Famous Quotes & Sayings

We find it ironic and alarming that the people who protect the building are paid less than everyone else who works at the building.

We're just not getting out of bed until the fourth quarter. We hit the snooze button and the alarm isn't ringing.

Charles Horton Cooley

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

Jamais Cascio

We've already seen digital picture frames pre-loaded with viruses; I'm not eager to have my refrigerator hacked or my alarm clock turned against me.

We've already completed the tests on mercury and fish and . . . so far there's nothing to alarm us,

We've tried to neither overly alarm nor under-inform people.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

We did not find anything alarming enough that required additional follow-up beyond what law-enforcement agencies are already doing.

Bill Vaughan

It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

Rebecca Miller

We were in bed and we heard someone's fire alarm go off, started smelling smoke and looked out the window, everyone was outside, so we just rushed out and saw everything was on fire.

Michael Buckley

Ultimately, it was the increase in the amount of cash that he was requiring that set off the alarm bells.

David Miliband

Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed

Byron Katie

Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

Byron Katie

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

Byron Katie

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

Charlotte Bronte

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

We absolutely positively have to do some major belt-tightening. We're accumulating debt at such an alarming rate it is truly unsustainable.

Denis Waitley

If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.

Policy makers want to make sure in the language of their statement that whatever they do, it's meant as insurance -- they don't want to create alarm about the state of the economy, but they also don't want to create alarm in the bond market about the end of accommodative policy,

William Cohen

Politically, economically and technologically, the world is changing at an unprecedented and sometimes alarming pace.

Vladimir Putin

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

If it happens again, ... the alarm will go off and I can get back there and take care of it.

If it were to be true, it would be alarming indeed, because it is one thing to push refugees over borders where the international community is now increasingly ready to deal with them in a humane way, but it's quite another thing to push them back into a wasteland where there is no food, very little water, no medical supplies, where everything has been looted.

Michael Ballack

If we manage to have success again in the last games nothing should happen. But it is true, the situation is dangerous. We are not playing badly, have scoring chances, but lose. That is an alarm signal which we can't ignore.

George H. W. Bush

He is most widely remembered in foreign-policy circles for being the United States' representative at the multiparty negotiation over the future of divided Germany. He persuaded the Bush administration to embrace German unity despite the qualms of allies and alarm in the former Soviet Union.

What makes them probably a little bit more dangerous is that they release an alarm pheromone after they sting, which signals other bees to come and attack. Where European bees might come in and sting one time, Africanized bees could probably sting 10 times.

Wayne Gretzky

If this is not decided in the next few days, I'm scared we could be looking at a year, a year and a half, two years, not just three months like a lot of people thought in September. From April to October, the players don't get paid, so I can't see us coming to an agreement in August or September. If we don't find a way to make everyone who is part of this sort of happy and get a deal done, we could be looking at a long, long time before hockey is played in the NHL and that's very alarming too. I hope in the next couple of weeks we can come to an agreement.

Here was a reporter seeking to cover the crisis in Ethiopia thoroughly and fairly?and the government's response was to thwart his efforts so that the alarming events in Ethiopia can stay hidden from the rest of world. This is all the more worrying in the context of the current crackdown on local journalists, at least 17 of whom are in jail for their work.

His smoke alarm went off and my dog started barking. I went out and ... there was smoke coming out.

I feel safe for the most part, but it is kind of alarming that people is shooting other people and stuff like that these days.

Clint Hurdle

His strikeouts are a little alarming for his number of at-bats,

Donna Kane

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