Panic Quotes - Page 21

• But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in facing derision, courage in facing the hostility of one's own herd. In these, the bravest soldiers are often lamentably deficient. And above all there is the courage to think calmly and rationally in the face of danger, and to control the impulse of panic fear or panic rage.

  Bertrand Russell

  Courage, Mean, Fighting

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.364, Routledge

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• I used alcohol for my panic attacks, to manage stressors.

  Bill N. Lacy

  Alcohol, Abuse, Panic Attacks

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• The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck.

  Tennessee Williams

  Patience, Lonely, Hurt

  Tennessee Williams (2010). “Tales of Desire (New Directions Pearls)”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• 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, Auditions, I Can

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

  David Brooks

  Inspirational, Graduation, Messages

  Commencement Address at Rice University in Houston, May 14, 2011.

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• A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, 'There's no danger to the public.' They do this before they themselves know what has happened because they are terrified that the public might react violently, either by panic or by revolt.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Media, Nuclear, Submarines

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• When I'm under the gun and I've got pressure on me, I don't panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.

  Magic Johnson

  Motivational, Gun, Looks

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

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• 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

  Mathematical Equations, Firsts, Conspiracy

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• Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is.

  Aimee Liu

  Safety, Anxiety, Inward

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• There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom from the suffering of past generations of parents. Does the book you're reading contradict itself repeatedly, require you to override all your parental instincts, or send you into a panic over your own inadequacy? If so, burn it.

  Libby Copeland

  Baby, Book, Reading

  "The Worst Baby Advice Ever" by Libby Copeland, www.slate.com. November 23, 2012.

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• If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from.

  Eric Millegan

  Bipolar, Littles, Panic Attacks

  "Eric Millegan on Living (and Acting) with Bipolar Disorder: Part 2" by Jamie Frevele, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I wanted to die. I had a panic attack.

  Shania Twain

  Divorce, Panic Attacks, Wanted To Die

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• It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and Georgia and then where? To Syria? To North Korea? To China? That we in America are in economic doldrums and are seeing small businesses fold and houses reclaimed by banks and a smouldering panic that is palpable everywhere.

  Richard Schiff

  War, America, Iran

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.

  Andy Serkis

  Eye, Acting, Watches

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• We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Coward, He Man

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4511, Delphi Classics

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• You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business -- that takes a lot of audacity.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Hero, Tears, Trying

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• We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

  Sam Riley

  Two, Snow, London

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.

  Charles P. Kindleberger

  Giving Up, Finals, Investing

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• Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers.

  Tom Ridge

  Events, Care, Patient

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• Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.

  Chuck Noll

  Games, Leaving, Plans

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• Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it, and then as it gets closer and closer to the time when you must breathe, how urgent the need becomes, the lust and the hunger to breathe. And then the panic sets in when you begin to think that you won't be able to breathe - and finally, when you take in air and the anxiety subsides...that's what it's like to be a vampire and need blood.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Thinking, Air, Blood

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• In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Men, Soul, Tails

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• The only situation which might justify panic is one in which panic is likely to help. Such a situation never arises. Though pretended panic may sometimes cause a useful diversion, real panic can never be anything other than a waste of energy.

  Simon Brett

  Real, Energy, May

  Simon Brett (2011). “Mrs. Pargeter's Package”, p.136, Severn House Publishers Ltd

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• If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

  Jane Rule

  Gay, People, Inspire

  Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.247, Open Road Media

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• Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.

  Gail Sheehy

  People, Goal, Personality

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