Quotes and Sayings About Alarms
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Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.
-- Heather Brewer -
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.
-- Hector Hugh Munro -
The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.
-- Horace Walpole -
If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty.
-- Horace Walpole -
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
-- Hortense Calisher -
Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
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 -
I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.
-- Jack Osbourne -
A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.
-- James Dobson -
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
-- Jane Austen -
I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.
-- Jane Stanton Hitchcock -
I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?
-- Janet Evanovich -
Anger is an alarm system, signaling the presence of nothing more than fear. It tells us we are working at cross-purposes to our own happiness, fearing the loss of something more than we enjoy the experience of having it.
-- Jesse D. Jennings -
How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?
-- John Cheever -
This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
-- John F. Kennedy -
Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.
-- John Gummer -
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.
-- Jonathan Ames -
Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.
-- Joseph Hall -
To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.
-- Judith N. Shklar -
The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.
-- Kelly Link -
Perhaps the thought of going to hell doesn't alarm you, because you don't believe in it. That may be your belief, but if hell exists, your lack of belief won't make it go away. Standing on a freeway and saying, "I don't believe in trucks" won't make the 18-wheeler disappear.
-- Kirk Cameron -
Beau, will you please watch the entrance for us?" "What should I do if I see anyone suspicious?" "Kick a car," Iain said. "Kick a car?" "To set off the alarm." "Gotcha," Beau said. "Good thinking.
-- Kirsten Miller -
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.
-- Kirsty Gallacher -
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.
-- Martin Amis -
Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.
-- Martin Durkin -
I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.
-- Martin Freeman -
There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,
-- Maryrose Wood -
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.]
-- Ovid -
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
-- Pablo Picasso -
I don`t set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
-- Patricia Highsmith
