Quotes About Alarm

Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

Silas looked around frantically for help. "How did you get inside my house?" "Your alarm system sucks," Trent said, tapping the blade against Silas's arm. The man jumped. "Get a dog," Ford suggested. "Dogs are better than any alarm system." He rolled his neck. "Can I cut him now? This is boring.

I made a resolution to telephone my mother the next day, but it was a safe resolution; no one can hold you to a decision made in middle of the night.And then my spine sent me an alarm. A presence. Here. Now. At my side.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire. We finished our lunch in silence.

but anything overtly religious filled him with a pagan alarm; and I believe that like Pliny, whom he resembled in so many respects, he secretly thought it to be a degenerate cult carried to extravagant lengths.

H. L. Mencken, a journalist in the 1920s, saw this whipping-up of fear as endemic to politics. "The whole aim of politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and hence clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, almost all of them imaginary.

A little after two in the morning, a bright flash lit the sky, followed by a huge explosion.

Blue still did not organize a response to the emergency. Instead, the senior Public Health Service officer in charge of the city of Washington reiterated to the press that there was no cause for alarm.

The Los Angeles public health director said, "If ordinary precautions are observed there is no cause for alarm." Forty-eight hours later he closed all places of public gatherings, including schools, churches, and theaters.

Since most callers have until moments before been completely unaware that there are bears in New Jersey, there is often in their voices a component of alarm, up to and including terror. McConnell's response is calmer than pavement. She speaks in tones that range from ho to hum. "Yes, there are bears in your area," she says, and goes on to say, with an added hint of congratulation, "You live in beautiful bear habitat.

When I stop caring, thats when you should start worrying.

My mother repressed a shudder of apprehension, for, being more rapid in perception than my father, she grew alarmed on his account over things which only began to vex him a moment later. Whatever might cause him annoyance was first noticed by her, just as bad news of France is always known abroad sooner than among ourselves.

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

I had my PDA set to wake me up at 0600, which it did by gently piping music through its little speakers and gradually increasing the volume until I woke.

To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

Every night we go to bed without any assurance of being alive the next morning but still we set the alarm to wake up... That's called hope.

Today's sh..ty attitude by me is proudly sponsored by my alarm clock.

They should invent a snooze button that hits back.

The valet de chambre had entered. I did not tell him that I had rung several times, for I realized that hitherto all I had done was to dream that I had rung. I was alarmed to think, however, that this dream had had the clarity of a cognition. Could cognition, by the same token, have the unreality of a dream?

I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

Not to alarm you or anything, but I think you just made a deal with a Mexican gang." I've read Simone Elkeles books. I know how this whole garage as a front thing works.

The geese were quick to enjoy themselves, once the sense of alarm had subsided and the spirit of fun took hold. Geese, Marika learned, are typically a serious lot; but after being brought into the game, they become quite committed and surprisingly sportsman-like.