Alarms Quotes - Page 2

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears

If I wore a peek-a-boo dress, it would be like turning in a false alarm.

Raw pain alarms. us. It reminds us that life isn't as orderly as we'd hoped. We demand that pain settle down before we shuffle it off to the quiet table. We want pain to stay in its own little section, want to keep it from spilling over into the other parts of life. Just like . lunch trays. Keep pain in its own little compartment.

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side

It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.