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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. -- Michel de Montaigne
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. -- Pablo Picasso
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. -- Elizabeth Bowen
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. -- James Madison
It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others. -- Graham Chapman
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. -- Gore Vidal
I don`t set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it. -- Patricia Highsmith
I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer. -- Bob Monkhouse
Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible. -- Christopher Hitchens
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it? -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. -- Christopher Hitchens
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. -- Laurence Sterne
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. -- William Cowper
For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going. -- David Foster Wallace
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
But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could. -- Gail Porter
No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. -- Rita Coolidge
Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it. -- Fred Saberhagen
I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air. -- George Combe
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. -- Vaclav Klaus
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. -- T. S. Eliot
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here. -- Brit Hume
Every sound alarms. -- Virgil
Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions. -- Charles Horton Cooley
Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated. -- Charlotte Bronte
Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation. -- Henry James
I'll take a quiet life And a handshake of carbon monoxide And no alarms and no surprises -- Thom Yorke
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things. -- Epictetus
It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me. -- Hugh Laurie
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall sin the lover's hire. -- William Blake
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. -- Abraham Lincoln
She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears -- Billie Letts
What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms? -- William Butler Yeats
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms. -- Thomas Hood
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place." -- William Cowper
I read the signs,I got all my stars aligned,My amulets, my charms,I set all my false alarms,So I'll be someoneWho won't be forgotten. -- St. Vincent
The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.] -- Ovid
Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens. -- Sylvia Plath
Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable. -- John Battelle
I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad. -- Kirsty Gallacher
For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
[I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me. -- Blaise Pascal
Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people. -- Thomas Jefferson
[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another. -- George Washington

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