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Quotes About Panic

But much of what happened after the levees broke didn't have to. It was the result of fear. When Tierney was speaking about elite panic—"fear of social disorder; fear of poor, minorities, and immigrants; obsession with looting and property crime; willingness to resort to deadly force; and actions taken on the basis of rumor"—she was talking shortly after Katrina
~ Rebecca Solnit
Notre seule défense contre eux était de leur faire peur. Mais nous leur avoins fait TROP PEUR!...
~ René Barjavel
The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less).
~ Richard Dawkins
threatening apes. What was this room? How could he get out? The green blindfold was now wrapping around his throat, choking him. His heart was pounding. He
~ Richard Flanagan
Overhead soft-bellied clouds panic toward the horizon like whales before the harpoon, and the wind runs addict's fingers through the trees that line the street.
~ Richard K. Morgan
His eyes rolled in their sockets like a panicked horse's.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Unfold your days with me and lose your sense of panic and loss. This earth is abundant. It holds joy for you, and contentment. Bring me your restless heart. Allow me to gentle your soul.
~ Julia Cameron
But there is panic and pandemonium waiting to break out inside all of us, of this I am convinced. I've seen it roar out among the dying, as a last protest against the human condition and its chronic sadness.
~ Julian Barnes
The panic takes some to God, others to despair, some to charitable works, others to drink, some to emotional oblivion, others to a life where they hope that nothing serious will ever trouble them again.
~ Julian Barnes
How astounding that the largest thing he'd ever seen was still no match for the diminishing effect of distance. It made him aware of his own smallness in the world, his insignificance in the face of what might come, and for a moment his chest felt light with panic.
~ Julie Orringer
Aquí fundamos Comercio Pánico con el objetivo de sistematizar los crímenes y así acelerar el proceso de desarrollo social. Esperamos que, con base en este principio, todos nuestros empleados colaboren orgullosamente con el aumento de la felicidad social.
~ K?b? Abe
Even amidst the worst panic, there are still scattered moments like this, when time flows leisurely by. Even when trying to finish a story by an impending deadline, Asakawa would sometimes find himself aimlessly watching coffee drop from the spout of the coffee maker, and later he'd reflect on how elegantly he'd wasted precious time.
~ K?ji Suzuki
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
~ Tacitus
Running is never fun. Running is something that you do when there's a man chasing you with a knife.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!
~ Robin Williams
In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.
~ Gertrude Atherton
The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.
~ H. G. Wells
Facebook stock continues to plummet. People started selling once they found out their mom bought it too.
~ Stephen Colbert
I suffer from CLAUSTROPHOBIA, a fear of closed spaces.For example, I'm petrified that the WINE store will be closed before I have time to get there!!!
~ Tanya Masse
Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.
~ Peter Lynch
All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.
~ Homer
Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class.
~ Sherman Alexie
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
~ Helen Keller
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
~ Leif Enger