Linda Colley Quotes

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

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

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

I'm afraid to go to sleep; I don't like to lose control of myself. I don't like chauffeurs, either. I like to be in charge of my own destiny.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Really it's always things that scare me like loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen... Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary.

You're scared of what you can't control

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.

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.

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that.

I've done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You know, where the place that you think is safe and the people that you think are safe and far from evil are suddenly just slaughtered by it, and you have no control over it.

It's just scary to think how fast everything is rolling, and you can't stop it.

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

My biggest fears I can't talk about. And my biggest fear is that those fears happen, and I can't stop it.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

After the tragic events of Manchester, with the senseless loss of life and the fear that came from knowing my family was unsafe and that I was completely powerless to protect them, I went to a very dark place with no tools to handle the feelings that came along with the devastation of the attack.