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Quotes About Alarm

What do you have?" "A real bad feeling.
~ Janet Evanovich
Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.
~ Bret Stephens
pushing in from the edges. My heart raced. A high-pitched ring pulsed in my ears. Searing pain infused my nose and head as if my sinuses had been
~ Todd Borg
A moment before this voice spoke, Lord Emsworth had been smirking. He now congealed, and the smile passed from his lips like breath off a razor, to be succeeded be a tense look of anxiety and alarm.
~ p g wodehouse
He keeps looking at me so oddly." "Oddly? How? Give me an imitation." Considering that she had only about a second and a half to do it in, I must say it was a jolly fine exhibition. She opened her mouth and eyes pretty wide and let her jaw drop sideways, and managed to look so like a dyspeptic calf that I recognized the symptoms immediately. "Oh, that's all right," I said. "No need to be alarmed. He's simply in love with you.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Something was very, very wrong.
~ Dan Brown
People scream and run for coyer.
~ Dan Simmons
Suddenly a scream froze her in her tracks. It
~ Dan Simmons
"cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend"
~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
And finally the gray yielded to dark, the clock made another try at striking the hour, missed, waited, tried again unheard, again, until the alarm stung the silence into another sunless day
~ William Gaddis
They are frightened of the air.
~ William Golding
The conscience is the innate mechanism God created in human nature to sound an inner alarm in an attempt to prevent people from taking harmful actions.
~ Henry Hon
Although that patience did come out, Pierre did not join the army, but remained in deserted Moscow ever in the same state of agitation, irresolution, and alarm, yet at the same time joyfully expecting something terrible.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The Christless cults and deity-dishonoring mushroom religions of this midnight hour tempt the Lord God. Will no one sound the alarm?
~ Leonard Ravenhill
The flaming ruins of a five-alarm sunset smoldered in the window behind her, which was currently pointing west. "It
~ Lev Grossman
Death and destruction!" the hare called out as it ran, in case it hadn't made itself clear before. "Disappointment and despair!
~ Lev Grossman
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.
~ Sandra Cisneros
A misfortune never makes me uneasy provided I know in what it consists; but it is my nature to be afraid of darkness, I tremble at the appearance of it. The sight of the most hideous monster would, I am of opinion, alarm me but little; but if by night I were to see a figure in a white sheet I should be afraid of it.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
And then, before I could shout in alarm, the tear spilled free—and there was nothing for me to do but rush past and, with the smallest draft, ever so slightly alter its flight. The tear landed, safely, on her cheek. Her eyes snapped open in surprise.
~ Unknown
Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.
~ Tom Spanbauer
other side of the pavilion, he hissed, "Your Majesty, I think there's one of them right behind me." The dragon next to him looked around in alarm, spotted Winter, and leaped backward, nearly knocking one of her companions off the platform. "Oh my gosh, is that what they look like?" she cried. "Why's it pointy all over?" "Look at its tail!" yelped another. "It really is all spiky!" "And can you feel how cold it is?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
~ Paul Simon
Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.
~ William Shakespeare
By steady, persistent steps the sense of security departed from Roman Britain. Its citizens felt by daily experience a sense that the world-wide system of which they formed a partner province was in decline. They entered a period of alarm.
~ Winston S. Churchill