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• It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

  Sophocles

  Hair, Made

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.217, University of Chicago Press

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• Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Abuse, Criticism, Substitutes

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• I don't drive, so one of my assistants drives me to my writing room, and I have a calendar on the wall telling me how much time I have left, and how far behind I am. I look at it and panic, and decide which scene to work on. And you sit there plonking notes until something makes sense, and you don't think about it any more. Good tunes come when you're not thinking about it.

  Hans Zimmer

  Wall, Writing, Thinking

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

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• Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Motivational, Writing, Procrastination

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• The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should start the engagement process. Once you know this, the nature of the relationship changes. You view actions differently, the pressure to have sex increases, and your relationship with others is affected. If you're considering getting engaged, write out the sentence Staying married is hard work fifty times. ...Though I say this with some humor, I think these points bear repeating: Don't underestimate the work involved, but don't panic either.

  Kay Coles James

  Sex, Hard Work, Writing

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• I'm not a panic guy. I don't do that. Can't. When you're a leader, you can never panic, no matter what's happening. The building could be falling down. Fire could be going all places. Somebody has to make a decision on how to get out.

  Herman Edwards

  Fall, Fire, Leader

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• The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

  Rebecca West

  Sacrifice, Race, Childhood

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• Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Weather, United States, Degrees

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• The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

  Alan Rickman

  Simple, Differences, Directors

  "Alan Rickman Returns To Directing With 'A Little Chaos'". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. June 26, 2015.

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• During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying child. As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

  Carol Tavris

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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• By about a week before the big day, you will have received less than half of your invitation response cards. Panic sets in when it occurs to you that everyone invited will actually show up. You couldn't have made it easier for your guests. You have included a card that had boxes for 'will attend' or 'will not attend.' You included a pre-addressed, stamped envelope. How inconvenient could it be for them simply to check it off and drop it in in a mailbox? Very inconvenient. You, evil bride-to-be, are confronting two basic human fears. A terror of correspondence and the dread of decision-making.

  Mimi Pond

  Two, Evil, Decision

  Mimi Pond (1993). “A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories”, Plume Books

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

  Joyce Grenfell

  Block, Ideas, Way

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• Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Anxiety, Done, Panic Attacks

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

  Chris Lytle

  Two, Buttons, Great Sales

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• He's got the whole bad-boy-in-need-of-redemption thing going on, but the catch is, most bad boys don't want redemption. They like being bad. They like the power they get from striking fear and panic into the hearts of mothers everywhere

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mother, Heart, Boys

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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• Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you're breaithing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can manage is a croak. Your hands wriggle and shake. Somewhere a dam has cracked open and a flood of cold sweat spills, drenches your body. You want to scream. You would if you could. Cut you have to breathe to scream. Panic.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Drinking, Cutting, Air

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.58, A&C Black

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• When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

  John Marsden

  Fall, Thinking, Giving

  John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I get rational when I panic.

  Amy Hempel

  Rational

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work ten lifetimes to make up such a sum. Always supposing that it wasn't one of a kind. Panic was no longer merely rearing. It was thundering through her at full throttle. There was only one thing to be done, she realized. The mature, responsible, adult thing to do. Hide the evidence.

  Alexandra Ivy

  Supposing That, Adults, Done

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• And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

  Brennan Manning

  Jobs, Insecure, Men

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.19, Multnomah

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• Charlotte leaned forward across the table. “The Dark Sisters never mentioned what use they intended to make of your abilities, did they?” “You know about the Magister.” Tessa said. “They said they were preparing me for him.” “For him to do what?” Will asked. “Eat you for dinner?” Tessa shook her head. “To – to marry me, they said.” “To marry you?” Jessamine was openly scornful. “That’s ridiculous. They were probably going to blood sacrifice you and didn’t want you to panic.” (page 78)

  Cassandra Clare

  Sacrifice, Dark, Blood

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Letting Go, Shoes, World

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• Alice?” She spun toward the door, her skirts whirling softly. “Yes?” she forced out. “Do you know what I am holding in my hand?” “No.” “Care to guess?” “A pitchfork?” she asked in a stilted attempt at levity, hoping to invoke his earlier, playful mood. “No, my dear,” he answered drily. “A key to your room.” “What?”she breathed, aghast. “I should hate to have to use it.” “You have a key to this room?” “Mm-hmm.” She took a step toward the door, panic rising up in her throat. “You’re bluffing!” “Do you wish me to prove it?

  Gaelen Foley

  Hate, Rising Up, Keys

  Gaelen Foley (2002). “Lord of Fire”, p.103, Ballantine Books

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• I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Long, Silence, Waiting

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mean, Breathing, Desire

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

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