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Quotes About Panic

Etchenike reparó en que el orden solía reinar, mientras que el desorden era mucho más anárquico o democrático porque habitualmente cundía, como el pánico o el desánimo.
~ Juan Sasturain
There's something wrong with the brakes." He didn't recognize his shaky, weak voice. He pumped them again. Nothing.  "There's something wrong with the BRAKES?" "I don't think we have any." "We don't have any BRAKES?" "Bro, it doesn't help to repeat everything I say!" Jonah yelled.
~ Jude Watson
Yes, every once in a while, negative experiences occur: a ghost gone astray or an angry spirit encountered. Some spirits are less pleasant than others. Yet this shouldn't be cause for panic; these situations can be effectively dealt with, if you know what to do.
~ Judika Illes
When I was little and my mom used to take me to the mall she always told me that if I got lost, I should just stay where I was and she'd come and find me," Denni said. "We're not in a mall now!" I screamed.
~ Judy Baer
Wretch. The wretch retches. Calm. Sanity. Sanity is good. Panic is bad. Panic prevented deduction and deduction is the only things that's going to get me out of this.
~ Jules Feiffer
Because if he looked like he was unaffected by her smile, then she would not realize that, in actuality, he was in an utter panic because somewhere deep down inside he'd realized that his life had just changed forever.
~ Julia Quinn
Richard looked in horror at the piano. "Oh, no," Iris quickly assured him. "There will be no music. At least not that I know of. It's not a concert." Still, Richard's eyes widened with panic. Where was Winston and his little balls of cotton when he needed him? "You're frightening me, Miss Smythe-Smith.
~ Julia Quinn
The act of waitressing is a solace, it's got everything you could ask for - confusion, panic, humility, and food.
~ Eve Babitz
The horror had begun.
~ F. Paul Wilson
From Farbod Mimeh at LCG this morning: "With markets having already priced in a rate increase, a surprise decision from the Fed could spark major volatility and panic for equities." http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-dangers-of-getting-cocky-ahead-of-interest-rate-decisions-2015-12-16
~ Farbod Mimeh
I write well-fleshed out characters, and inevitably, more ideas spring from my subconscious. They all have a little bit of me in them. It's very hard to figure out in advance how a story will unfold, but after having written so many novels, I feel more comfortable letting the ideas come up from somewhere in my own subconscious. Writing is much easier now because that sense of panic I used to experience doesn't set in as I begin a new book.
~ Faye Kellerman
por onde ella logo com medo fugia para a concava funda da casa do fumo,
~ Fernão Mendes Pinto
It all made sense — terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely
~ Flora Rheta Schreiber
Some of the benefits of swimming derive, ironically, from daring to come as close as we can to this very fight for survival. That's the sublime: the awe and the terror, together. Those moments of panic, the electric flashes of fear, are elucidating, exhilarating. The act of getting in is a small defiance of death itself.
~ Bonnie Tsui
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.
~ bovee christian nestell iii
You're aware," Myron said, "that kidnap victims often identify with their abductors." "I know all that. The Stockholm syndrome and all its bizarre offshoots. But it just didn't seem that way. Katie didn't look particularly exhausted. The body language was right. There wasn't panic in her eyes or any kind of cult-like zealousness. Her eyes were clear, in fact. I didn't see signs of drugs there, though granted I only got a brief look.
~ Harlan Coben
Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
~ Harper Lee
Mr. Nathan, Mr. Arthur, mad dog's comin'! Mad dog's comin'!
~ Harper Lee
Once you're lost, you panic. You're in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a real pain that way, 'cause when you get in the mood all you can think about is what's right under your nose - that's sex, all right.
~ Haruki Murakami
first don't panic, second don't panic and third DID I MENTCHIN NOT TO PANIC?!
~ Hayao Miyazaki
No one considered the possibility that I might have been experiencing a hot flash paired with a panic attack, a notoriously common experience in perimenopause.
~ Heather Corinna
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
~ Helen Keller
I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn't like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from experience you can't hear more than 50 yards either way down a canyon.
~ Aron Ralston
Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.
~ Julian Cope