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Quotes About Panic

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
~ Ursula K. LeGuin
My adrenalin was so heightened, and my neuromuscular system was so finely tuned that I struggled to come down between games, which resulted in high levels of anxiety and multiple panic attacks.
~ Stephanie Labbe
I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.
~ John Corbett
9/11 did not really impact me, but I remember sitting in my 6th grade math class. I remember the teachers just being in a panic and turning on our TVs and I remember the impact in the look of just disbelief and sadness and shock that was on my teacher's face.
~ Kyle Carpenter
And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.
~ William Scranton
As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle worthiness of our infantry is at an end
~ Heinz Guderian
thread of panic in her voice.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
czÅ'owiek nie mo?e pozostawa? bez koÅ"ca w stanie wielkiego przera?enia. Albo emocje rosnÄ… do tego stopnia, ze pod naciskiem coraz okropniejszych wypadków i skojarzeÅ" ono ogarnia go tak bardzo, ?e ucieka bÄ…d? popada w szaleÅ"stwo. Lu te? wewnÄ™trzne poruszenie zacznie go stopniowo opuszcza?, ustÄ™pujÄ…c miejsca rosnÄ…cemu opanowaniu.
~ Susan Hill
Sometimes fear of a thing is worse than the thing itself.
~ Susan Meissner
Where did they get those screams, Katniss?
~ Suzanne Collins
Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun . . .
~ Suzanne Collins
Panic begins to set in. I can't stay here. Flight is essential… But I can't let my fear show.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm about to panic when I remember the rabbit I startled earlier today. It has to drink, too. I just have to find out where.
~ Suzanne Collins
and muddy. The long sleeves keep getting caught on thorns and branches as I run through the woods. The pack of muttation tributes draws closer and closer until it overcomes me with hot breath and dripping fangs and I scream myself awake. It's too
~ Suzanne Collins
Gunfire rips through the crowd, and several people near me slump to the ground.
~ Suzanne Collins
I was flying home from LA and all of a sudden I looked out at the clouds and I realized, Jesus we are really flying, and it was the most wonderful and miraculous thing, and about a minute later the feelings of anxiety and panic begin. I feel the same way about marriage, today.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
When the deaths first started increasing, there were all sorts of rumors. From defective childhood vaccines to pesticides in our food—people grasped for any excuse.
~ Suzanne Young
Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
~ Vash Young
I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
~ Taylor Hanson
I have a horror of being in confined spaces.
~ Hayley Mills
Preventative measures are the bane of spontaneous action," he said. "I prefer the glory of heroism amidst panic.
~ Neal Shusterman
We are all museums of fear
~ Charles Bukowski
The writing arrives when it wants to. There is nothing you can do about it. You can't squeeze more writing out of the living than is there. Any attempt to do so creates a panic in the soul, diffuses and jars the line.
~ Charles Bukowski
What was different about this crisis was that the institutional structure was different. It was not banks and depositors; it was broker-dealers and repo markets, money market funds and commercial paper. But the basic idea of providing short-term liquidity in order to stem a panic was very much what Bagehot envisioned when he wrote Lombard Street in 1873." 37
~ Charles Wheelan