Quotes About Alarm

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

Though We alarm them, yet it only increases their tremendous excess.

We're the culture that cried wolf.

a flutter of wings rippling the fabric of the night. "Balastair!" chirps a voice. At first he thinks it's Cicero, but it's not, not at all—Cicero is still in the air, still chirping and screeching in alarm. "Erasmus," Balastair says with a small smile. "I've missed you.

We sat and drank, each with a separate past locked up in him, and fate's alarm clocks set at unrelated futures -- when, at last, a wrist was cocked, and eyes of consorts met.

There are two types of distraction: pleasure or terror.

The author is sounding the alarm that humanity is under invasion.

The author is sounding the alarm that humanity is under invasion. The attack is spiritual in nature, as you will discover through the reading this book. Certain forces are seeking to replace all of humanity's spiritual impulses, with impulses designed to sink humanity ever deeper into scientific materialism. Humanity is gradually becoming enmeshed in technology.

What is the matter?" asked the passenger, then, with mildly quavering speech. "Who wants me? Is it Jerry?

Five snoozes into your Monday alarm clock and you wonder if the $36 in your account will last the rest of your life if you quit.

Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

I could have written the entire incident off, but any time three people report a scream, they're calling not about a sound but about a memory that lives in the collective unconscious, one that goes back to the cave. When we are alarmed to the degree that we have to tell others about it, we're dipping into a primal knowledge about the darker potential of the gene pool. Or at least this has always been my belief.

And I pulled the alarm.

Excuse me. I think something's burning in the fridge.

her lunch shift. Then all of a sudden, I heard this giant WHOOM! People started yelling, the fire alarm started blaring, and I could smell smoke. A second later, Mom was there. "Come on, Rafe," she said. "We have to go—right now!" And she hustled me out the back door.

In North Korea, when there is an alarm, it means that there is a war drill. It means that you need to run.

SSSSSCCCCRRIIIIIIITCH!!!!!!!!!

She thought it might have been his thought that wakened her, as he crept toward the solitary holding; she thought that the danger in his thoughts had reached out to awaken her as surely as an alarm bell ringing out across the night.

The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.

Suggestion: when you find an intruder, it might be a good idea to raise the alarm.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

It has occurred to me since that perhaps what we call depression isn't really a disorder at all but, like physical pain, an alarm of sorts, alerting us that something is undoubtedly wrong; that perhaps it is time to stop, take a time out, take as long as it takes, and attend to the unaddressed business of filing our souls.

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

We took the stairs to the second floor and ran into Dillan Ruddick, the building super. He had a wet vac going, sucking up water from the soggy hall carpet. 'Thanks for saving my apartment,' I said to him. 'No problemo,' Dillan said. 'I've got it down to a science. The alarm goes off and I run straight to your apartment and grab the fire extinguishers.