

#40. The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.

Rollo May

#41. I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

Liz Phair

#42. Fiction serves a noble purpose, to oust secrecy, to obliterate shame, to use narrative as a blessed valve to relieve the awful pressure of the pent-up, unspoken pain of existence

Donal Ryan

#43. Voice frustration if you must, it is just pent up energy but always aim for solutions.

Jan Porter

#44. When you have a nightmare, don't let it control you. Try transforming that fear into into an antagonist to release pent-up feelings.

B.A. Gabrielle

#45. I scream at the top of my lungs. I scream bloody murder. I scream with years of pent up fury. But no sound leaves my chest. It's like I have forgotten how to speak.

Loretta Lost

#46. A man without a cause from God is often just an angry man who doesn't know where to direct his pent-up energy and aggression. A warrior with a cause from God directs that warlike energy for a cause greater than himself.

Craig Groeschel

#47. There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children.

Gregory Stock

#48. These rocks are a release for my pent-up emotions. When I feel all tied up inside, I just stand here and throw rocks into that vacant lot!"
"Hello, Charlie Brown, you blockhead!"
"Sometimes I think I'm kind of a vacant lot myself ...

Charles M. Schulz

#49. I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

Carrie Fisher

#50. The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#51. Pent-up anger is oftentimes more destructive than a good quarrel.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#52. Every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin;

Arthur Schopenhauer

#53. Words have the power to release pent-up emotions as well as to define them in rational and meaningful terms.

Jeff Cohen

#54. Let's go, Marcus, I have a lot of pent-up tension I need to get rid of," I said. I looked over my shoulder to where Victor was standing.

Claire Contreras

#55. When you're sober it's easier to stay in line with your train of thought. There's a lot more you're thinking about that you want to discuss, and there are a lot more memories that you're dealing with that you had pent up inside of you for so long because you had been drinking all of those years.

Ryan Montgomery

#56. I wanted to escape into her layers, to skim along the surface, and get lost in the beauty. To feel the shyness. To sink beneath, deeper into that pent-up confusion and dark.

A.L. Jackson

#57. And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will find someone before whom they could be their true self,without any pretensions and get an opportunity to release the pent-up emotions and feel light.

Chitralekha Paul

#58. The mere pouring out of some portion of long accumulating, long pent-up pain into a vessel whence it could not again be diffused
had done me good. I was already solaced.

Charlotte Bronte

#59. Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.

Tina Brown

#60. Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

Robert Browning

#61. It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.

Anne Frank

#62. A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

Henry Moore

#63. To say I had some pent-up anger would be like saying Britney Spears had minor impulse-control issues.

Molly Harper

#64. You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage.

Tony Cleaver