Valve Quotes

• I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Believe, Destiny, Safety

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

  Richard G. Scott

  Pressure, Sense Of Humor

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• The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Safety, Brain

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS - The Royal Road to the Unconscious: Rules of Dream Interpretation: The Dream as a Fulfillment of a Wish, Distortion in Dreams, The Method of Dream Interpretation, The Sources of Dreams & The Psychology of the Dream Activities”, p.69, e-artnow

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• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life.

  Wavy Gravy

  Laughter, Pressure, Ceilings

  "Interview: Wavy Gravy : Saint Misbehavin'". Interview with Richard Whittaker, www.conversations.org. December 21, 2010.

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• The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on.

  Albert Richard Smith

  Broken Heart, Safety, Tears

  Albert Richard Smith (1848). “The struggles and adventures of Christopher Tadpole at home and abroad”, p.63

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• Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

  Monica Edwards

  Cat, Animal, Safety

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• It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Safety, Age, Middle

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.14, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

  Wavy Gravy

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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• Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Persistence, Mind, Expansion

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• When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Prayer, Stress

  Rick Warren (2008). “God's Power to Change Your Life”, p.35, Zondervan

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• About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

  Gabe Newell

  Running, Jobs, Games

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to 'tongue controllers'". Interview with Ed Fries, venturebeat.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Safety, Evil, Steam Engines

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• I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Beach, Rain

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite.

  Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

  Passion, Expression, Taught Us

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• Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Pressure, Lunatic, Rail

  Source: www.levity.com

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• My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.

  Squarepusher

  Father, House, Kitchen

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

  Anton Chekhov

  Two, Judging, First Impression

  "Ivanov". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

  Francis Bacon

  Looks, Return, Painting

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• No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.".

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Civilization, Safety

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• REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Safety, Revolution, Censorship

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• [The immigrant] becomes a kind of insurance policy against the effects of the recession. By blaming him, the pressure valve is regulated in times of crisis ... What we have now is a public mindset of us versus them, and an overall anti-immigrant climate that is both troubling and morally reprehensible.

  Andrew Lam

  Times Of Crisis, Pressure, Climate

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of throwing one foot forward, putting his head down a bit as he silently runs the valves, and then the cheeks bloom out in the way that has mystified his dentist for years, and he hits into the solo. When that foot goes forward like that, you know that John Birks Gillespie is no longer clowning. Stand back.

  Gene Lees

  Running, Years, Feet

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• Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.

  Ernest Hollings

  Blood, Arms, Taxes

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• War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

  Ernest Becker

  War, Class, Safety

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• This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best men were above the temptation of loving them, has been the source of unnumbered evils.

  Annie Besant

  Passion, Men, Safety

  Annie Besant (2012). “Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History”, p.200, Jazzybee Verlag

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