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"It made our hair stand up in panic fear." »Sophocles
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"If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what REALLY throws you into a panic." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"When solving a "panic" you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system." »Peter van der Linden
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"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation." »Vannevar Bush
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"Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball." »Charles V
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"Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball." »Charles V
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"Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." »Norman Vincent Peale
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"I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother." »W. C. Fields
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"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic." »Anais Nin
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"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'." »Phillip Lopate
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"The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." »William Gladstone
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"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be." »William Hazlitt
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"It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
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"The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War." »Edmund White
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"It is expected from the government officials and the financial sector to selectively report on the good news to avoid investors panic and maintain confidence in the economy. Unfortunately building confidence has been the name of the game since the beginning of the crisis rather than real economic reforms." »Med Jones
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"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." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face Freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-Bade us defend our violated shore." »Simon Pokagon
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"Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are prepared to use it; when they do not require it they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would be unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiotcy, or be struck with paralysis." »Herodotus
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"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." »Neil Armstrong
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"I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse." »Brian Eno
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"What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing." »Andrew Schneider
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"Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today." »Godfather, The
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