“But she had nothing. She had forbidden music. Grating her fingers in the bark, she damned the audience. Panic seized her. Blood… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Our capacity for calm ultimately depends on our levels of expectation: if we suppose that most things normally turn out to be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
“The obsession with security at any price petrifies us, and we increase our fear by trying to eliminate risk. That is what… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
Barabas placed a stack on the table and held the chair out for me. “For you.” “I’m hungry and I don’t have… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The Panic of 1819 exerted a profound effect on American economic thought. As the first great financial depression, similar to a modern… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Pause and remember - Stop mentally abusing yourself. Stop agonizing over your past mistakes and worrying about the future. Life is hard… — Jennifer Young Copy Share Image
While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back… — Ivor Cutler Copy Share Image
Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
“I start to walk out of the room, but I hear him start to panic and his breathing gets labored. He reaches… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Bliss?” I called. “Yeah?” “Check the drawers of the nightstand! She was playing with it in the middle of the night, and… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Out of the bitter experiences of the panic of 1819 emerged the beginnings of the Jacksonian movement, dedicated to hard money, the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
As we have been continuously counseled for more than 60 years, let us have some food set aside that would sustain us… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder… — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
“If you've no idea where you're headed to, then don't panic. Remember: some people are born to become amateurs rather than professionals,… — Shivam Chaudhary Copy Share Image
“You remember the old Roadrunner cartoons, where the coyote would run off a cliff and keep going, until he looked down and… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isn’t given the chance to live because I don’t have a pen… — Adi Alsaid Copy Share Image
“It’s a cruel fact of war that it takes little more than applying pressure to one finger to end another person’s life.… — Trevor D. Richardson Copy Share Image
Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them.… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
I've been through a lot of different situations, and the key thing I've learned is: Don't panic. That's the advice I give… — Adrian Peterson Copy Share Image
“You’re getting ahead of yourself, Danika!” she said bracingly. “One thing at a time. Those home things can be wrong! Don’t panic… — Madelaine Montague Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing is knowing that those thoughts of panic are probably going to go into your brain, and just… — Madison Keys Copy Share Image
Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
There's no worse feeling than being in front of a guy with six-pack abs, muscles popping out of his shoulders, veins popping… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
You get hooked on it: 'I want, I want, I want, I need, I need,' and you can't hear or see anything.… — Andrey Rublev Copy Share Image
“He was a peculiar sight. Tears rolling down his face, shouting to drown the sound of the singing rabbit; he said he… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image