Panic famous quotes

The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.
-- Abby Sunderland

#Trying #Soda #Panic

Sometimes you're the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don't mean to. And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you're made of.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Mean #Want #Panic

I get rational when I panic.
-- Amy Hempel

#Panic #Rational

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.
-- Ann-Marie MacDonald

#Depression #Grief #Panic

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.
-- Antony Sher

#Pain #Actors #Panic

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Men #Panic #Enough

I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God’s ***** as he completely turned his back on me.
-- Arthur Nersesian

#Bed #Cracks #Panic

There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.
-- Audrey Niffenegger

#Travel #World #Panic

Don't panic and lose hope even if there's a mountain in your pathtalk to the One who created the mountains.
-- Bilal Philips

#Mountain #Panic

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.
-- Bill Pullman

#Panic #Moments #Crisis

I am gripped by an existential panic.
-- Bret Easton Ellis

#Panic #Existential

Kylie didn't know which one of the fairies were doing it, or if it was both- she honestly didn't care- but the thousands of tiny pinpricks of panic started to fade. She felt safe and that was all that mattered.
-- C.C. Hunter

#Care #Safe #Panic

You can't make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in
-- Caleb Followill

#Love You #Giving #Panic

As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
-- Carol Tavris

#Hysteria #Panic #Moral

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Panic #Firsts #Conspiracy

Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.
-- Chris Lytle

#Two #Buttons #Panic

Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.
-- Chuck Noll

#Games #Leaving #Panic

There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Christian Inspirational #Heaven #Panic

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Worry #Panic #Moments

I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#Might #Rare Moments #Panic

Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had been installed as US Treasury Secretary to begin the bank bail out policy, with enormous benefit to Goldman Sachs, in the closing weeks of the Bush administration. Goldman Sachs was also instrumental in the collapse of the economy in Greece that started the 'euro panic' that later engulfed Ireland.
-- David Icke

#Bail #Benefits #Panic

Faith is the refusal to panic.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Panic #Refusal

I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
-- David Morrissey

#Panic #Starting #Projects

In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic.
-- Dean Keith Simonton

#Thrill #Panic #Skydiving

What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?
-- Derek Landy

#Space #Sanctuary #Panic

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.
-- Don Roff

#Procrastination #Panic #Efficiency

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
-- Edgar Degas

#Success #Panic #Kind

Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this center, the living God. Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or deluded lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by specters and soothed by placebos. If there is no center, there is no circumference.
-- Edmund Clowney

#Moving #Sirens #Panic

I make a project and I panic. Which is good, it can be a method. First, panic. Second, conquer panic by working. Third, find ways to solve your doubts.
-- Eduardo Souto de Moura

#Doubt #Panic #Way

Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.
-- Ellie Goulding

#Body #Panic

The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.
-- Emanuel Celler

#Being Different #Different #Panic

We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.
-- Emma Donoghue

#Would Be #Panic #Evening

I've learned that you can't make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they'll panic and give in.
-- Emo Philips

#I Love You #Giving #Panic

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Use #Panic #Flight

Behind the panic: financial warfare over future of global bank power
-- F. William Engdahl

#Warfare #Panic #Financial

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

#Knowing #Panic #Mental Health

I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.
-- Gilda Radner

#Panic #Wonderful

You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.
-- Greg Jackson

#Mma #Panic #Cages

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
-- Guy de Maupassant

#Men #East #Panic

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

#Running #Men #Panic

Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!
-- Heath Ledger

#Panic #Plans #According To Plan

Look, he isn’t even concerned.” I poured the tea. “He’s concerned, Mother. He just doesn’t panic, because he’s in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic.” “I can jog around the room pretending to scream if you would like,” Jim offered.
-- Ilona Andrews

#Mother #Tea #Panic

The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.... Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.
-- Ingmar Bergman

#Arseholes #Lilies #Panic

Vishous screamed. The only thing that was louder was the pop as the hip was relocated, as it were. And the last thing he saw before he checked out of the Conscious Inn & Suites was Jane's head whipping around in a panic. In her eyes was stark terror, as if the single worst thing that she could imagine was him in agony... And that was when he knew that he still loved her.
-- J.R. Ward

