Alarms Quotations

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

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

Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.

I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad.

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.

But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.

I don`t set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

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

I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

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

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.

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

Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

A car alarm is a way for a car to tell everyone that its owner is an asshole.

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

But don’t let them talk you into anything you don’t feel comfortable with.” “They’re my friends.” “So what?” He shrugged. “If your friends walked off a cliff, would you do it too?” “Why would they walk off a cliff?” I asked in alarm. “Is someone having problems at home?

Kat," Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows. "Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell." "I let myself in; hope that's okay." Hale smiled. "Or the alarm." She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed. "You're due for an upgrade." Hale propped himself against the antique headboard and squinted up at her. "She returns." He crossed his arms across his bare chest. "You know, I could be naked in here.

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

You know what wakes me up? A tongue in the ass. There is no alarm clock on that one, you are up, you are shaking, you are in a karate stance.....the day has begun.

Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

Tom Ridge announced a new color-coded alarm system. ... Green means everything's okay. Red means we're in extreme danger. And champagne-fuschia means we're being attacked by Martha Stewart.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet.

Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

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

Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box.

Program Alarm, it's a 1202.

I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?

Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

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.

Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act.

Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.

How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever.

A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a built-in alarm clock. The moment you realize you've lost the now, come back to the now.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.

If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock.

whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off

Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.

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

But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.

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

I'll take a quiet life And a handshake of carbon monoxide And no alarms and no surprises

We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.

There will be guards,” Bast said. “And traps. And alarms. You can bet the house is heavily charmed to keep out gods.” “Magicians can do that?” I asked. I imagined a big can of pesticide labeled God-Away.

I read the signs,I got all my stars aligned,My amulets, my charms,I set all my false alarms,So I'll be someoneWho won't be forgotten.

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm

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

being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.

[I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

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

A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.

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's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

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

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

I use a smoke alarm as a timer.

We’ve all got to worry some-but we can’t let it conquer us. Instead, let it alarm us.

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

A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?