Alarm Quotes

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent.

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men;

& after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.

I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.

Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers.

Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog.

He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'

Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year.

The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don't go to school. It's also one of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment.

They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves... They do everything but watch television.

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did.

And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

I’m alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder

You know what wakes me up? A tongue in the ass.

There is no alarm clock on that one, you are up, you are shaking, you are in a karate stance.....the day has begun.

Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

We are not to be alarmed when Satan hinders us, for it is proof that we are on the Lord's side and are doing the Lord's work. In His strength, we will win the victory and triumph over our adversary.

There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing If my burglar alarm starts ringing

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm . . . But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.

For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines.

Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

Blood is very powerful. While meat is the substance that keeps our living souls in this physical reality, blood keeps our meat alive. Blood is liquid life. When blood escapes our bodies we are alarmed to the very core of our brains. It is life leaking out of us. It is frightening and makes red a profoundly intense color.

Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.

Chefs don't actually say 'That's a spicy meat-a-ball,' except to indicate that there's a bomb threat in the restaurant without alarming the customers. Terrorism is the spiciest meatball there is.

Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this and possess a great deal of evidence. Nevertheless, they remain silent in order not to alarm people. I am dedicated to forcing the authorities to end their silence.

If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock.

Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection.

Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

We are being wiped off the face of this earth At an extremely alarming rate And even more alarming is the fact That we are not fighting back

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.