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Quotes About Alarm

She clutched him tightly, in alarm. She protected herself trembling. Because life was in peril. She loved the world, loved what had been created - she loved with nausea.
~ Clarice Lispector
and you know my alarm goes off at six thirty yet you couldn't even wait for half an hour because you're too fucking selfish. So yes, thanks a lot, Nathan. I've had four hours' sleep and now I have to get our kids up and get them ready for school and
~ Lisa Jewell
WHEN UNCLE STAN rose in the morning, he somehow managed to wake the entire household. No one complained, as he was the breadwinner in the family, and in any case he was cheaper and more reliable than an alarm clock.
~ Jeffrey Archer
There's an intruder in my OoAh!
~ Tyra Banks
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
They started with Big Ben. It's always got to be relayed direct from Westminster, the real thing, never from disc. That's got to be firmly fixed in the listeners' minds. Then, if Big Ben is silent, the public will know that the war has taken a distinctly unpleasant turn.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.
~ Philip K. Dick
Many of the behaviors are ordinary tactics of courtship, such as sending flowers, leaving notes, phoning, dropping by. If the overtures are welcome, it's courtship. If they are unwelcome and elicit alarm, they qualify as stalking.
~ David M. Buss
high-pitched wail of the emergency General Quarters
~ David Weber
Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
~ Frances Wright
An alarm goes off on my phone every two hours alerting me that it's time to eat.
~ Mimi Chakraborty
I'm up around 11am to my alarm. Without it I'd sleep into the afternoon.
~ Arlo Parks
Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire — even when no fire ensued.
~ Idries Shah
If you had been there, you would have beshit yourself, believe me.
~ Conn Iggulden
The drive to London was uneventful. Mr. Darley did not talk much and showed no signs whatever of bounderism—if there be such a word. He was intent on driving his car. If Bel had not been so taken up with her own thoughts she might have been considerably alarmed for Mr. Darley was the type of driver whose sole object is to get from one place to another in the least possible time regardless of the other traffic on the road.
~ D.E. Stevenson
As a veteran myself, I care a great deal about the quality of care our veterans receive at the Veterans Homes in our state and have raised an alarm bell more than once when I felt we as a state weren't meeting the standard of care I believe they are owed.
~ Mike Parson
We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view.
~ John M. McHugh
Out of the darkness came Mr Carsington's deep voice, cool and calm. " Pray don't trouble yourselves, gentlemen. It is merely a villain come to cut our throats, rob our stores and ravish our women. No need for alarm. Mrs Pembroke has the matter in hand.
~ Loretta Chase
I don't want to scare the guests with a big old guard dog," Tara protested. "Safety is far more important than worrying about what anyone else thinks," Sawyer told her. "You're right, of course." Tara looked at her sisters. "We'll think about both an alarm and a dog." "We can borrow Izzy from Jax," Maddie said. "Sure," Tara said. "And she can lick the next bad guy to death.
~ Jill Shalvis
I don't want to talk about it," she said. Once again he was close. Too close. So damn close. "At all," she added, hearing with some alarm that her voice had softened. Everything had softened, at just his proximity. "Ever," she whispered, and found her gaze locked on his mouth. He had a really great mouth.
~ Jill Shalvis
Mickey Mouse woke me up, my alarm jangling noisily, his little hand on two and the big hand on twelve. I wanted to smack the clock for waking me up, but I reined in the impulse. I'm not against a little creative violence now and then, but you have to draw the line somewhere. I wouldn't sleep in the same room with a person who would smack Mickey Mouse.
~ Jim Butcher
Time howled in my ear, screaming with laughter at the idea that we could control it with wristwatches, alarm clocks, revolutions, history.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Those who end their day by watching television rarely start it by setting up an alarm clock.
~ Unknown
I was suddenly alarmed about leaving this attractive forty-five-year-old woman alone with him, dead though she was.
~ Philip Roth