David Ignatius Quotes

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

Closer to a fight, I can really feel my heartbeat in my chest. I can hear it beat through my mouth, this 'gunk, gunk, gunk' rhythm.

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

Fear loves the idea of danger.

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.

It's amazing how much of a bodily experience being scared is. It doesn't take very long of hyperventilating to feel like you're going to pass out. It's one of those things where being scared is more of a physiological response that you can pretty easily manipulate. So in those types of scenes, it just takes a lot of energy.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

Anytime you're in fear for your life, it's intense.

If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.