Alarming Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

'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.

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.

My first reaction is that the students weren't a part of this process. It is very alarming that we were not involved. But we look forward to working with a permanent president and seeing how they deal with the separate constituencies on campus.

Most alarming is the apparent disregard for the potential impact on the French cinema industry, which will be hardest hit if this vote is upheld. We are hopeful as this bill works its way through the legislative process, those with an eye toward fostering French cinema will prevail.

Next to nothing is known about this process, but it could be of great importance to the well-being of the offspring. This is particularly relevant because of the alarming rate of child abuse and neglect.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Hyundai Motor America is proud to announce its continued commitment to traffic safety by showcasing the new tools developed in conjunction with LAPD and LAUSD to raise community awareness among children and adults, and to help reduce the alarming statistics related to motor vehicle collisions. As an auto manufacturer, Hyundai Motor America wants to keep families safe when operating motor vehicles and to promote healthy communities, ... We created The ABCs of Traffic Safety Always Be Careful - in the fall of 2003 to remind drivers, occupants, and pedestrians about proper use of safety belts and child restraints; promote safe driving by commuters particularly in reduced speed school zones; and ensure children have been properly instructed on crossing streets.

It is a weekly, and now daily, drumbeat of rollbacks of hard-fought and hard-won progress to protect the air and the water and the wilderness and the environment of this country, ... This is the most alarming rollback in environmental efforts that we have ever seen.

Right now only 15 percent of costs are fuel-related. If costs double that has an effect, but it will be less on us than our competitors. It's not alarming right now.

Regardless of what the president may say on Tuesday night, the Republican budget is an alarming story. It includes policies that increase the deficit by nearly $300 billion, heaping mountains of debt on our children.

Particularly alarming for us is the fact that this is supposed to be a cease-fire.

Successive seasons of drought in the worst-affected areas have now eroded many households' assets to the point of destitution. A range of appropriate emergency interventions need to be put in place as quickly as possible before the already alarming conditions become much worse.

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.

Melanoma is really increasing at an alarming rate. Just 10 years ago, you had a 1 in 250 chance of developing malignant melanoma; now it's 1 in 70.

Most of the really alarming data has related to the manufacturing sector, which clearly is slumping. But since it only accounts for about 15 percent of total employment, it isn't dragging everything else down.

That was alarming because if my pensions depended on Delphi, I'd have no faith in it at all. We would prefer to have our money up front.

U.S. forces continue these alarming detentions of working journalists without any acceptable explanation, or anything resembling due process.

We have not even begun to see the consequences of the epidemic we're seeing in children and adolescents and continuing for a lifetime. This is an alarming trend. It really should serve as a wake-up call that major societal changes are needed to address this epidemic.

The quality of this intelligence, based on multiple reporting streams in multiple locations, is rarely seen and is alarming in both the amount and specificity of the information,

The pattern raises the alarm, however, that these species face two challenges that increase the risk of extinction: habitat destruction, which is occurring at alarming rates in the tropics, and reduced pollinator activity.

The pattern raises the alarm, however, that species in species-rich regions face two challenges that increase the risk of extinction: habitat destruction, which is occurring at alarming rates in the tropics, and reduced pollinator activity.

We believe (the BOK committee members) have been prudent in their actions as the economy has picked up steam. But inflation isn't so alarming as to require a tightening at every meeting.

The reason we're pointing to this alarming trend is because if we're going to get girls to continue to decline in drug use effectively, we're going to have to deal with those causes, which are different.

There are a couple of things that were a little alarming from the Fed statement, one of those being that elevated energy prices may add to inflation risk and that some further policy firming may be needed.

There appears to be three different virus writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate -- as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appear to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate, as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate ­ as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

We seem to have a botwar on our hands, ... There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate ­ as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

We seem to have a botwar on our hands, ... There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate ­ as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

There is nothing new and alarming that we have come across.

This was totally surprising to us and alarming to our colleagues, especially those interested in conservation, climate change and the ability of governments like Brazil to enforce environmental laws.

Underage drinking costs the United States more than $62 billion each year. At this crucial time when research shows that girls are binge drinking with alarming regularity, more must be done to reduce youth access to alcohol, and the appeal of alcohol to our youth.

What was very alarming to us is when we get our end-of-the-year statistics in. Although we are down overall, we see an increase of cars that were taken after being left running unattended ... people warming up cars, people running into a store quickly.

What's surprising and alarming is the fact that too many people weren't taking active steps to do anything about the stress they're feeling. People don't really appreciate how detrimental stress is and the ways they're trying to manage stress can be as detrimental, if not more so.

