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“Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.”

Policy Criticism Abuse Substitutes Panic Signals

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“It made our hair stand up in panic fear.”

Made Hair Panic

Book:Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

“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.”

People Goal Crime Information Personality Drug Speed Commit Rational Command Alternatives Panic Prescriptions Our Words Dissemination

Author:Gail Sheehy

“Panic, not the task, is the enemy.”

Enemy Tasks Panic

Book:Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers

Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers

“Panic is our great enemy.”

Book:Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers

Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers

“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.”

Individual Race Sacrifice Childhood Painful Panic Avert Placating

Author:Rebecca West

“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.”

Knows Feels Lost Force United States Environment Praying Degrees Weather Panic Entitled Resent

Author:Eleanor Perenyi

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

Actors Differences Simple Directors Panic

Author:Alan Rickman

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

Thinking Love Writing Humans Sometimes Form Fear Situation Wonder Depression Madness Paint Manage Therapy Panic Inherent Sometimes I Wonder

Author:Graham Greene

“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.”

Source: A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories

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

Way Ideas Block Limitation Panic Scarce

Author:Joyce Grenfell

“Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.”

Long Difficult Term Stress Strategy Long Term Panic Difficult Days

Author:Starhawk

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

Way Done Anxiety Efficient Panic Rockets Things Done Panic Attacks

Author:Sandra Tsing Loh

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

Men Soul Seems Panic Tails

Book:the conqueror

Source: the conqueror

“Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!”

Happens Universe Wise Wise Words Panic Defence Anything Can Happen

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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.”

World Certain Anxiety Safety Instinct Panic Inward Pulling Temperament Panic Attacks

Author:Aimee Liu

“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.”

Ifs May Doe Book Past Suffering Reading Parent Answers Generations Baby Offers Instinct Over You Panic Parental Inadequacy Past Generations

Author:Libby Copeland

“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.”

Ifs Knows Littles Bits Members Little Bit Disorder Panic Family Members Bipolar Panic Attacks

Author:Eric Millegan

“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.”

May War Matter Seems America House Seeing Economic Iraq China Spread Iran Afghanistan Panic Syria Small Business Korea Folds North Korea Georgia Doldrums

Author:Richard Schiff

“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.”

Knows Eye Actors Acting Watches Tools Panic

Author:Andy Serkis

“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.”

Trying Situation Harder Panic Seriousness Soda

Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

“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.”

Trying Tears Hero Universal Midst Scream Panic Audacity Composure

Author:Lidiya Ginzburg

“Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery.”

Has Beens Goal Powerful Worry Type Drug Anxiety Tests Improvement Recovery Treatment Panic Public Speaking Shyness Phobia Panic Attacks Drug Free

Author:David D. Burns

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

Ifs Two London Snow Panic

Author:Sam Riley

“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.”

Giving Periods Giving Up Finals Investing Financial Driven Massive Bubbles Decline Collapse Panic Outsiders Crash Distress Sucker Hanging On Insiders

Author:Charles P. Kindleberger

“The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.”

Persons Winning Simple Panic

Book:Panic

Source: Panic

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

Care Events Patient Following Terrorism Expected Health Care Related Panic Providers

Author:Tom Ridge

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

Games Plans Leaving Panic Game Plan

Author:Chuck Noll

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

Believe I Can Panic Auditions

Author:Kurt Fuller

“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.”

Ifs Needs Two Left Periods Assets Bubbles Panic Crash Irrational Mania Exuberance Market Failure

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Use Dream Bigs Jobs Next Company Stupid Figures Smart Lays What You Want Pursue Panic Salary Big Companies You Re Stupid

Author:Bruce Schneier

“I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.”

World Important Order Tasks Priorities Experts Massive Panic Deadline

Author:Lucy Hawking

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

Ifs Loses Mountain Panic

Author:Bilal Philips

“And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you are without yourself, adrift. I should describe the filthy province of mind, the blighted district inside, the place so crowded you cannot raise the eyelids of your eyes. Your shoulders are drawn and your head has fallen and your chest is bruised by the constant assault of your heart.”

Should Mind Heart Eye Loneliness Raises Constant Shoulders Fallen Chests Panic Assault Crowded Provinces Hysteria Sweeping Filthy Bruised Eyelids Adrift

Author:Hilary Thayer Hamann

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

Giving Can Do Love You Panic One Love Stalking Funny Love Funniest Love I Have A Crush Crushing On Someone

Author:Caleb Followill

“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.”

Thinking Knows Projects Panic Ahead Of Time Panic Attacks

Author:Katie Aselton

“This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”

People Said Facts Action Sound Moral Hell Poet Crisis Panic Alarms Reserved Complacent Neutrality Hottest Moral Crisis

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.”

Life War Age Death Imagination Ability Learning Military Excellence Soldier Acquire Cowardice Panic Distinguished Greatest Gifts

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers to subvert their institutions, in all these cases they are unfit for liberty.”

Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays

“Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that, if people could see just how many of us there are, some in very important places, the negative stereotype would vanish overnight. ...It is far more realistic to suppose that, 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.”

Source: Outlander: Short Stories and Essays

“One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so as to secure greater elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade and to prevent the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassment of a financial panic.”

Form Law Greater Increase Trade Financial Available Secure Administration Reform Limitation Panic Currency Banking Embarrassment Monetary Elasticity

Book:Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.”

May Form Energy Panic Stagnation

Author:W. Graham Scroggie

“Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.”

America Money Majors Standards Gold Financial Panic 1930s Gold Standard

Author:Paul Krugman

“Attorney General John Ashcroft said there is a new credible terrorist threat. He said everything is under control; not to panic. And then he went back to his harmonically sealed bunker.”

Said Threat Terrorist Panic Attorney Credible Bunkers

Author:Jay Leno

“Surprise is the mother of panic.”

Mother Surprise Panic

Author:Nick Murray

“Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.”

Believe Heart Doe Done Use Imagination Knowledge Practice Ignorance Terror Deeds Conquer Panic Shrinks Attempting Liable Encouragers

Book:Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

“Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.”

Ifs Time Turns Beloved Boredom Routine Usual Panic

Author:Mason Cooley

“Henry Ford has several times sneered at unproductive stockholders.... Well, now. Let's see. Who made Henry Ford's own automobile company possible? The stockholders who originally advanced money to him. Who makes it possible for you and me to be carried to and from business by train or street car? Stockholders.... Who made our vast telephone and telegraph service possible? Stockholders.... Were stockholders all over the country to withdraw their capital from the enterprises in which they are invested, there would be a panic ... on a scale never before known.”

Wells Made Country Would Be Company Known Streets Car Train Scales Enterprise Panic Telephones Automobile Unproductive Telegraph

Author:B. C. Forbes

“The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.”

Should Company Intelligent Investing Investors Panic Good Company Great Company

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.”

People War Play Wish Fear Politician Importance Factors Panic Overlooked Stampede

Author:Maude Royden