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Quotes About Alarm

Well," I said after a moment, inconsequentially, "I suppose it did work." He stared at me, outrage dawning, and I started laughing, helplessly, almost snorting: I was dizzy with magic and alarm.
~ Naomi Novik
Steven awoke to his alarm ringing at seven a.m. Waking up, the first disappointment of every day, was as usual followed by its faithful friend, dread.
~ Cecelia Ahern
It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!
~ Thomas Mann
Currently he was going through the entire Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout, He'd just finished Murder by the Book and was in the process of downloading Triple Jeopardy to his e-reader when the alarm went off.
~ Keith R.A. DeCandido
I have often said that there was no cause for feeling disturbed at being misrepresented in the press. It would be only when they began to say things detrimental to me which were true that I should feel alarm.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Trust that what causes alarm probably should, because when it comes to danger, intuition is always right in at least two important ways: 1. It is always in response to something. 2. It always has your best interest at heart.
~ Gavin de Becker
We note that the Library has not had fire alarm drills for the last two hundred years. This is because we found the two default responses unhelpful. These being "running away screaming" or "resigning yourself to death while clutching your favourite books." Librarians with more useful suggestions should contact Yves via email and attach a full benefit-threat analysis.
~ Genevieve Cogman
the Library has not had fire alarm drills for the last two hundred years. This is because we found the two default responses unhelpful. These being "running away screaming" or "resigning yourself to death while clutching your favourite books.
~ Genevieve Cogman
I wasn't moaning your name. I was shrieking in alarm." "That was the sexiest throaty shrieking I've ever heard.
~ Ilona Andrews
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
~ Ilona Andrews
Nest Thermostat owners like the carbon monoxide link. If Nest Protect's carbon monoxide alarm goes off, the Nest Thermostat automatically turns off the gas furnace.
~ Tony Fadell
I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?
~ Janet Evanovich
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
thread of panic in her voice.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The aspirant should not feel discouraged, for they will lose their past momentum and force from their parting kick after some time and die by themselves. Instead of getting alarmed at their presence, the aspirant should plunge himself in dynamic spiritual practices.
~ Swami Sivananda
Something's wrong!" he said, which was the understatement of the year.
~ Neal Shusterman
Could the doomsayers have been correct, but rung the alarm a little too early? After all, Earth is finite, so the amount of energy it contains must also be finite. Isn't it wholly rational to expect fossil fuels to run out?
~ Charles C. Mann
Smoke rose into the sky in great, juddering pillars. In
~ Charles C. Mann
Everything hurts. People are talking in the halls, but no one seems to be evacuating the building. This is the nature of New York City: alarms go off so often that no one wants to respond to them until things start burning down or blowing up in front of their eyes.
~ Charlie Huston
A campaign gives you focus. You wake up to a different hotel alarm clock every day, but you know your mission.
~ John Dickerson
I set my alarm for 7:30 A.M., but it's really hard for me to wake up in the mornings.
~ Hannah Brown
Everyone was doomsdaying today. *
~ Tim Lebbon
Reveille came in the form of an electric buzzer, the kind associated with a cheap alarm clock. That was good news. No bugle--he hated bugles in the morning.
~ Tom Clancy
My preference was the demolition of the lobby altogether. [Of all of my books], only Sula has this 'entrance.' The others refuse the 'presentation,' refuse the seductive safe harbor; the line of demarcation between…them and us. Refuse, in effect, to cater to the diminished expectations of the reader, or his or her alarm heightened by the emotional luggage one carries into the black-topic text….
~ Toni Morrison