Alarms Quotes

• If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Positive Attitude, Diversity

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• 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.

  Gail Porter

  New York, Coffee, Get Up

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• Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Truth, Issues, People

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• As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Order, Break Through, Circles

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Get Up, Feels

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• 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.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Wife, Literature, Affair

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

  Graham Chapman

  Nice, Looks, Faces

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• Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

  J. C. Watts

  Numbers, Black, May

  "What Color Is a Conservative?". Book by Chriss Winston and J. C. Watts, abcnews.go.com. October 22, 2002.

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• Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves... They do everything but watch television.

  Lewis Thomas

  Children, War, Army

  "A Long Line of Cells: Collected Essays".

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• One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Land, Opposites

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.472

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• OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Pride, Envy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

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• Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.

  Thomas Hood

  War, Soldier, Battle

  'Faithless Nelly Gray'

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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mars, Invasion, Used

  "Not Even a Hedgehog" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 7, 2004.

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Dying, Death And Dying

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 13, 1595.

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• I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Wife, Use

  They're not laughing now ..., www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Laurence Sterne

  Marriage, Numbers, Vagueness

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• All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Parent, Forever

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Weekend: A Comedy in Two Acts”, p.28, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Fire, Would Be

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• I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

  George Combe

  Fear, Air, Gentleman

  George Combe (1841). “Notes on the United States of North America: During a Phrenological Visit in 1838-9-40”, p.85

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Work, Men, Clock

  "Picasso On Art: A Selection of Views".

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• Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

  Rita Coolidge

  Funny, Humor, Opportunity

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• O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

  William Cowper

  House, Solitude, Sage

  1782 Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez'.

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• 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.

  Everett Dirksen

  Wish, Expansion, Embrace

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• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christmas, Children, Moving

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.95, Faber & Faber

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