Chuck Todd Quotes

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

When I was 11, I was terrified about the world.

When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.

I actually didn't enjoy being a child particularly at all even though I had nice parents in a comfortable place to live. Just because I was too confused in generating too many answers for myself that just scared me more.

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

There's so much to be afraid of.

Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray.

I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Fear has many faces.

I saw my city gripped by fear. Because of violent acts committed by illegal aliens, my residents were afraid to shop - or even drive - on certain streets.

The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.

There's, like, a dark needle or a nail that lives at the back of all of our heads, and that's your fear.

There are many reasons to worry; the evening news is full of them.

You have to write about what scares you.

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

The confidence and charisma it takes to stand up in front of a group of children absolutely terrifies me.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

There were times I'd be nervous walking home from elementary school, thinking, 'If that red tag from the power company saying our lights are turned off is on the door handle, I don't know what I'll do.'