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Quotes About Panic

The reader terrorized by mathematics (persuaded by incompetent teachers that I can't understand that stuff) need not panic.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
I also feel strongly, as a libertarian philosopher, that burning Sheldrake's book is not the best way to seek an answer to such questions; and as a psychologist, I think I detect the familiar odor of primate panic behavior in the suggestion that it should be burned.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
The car was in the swamp. And the hamper was in the trunk. And the body was in the hamper. The twisted torso and the bloody head. But he couldn't think about that. He mustn't. There were other things to do.
~ Robert Bloch
Sometimes I wake up at night in a panic. Wondering: What will my life be like? And sometimes I even wonder: Who am I? What am I doing here, on this planet, in this city, in this house? And it gives me the shivers, makes me panic.
~ Robert Cormier
Pike immediately started the Jeep, but kept his voice calm. Panic bred panic. Calm inspired calm. These were lessons he learned in the battle space.
~ Robert Crais
The only real impediment to this is yourself and your emotions—boredom, panic, frustration, insecurity. You cannot suppress such emotions—they are normal to the process and are experienced by everyone, including Masters. What you can do is have faith in the process.
~ Robert Greene
The boredom will go away once you enter the cycle. The panic disappears after repeated exposure. The frustration is a sign of progress—a signal that your mind is processing complexity and requires more practice. The insecurities will transform into their opposites when you gain mastery.
~ Robert Greene
She felt for a moment the child's guilt and panic that she was to blame for something-for finally getting to know him. She that it wasn't the getting to know him part that would convict her in the end. It was the finally.
~ Kevin Brockmeier
Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn't get enough air, and I couldn't find the desire to push her away
~ Kim Harrison
Uh, guys?" Jenks said, hovering at the window. "Fountain Square is on fire." "What?" I jumped to my feet and turned in one motion. Al rushed to the window, and we pressed our foreheads to the glass, looking down.
~ Kim Harrison
I could not believe this. I was going to be hacked to shreds to the accompaniment of applause.
~ Kim Harrison
Winona!" I said, quashing my first initial panic at finding a horned, tailed, demonic creature smiling at me.
~ Kim Harrison
All of them were arrayed against the usual resistance of entrenched power and privilege and the economic system encoding these same, but now with the food panic reminding everyone that mass death was a distinct possibility, some progress was possible, for
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
El pánico es una forma de arrogancia
~ Yuval Noah Harari
screamed and jumped out of the
~ Deborah Rodriguez
Fear's ploy is to stop us looking at him, or indeed anything else, closely and attentively. When panic strikes it helps to remember that the simple act of paying attention is calming. In fact only attentiveness brings peace.
~ Declan Donnellan
What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?
~ Derek Landy
Skulduggery: What do you get if you kill the Elders? Stephanie: This sounds like a joke Skulduggery: Valkyrie -- Stephanie: I don't know Skulduggery: Yes, yes you do.. not think what would killing the Elders result in? Stephanie: Panic, fear? Three empty spaces in the Sanctuary - Skulduggery Pleasant
~ Derek Landy
In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.
~ Patrick Dodson
I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.
~ Hugh Grant
there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the shadow of the whole rearing up behind you, and you become lost in your thoughts in part from the panic of realizing the size of that imagined leviathan.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
There is a dazed panic and coiled restraint behind your every movement that will come out later through the flesh, the bone. Months from now you will wake sore and bruised, as if your body cannot forget what happened, and this is the only way it can express the trauma.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the shadow of the whole rearing up behind you, and you become lost in your thoughts in part from the panic of realizing the size of that imagined leviathan.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Rains is now clutching her chest, her face full of panic. What if some worthy prince sees Amber before me and is smitten? What if my future rule comes down to this moment, and I've already blown it? She begins to hyperventilate. I fan her with the wide sleeve of my dress. It's going to be fine.
~ Jen Calonita