Panic Quotes - Page 9

• As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

  Daniel Dennett

  Stupid, Worst Enemy, Self

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• Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.

  Susan Faludi

  Marriage, Single Women, Columnists

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.

  Patrick Dodson

  Leadership, Strong, People

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• It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

  Northrop Frye

  Block, Emotional, Thinking

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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• When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic

  John van der Wiel

  Chess, Humour, Knows

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• One day, because they realize for some reason or other that they must stop credit expansion, the banks do stop creating new credit to lend. Then the firms that have expanded cannot get credit to pay for the factors of production necessary for the completion of the investment projects which they have already committed themselves. Because they cannot pay their bills, they sell off their inventories cheap. Then comes the panic, the breakdown. And the depression starts.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Creating, One Day, Expansion

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• 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

  Administration, Bail, Benefits

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• Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age.

  Richard Lindzen

  Age, Degrees, Generations

  "The Slow, Certain Death of the Global Warming Theory" by Alan Caruba, www.cnsnews.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907, 1929 and 1987.In economies and politics, as in war, an astonishing number of people die, like the man on the railway crossing, defending their right of way. This is a poorly developed instinct in Switzerland. No country so firmly avows the principles of private enterprise but in few have the practical concessions to socialism been more numerous and varied.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, War, Men

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• 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, Mental Health, Mental Illness

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• Government is afraid that people may think the worst and panic about these creepy horrible invaders. So the idea is: We have to avoid panic by all means.

  Gordon Cooper

  Mean, Thinking, Government

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• For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public. Why? Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means

  Gordon Cooper

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.

  Robert De Niro

  Crush, Good Day, Writing

  "Girls and OCD" by Tara Fass and Lisa Jonsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2014.

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  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

  Wonderful, I've Learned, I Can

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes you just have to be brave. You have to be strong. Sometimes you just can’t give in to weak thoughts. You have to beat down those devils that get inside your head and try to make you panic. You struggle along, putting one foot a little bit ahead of the other, hoping that when you go backwards it won’t be too far backwards, so that when you start going forwards again you won’t have too much to catch up

  James Marsden

  Strong, Struggle, Feet

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

  Heath Ledger

  Dark, Plans, According To Plan

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", 2008.

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

  Jay Leno

  Marijuana, Causes, Looks

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• 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, Has Beens, Unproductive

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• As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.

  Cloris Leachman

  Drama, Cowboy, Pigs

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• Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

  Lily James

  Giving, Tables, Speech

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

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• I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

  William Petersen

  Rehearsal, Panic Attacks, Able

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• I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Stress, Thinking, Shining

  "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers - Geoffrey Rush". Interview with James Ashwood, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

  Emma Bunton

  Goes On, Panic Attacks, Stage

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

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• When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be expertly scheduled, from shopping to showers to panic attacks.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Coffee, Home, Suicidal

  Sam Lipsyte (2005). “Home Land: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.

  Jacob Schiff

  Country, Credit, Adequate

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