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Quotes About Panic

I'm supposed to trust you? No, he said. He picked up the phone. Put her sister on. A second later he handed the small silver device to her. Summer felt a second of panic—after all, this tiny piece of metal and circuitry unlocked doors, turned off death traps and blew up houses. God knows what would happen if she pushed the wrong button.
~ Anne Stuart
She began to have a slight feeling of panic. What am I doing here? she thought.
~ Anne Tyler
Don't worry," he kept saying. "The overworld can't hurt you if you stay calm." I wasn't calm at all. But my panic was like a poisonous snake at a zoo, staring at me from the other side of thick glass. Only Yamaraj's touch on my arm kept the glass from shattering. His skin seemed to burn against mine.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Maybe the trick was not to panic. In life, as in the bewildering business of writing stories and flinging them out into the world, you had to focus on the page in front of you.
~ Scott Westerfeld
The problem with fear, though, is that it isn't any one thing. Fear has a whole taxonomy—anxiety, dread, panic, foreboding—and you could be braced for one form and completely fall apart facing another.
~ Sebastian Junger
the air raids failed to trigger the kind of mass hysteria that government officials had predicted.
~ Sebastian Junger
There's no shortage of panic and no shortage of people willing to rearrange the truth to preserve their vision of the world as they'd like it to be.
~ Seth Godin
I don't hate you, you idiot. I'm in love with you. That's why I'm panicking!" She marched to the door and yelled, "And our children will not be freaks!" "Except their mother already is," her father yelled back.
~ Shelly Laurenston
You actually enjoyed that, didn't you? (Amanda) Oh, hell yes! Did you see the look on their faces? Man, I love this car. (Kyrian) (She looked up at the sky and implored divine aid.) Dear God, please separate me from this maniac before I die of fright. (Amanda)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Bubba there zombies.....and there trying to eat me! -Nick Gautier
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kiara having a sever panic attack.) Kiara? Hauk wears women's underwear. (Nykyrian) Come again? (Kiara) Hauk wears women's underwear. Pink and really girly. You know, one of those skimpy things that tucks into the crack of his fat ass. (Nykyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
What if one of her father's soldiers panicked and fired for no reason? Though pilots were carefully trained, mistakes happened and she didn't want to be included in a statistics report under "uh-oh, my bad."' (Kiara)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm telling you people; its a zombie attack. Z to the Oto the M to the B to the I,E. ZOMBIE... -Bubba
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Quotations Oh man, I hate that poofing shit. You scared me so bad, Ash, you made me eat this crappy cheese. (Nick in Night Embrace).
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He flipped the channel to another view of the scorpions swarming over a road downtown toward people who were screaming and running to get away from them.' "Welcome to the apocalypse. Ain't she pretty?" – Sundown
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Im massively scared of spiders. Even small ones scare the life out of me.
~ Robert Kazinsky
I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.
~ Trevor McDonald
Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.
~ John Hodgman
The most popular answer to this question among those who take the phenomenon seriously is that the aliens do not dare to manifest themselves more directly. Government leaders would panic, might attack them, and surely would not know how to avoid scaring the rest of us.
~ John E. Mack
A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to burn it to the ground. The panicked nobleman's message for help was answered by the arrival of a single Ranger. Aghast, the nobleman confronted the solitary cowled figure. 'They sent one Ranger?' he said incredulously. 'One man?' 'How many riots do you have?' the Ranger replied.
~ John Flanagan
That tendency...to lie awake between the hours of two and four, when the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic.
~ John Galsworthy
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.
~ John Lennon
The fear, not the disease, threatened to break the society apart.
~ John M. Barry