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Quotes About Panic

Mainstream media can be controlled, right. Because messaging from mainstream comes from that particular news outlet or whatever. Then you have the top people driving that messaging, and then that's what it is, right? Social media can really stir up a higher level of panic. If you think about it, it's not controlled.
~ Dr. Disrespect
Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.
~ Polly Berrien Berends
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Hedge funds built their strategies on short selling, but governments imposed clumsy restrictions on shorting amid the post-Lehman panic.
~ Sebastian Mallaby
Imagine, then, what happens when your over-active amygdala teams up with your overly-negative self-talk. When it does, all bets are off. Suddenly, it's mental chaos! The alarm bells are clanging and your self-talk goes into total negative and makes everything triple-worse. You are no longer in control. Even good things look bad. Promise and hope fly out the window. The only thing left in the room is tension and panic––and your stress level goes through the roof!
~ Shad Helmstetter
Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.
~ Shannon Hale
Run." Raven took off, Apple on her heels, screaming as a swarm of flying, crawling, leaping insects chased them. "Aah!" Apple screamed. "Aah! I mean, La la la!" Apple sang desperately. "LA LA LA LA!
~ Shannon Hale
She either looked like a glamorous movie star or a cheap hooker. It depended on how deeply she was panicking when she looked at her reflection. The black dress was soft and snug. It was V-necked and long-sleeved, so perfectly respectable. But Hailey had gotten her to wear one of her high-dollar bras and the boobs were not respectable at all. Even decently covered up, they demanded attention.
~ Shannon Stacey
And I panic, a little, for my mother, I want to say: Remember, I never understood her—in a way, I never knew her. All morning I am glad to think of the arachnid, hunting on her own terms, inside the moist crinolines of the arboreal flowers, far from me, free of me, alive, unseen.
~ Sharon Olds
and she is staring, as if the surface of her face is liquid— incredulous panic
~ Sharon Olds
the first time he snarled, I had a bit of a panic attack." "She screamed and threw him at me." Dez scowled at Mace. "I did not throw my son at you. I just handed him over and walked quickly from the room so I could scream into a pillow in our bedroom." "I found her under the bed with the dogs.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Don't yell at me." "This is not yelling. This is panicked loud talking!
~ Shelly Laurenston
Stevie! Stevie!" When her sister didn't respond, Charlie released her and threw up her hands. "I've killed her. Of course I've killed her. I knew one day I'd kill you all." Max finally got to her feet. "Good Lord! Get off the cross, we need the wood." "What does that mean?
~ Shelly Laurenston
Stevie could go from zero to hysterical in six seconds. She was the Ferrari of panic.
~ Shelly Laurenston
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 there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
~ Jose Bergamin
She was engulfed by mingled panic and indecision, and by a terrible depression. She would never see him again. He would come riding out of the stable in a moment and disappear down the driveway, and she would never see him again. Ever.
~ Mary Balogh
Brother Patrick's rosy face turned white. "Make haste!" he said to the other monks. "Gather the books and hide.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
If you look at survivable crashes, it's rare that even half the emergency exits open," says Shanahan. "Plus, there's a lot of panic and confusion." Shanahan cites the example of a Delta crash in Dallas. "It should have been very survivable. There were very few traumatic injuries. But a lot of people were killed by the fire. They found them stacked up at the emergency exits. Couldn't get them open.
~ Mary Roach
I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.
~ Mary Shelley
Office of Confusion and Panic
~ Maureen Johnson
But I was fuelled by the power of confusion and panic, which, like I said is always ready and waiting to get to work.
~ Maureen Johnson
En cambio ahora su apresuramiento tiene otro motivo: el miedo. No los empuja ningún propósito, sino tan sólo el miedo. No van a ningún sitio; escapan.
~ Ayn Rand
It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted.
~ Barack Obama