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Quotes About Alarm

I got a smoke alarm at home, but really it's more like a 9-volt-battery-slowly-drainer.
~ Mitch Hedberg
The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell.
~ Robert Olen Butler, Hell
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~ Jane O'Connor
Old enough to remember the arrival of 'Have a nice day', Patrick could only look with alarm on the hyperinflation of 'Have a great one'. Where would this Weimar of bullying cheerfulness end? 'You have a profound and meaningful day now.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Good, unlooked for in either case, was turned into evil; and what to faith would have been a source of intense joy, became, through unbelief, only a new cause of alarm.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
for that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other. These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.
~ Alexander Hamilton
The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.
~ Alexander Hamilton
A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.
~ James Dobson
I play music on my phone to fall asleep when I'm on the road and as an alarm clock to wake me up, so I need it nearby - but there are never outlets by the bed in hotels!
~ Celeste Ng
I have the luxury of getting up quite late, so I hardly ever set an alarm clock.
~ Ben Schott
I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!
~ Twinkle Khanna
I grew up with a clock radio next to my bed.
~ Mike D
Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.
~ Richard Francis Burton
I kept climbing--past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive--partly because his lunch box was cool, partly so he could raise the alarm and hopefully get his friends to follow me rather than head toward the engine room.
~ Rick Riordan
I thought you was about to die before but you really about to die now." Fatback announced scared for her life.
~ Keisha Ervin
The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.
~ Kelly Link
Alarm, when used for anything less than a fire or an air attack, is certain to muddle the mind, unsettle the senses, and, in most cases, more than double the danger.
~ Ken Kesey
But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.
~ Everett Dirksen
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
~ Thucydides
American culture, aggressive self-regard is no longer viewed with alarm. Instead people praise and promote it."6
~ William P. Farley
Are you just going to stand there frying hamburgers while your child could be dying in a fire?
~ Y?ko Ogawa
She didn't feel like an adult. She was in no way prepared. It was as if a fire alarm had gone off in the middle of the night and she was standing on the street with her clothes bundled up in her arms.
~ David Nicholls
So what happens if you restrict your cholesterol intake, as so many people do today? The body sends out an alarm that indicates crisis (famine).
~ David Perlmutter
I'm scared David" "That's good, because there's lots to be afraid of
~ David Wong