#Eye #Agony #Panic

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
-- Jack Kerouac

#Wisdom #Want #Panic

Panic is a horrible thing.
-- Jaclyn Smith

#Panic #Horrible

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.
-- James A. Garfield

#Hard Times #Pathways #Panic

We have only two modes - complacency and panic.
-- James R. Schlesinger

#Two #Panic #Complacency

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.
-- Jane Seymour

#Divorce #Panic #Calm

People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.
-- Javier Marías

#People #Panic #Bears

According to the British Journal of Psychiatry, ***** can cause panic attacks. I don't know . . . The only time I have ever seen a ***** user look panicky is when they are out of marijuana.
-- Jay Leno

#Marijuana #Panic #Causes

One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know I'm about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except that the one thing I can't escape from is the very thing I want to run away from... me.
-- Jenny Lawson

#Running #Panic #Next

Change can't be made within panic
-- Jessica Ortner

#Panic #Made

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.
-- John Buchanan Robinson

#Running #Gold #Panic

As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.
-- John Mills

#Betrayal #Panic

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.
-- John Mortimer

#Voice #Panic #Lifetime

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.
-- John Sununu

#Panic #Politician #Gas

When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic
-- John van der Wiel

#Chess #Panic

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.
-- Jonathan Stroud

#Ignorance #Together #Panic

ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.
-- Joyce Grenfell

#Block #Ideas #Panic

I've had paranoid panic attacks.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Panic Attacks #Panic #Paranoid

I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.
-- Katie Aselton

#Thinking #Panic Attacks #Panic

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.
-- Kelly Link

#Editors #Stories #Panic

If I panic, everyone else panics.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Panic

I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.
-- Kurt Fuller

#Believe #Panic #Auditions

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.
-- Laurie Lee

#Blood #Civilization #Panic

Just because I keep getting close and don't win these Majors, I must not panic.
-- Lee Westwood

#Winning #Panic

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
-- Leif Enger

#Curiosity #Heroism #Panic

It's never too early to panic.
-- Len Goodman

#Panic

I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic.
-- Lewis Black

#Thinking #Panic #Folks

I get panic attacks in big crowds.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Crowds #Panic Attacks #Panic

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.
-- Lily Rabe

#Thinking #Want #Panic

Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .
-- Lois McMaster Bujold

#Elbows #Panic #Miles

To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.
-- Marianne Faithfull

#Cancer #Panic #Firsts

Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON'T PANIC
-- Mark Gorman

#Worry #Panic

What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.
-- Mark Mobius

#Panic #Buttons #Patient

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.
-- Marvin Gaye

#Reality #Panic #Crime

When he held her that way, she felt so happy that it disturbed her. After he left, it would take her hours to fall asleep, and then when she woke up she would feel another onrush of agitated happiness, which was a lot like panic. She wished she could grab the happiness and mash it into a ball and hoard it and gloat over it, but she couldn't. It just ran around all over the place, disrupting everything.
-- Mary Gaitskill

#Fall #Panic #Way

Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens
-- Max Lucado

#Believe #Panic #Doe

Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!
-- Mehmet Murat Ildan

#Wise #Panic #Anything Can Happen

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.
-- Milton Resnick

#Fear #Memories #Panic

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.
-- Mira Grant

#Panic

Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.
-- N.K. Jemisin

#Panic #Blind #Enough

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Anxiety #Panic #Abiding

Surprise is the mother of panic.
-- Nick Murray

#Mother #Panic #Surprise

What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics.
-- Nouriel Roubini

#Two #Panic #Needs

Im a little untidy, and my favorite color is gray, and Im always scurrying around in a panic.
-- Olesya Rulin

#Color #Littles #Panic

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
-- Oswald Chambers

#Mistake #Inspiration #Panic

The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death
-- Patty Duke

#Panic Attacks #Panic #Stills

Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
-- Pema Chodron

#Spiritual #Panic #Path

There is almost always a major blip for whatever reason and we have learnt to expect it and not to panic.
-- Peter Cundill

#Panic #Reason

If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.
-- Peter Gallagher

#Over You #Feelings #Panic

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

#Panic #Investing #Making Money

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
-- Phyllis Bottome

#Red #Panic #Hot

Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?
-- Rachel Vincent

#Arches #Want #Panic

Bitcoin is getting there but it’s not there yet. When it gets there, expect governments to panic and society to be reshaped into something where governments cannot rely on taxing income nor wealth for running their operations.
-- Rick Falkvinge

#Running #Government #Panic

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.
-- Rick Warren

#Worry #Anxiety #Panic

I never panic when I get lost. I just change where it is I want to go.
-- Rita Rudner

#Panic #Want #Lost

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.
-- Robert Ludlum

#Panic #Crash #Turns

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.
-- Rupert Everett

#Birthday #Age #Panic