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It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. -- Vladimir Putin
I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers. -- Barbara Lee
The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming. -- Stefanie Powers
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own. -- Diane Ackerman
Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate. -- Lee Haney
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise. -- Zadie Smith
The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity. -- William Shatner
Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear. -- J. Philippe Rushton
However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system. -- Spencer Bachus
The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation. -- Tom Udall
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming. -- Garrett Hardin
Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming. But I started to enjoy 'Money' very quickly, and then I relaxed. -- Martin Amis
What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people are going to the polls in most advanced democracies. -- Ivan Krastev
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. -- Rem Koolhaas
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone. -- Spencer Bachus
Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority. -- Lucille Roybal-Allard
Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity. -- Jennifer Armintrout
The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly. -- Jeremy Grantham
With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat? -- Yehuda Berg
It's very alarming to see what's happening in the Muslim world. And it's about time we come to our senses and realize that moderation is the only path that will ensure peace and stability for the Muslim world, and for the wider world. -- Najib Razak
MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me. -- Rose George
It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it. -- Emma Watson
I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense. -- Sharon Stone
It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend. -- Richard J. Codey
I'd be totally exhausted by mid-afternoon, and I could barely climb the stairs at home. It was particularly alarming because all my life I'd enjoyed doing all my own stunts in shows, taking on every physical challenge. Yet suddenly, I'd become like a very old man. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea what. -- Michael Crawford
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming -- Lord Byron
Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. -- Vita Sackville-West
A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago. -- Jane Austen
Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them. -- Albert Ellis
The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming. -- Lena Dunham
I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes. -- David Attenborough
(It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions... -- Benedict Fitzgerald
The White House and the president [Donald Trump] himself remains very worrisome, alarming, almost. -- Jason Chaffetz
There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. -- Donna Tartt
Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing. -- McGeorge Bundy
The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming. -- Charles Bass
The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood. -- Joel Fuhrman
Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate. -- Robert D. Putnam
Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth! -- Nick Harkaway
In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that. -- Veronika Varekova
If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic. -- Ken Salazar
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture. -- Prince Charles
It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life. -- Ellen Potter
To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying. -- Paul Washer
A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens. -- Elizabeth Bowen
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. -- Rachel Carson
Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today. -- John Avery
I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values. -- J. K. Rowling
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. -- Frederic Bastiat
Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate -- Lee Haney
The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind. -- Vita Sackville-West
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 -- Tupac Shakur
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. -- James Carriger Paine
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth. -- Samuel Johnson
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation. -- Noam Chomsky
The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems. -- William J. Clinton
Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure. -- John F. Kennedy
Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease. -- Susan Sontag
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. -- Mario Batali
There is an alarming increase of violence and harassment against gay people, something that is being legitimized by the regime as they brand homosexuality as something abnormal and dangerous to children. -- Cecilia Malmstrom
Some fearful sights there be that creep By night - I mean that harass sleep; But tenfold more alarming seem these when They brave the day, to breathe the air like men. -- William Batchelder Greene
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. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.This is not one of those memoirs. -- Kate Madison
In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate. -- Andrew Bird
To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had. -- Steve Harvey
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul. -- Luis Barragan
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming." -- Rem Koolhaas
Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve. -- Pete Sessions

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