We're very lucky more people were not injured. Two people firing into a crowded hallway that's a very alarming situation.

We feel that even though these are alarming in terms of an increase. I think the researchers believe it's an epidemic of reporting, and that's a good thing.

Every case must be evaluated on its merits but the phenomenon of unjustifiable police homicides is something that is recurring at an alarming level.

Encephalitis is a perennial problem during the rainy season, but the situation appears to be quite alarming this time.

Farms as a whole are going away at an alarming rate. Any farm that is eliminated for one reason or another is significant, and being a Century Farm adds to it.

These are the folks who actually run the departments, ... We're losing them at an alarming rate.

The scale of this massacre is very alarming and suggests that the strongest deterrent message must be sent to those who are inclined to perpetuate the cycle of violence that has shattered Kosovo in the last year.

The state of things in India begins to assume somewhat of an alarming aspect. Englishmen taking up arms against Englishmen! Regiments arc called from Bengal, Bombay, and the Cape, to reduce the rebel army. Whereunto will this grow?

The situation is not an alarming one. It is a concern that we have a constituent in the groundwater that should not be there, but we don't see this as a large-spread contamination. We believe it is in a small area that we're able to control and do corrective action.

After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq,

The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.

Any sound that is sustained that we can't explain away is alarming to us. Hearing is our front-line defense for telling us when we are in danger. We're wired up that way, like an animal would be.

As a result, the board has entered talks with surrounding schools and the supervisory union and, over the next year, will be seeking possible solutions to this alarming trend.

As an auto manufacturer, Hyundai Motor America wants to keep families safe when operating motor vehicles and help reduce the alarming statistics among Hispanics related to automobile fatalities,

As alarming as this is -- and the trend is certainly not very favorable -- it's not like it was in the last recession.

Australia's brazen move confirms that an alarming government-industry strategy is in play to overturn the UN moratorium on Terminator. The process and outcome dismiss the contributions of Indigenous and local communities.

Alarming to me was when I started to hear some of the key Scripps people saying yes we will build there, but our heart is not in it.

The models we had were not terribly alarming about Greenland. This paper is a real wake-up call.

This is the first time that a recent and alarming decline of a great ape population -- brought about by man -- has been demonstrated, dated, and quantified using genetic information.

This is something I am seeing more and more in my own practice and it is pretty alarming the number of kids and the size of kids one sees with problems of this kind.

This action sends an alarming message to African-Americans who are pursuing coaching at the Division I-A level. It's still going to be tough.

This is an alarming pattern and suggests that tobacco use, especially among young girls, is on the increase.

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

It was a well-officiated game. That's just an alarming stat and really shows our lack of aggressiveness. We just weren't taking the ball to the basket.

It's alarming that Broadwater openly attempted to supply misleading information for the safety assessment to our U.S. Coast Guard.

It's alarming that a hedge-fund fraud of this magnitude could go on for so long. Most schemes like this finally blow up when the trader runs out of money.

The number has grown at an alarming rate in recent years, but due to a deep distrust of the police, many abductions are not reported and receive little media coverage.

The bill passed by the House and Senate will increase the use of energy efficiency technologies to extend our nation's energy supplies. But, the bill falls far short of making energy efficiency a cornerstone of U.S. energy policy. Most alarming is the bill's failure to curtail our growing and dangerous oil addiction in the transportation sector, which accounts for two-thirds of total U.S. oil use.

The alarming manufacturing figures, the decline in confidence balances across all sectors, and the fall in all the export balances are the most disturbing features of the Q3 results,

That is very disconcerting, very alarming and should be a wakeup call to all of us,

Taxes are increasing at an alarming rate for our citizens. You look at your surrounding jurisdictions and see what they're trying to do and have done for their people. We should do no less.

It's an alarming trend to see two and we're basically in the middle of whale season.

Once food gets into our fridges, larders and kitchens, ensuring that it gets used up before going off seems like an obvious thing to do - but it's alarming how many millions of tonnes are simply chucked because we don't keep track of the food we've spent our money on.

In light of the alarming decline in the health of these trees, it is critical that we take action.

I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak.

I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit to help eliminate slavery around the world. These are huge issues for our fellow countrymen and our fellows in the world, where slavery is growing at an alarming rate, and it needs to be arrested.

In the last two or three years almost 100% of the gardens we've eradicated are Mexican drug cartel gardens, ... It's alarming if you think about it.

Internet security threats are rising at an alarming pace, and while consumers are increasingly aware of the risks, to date they have very little ammunition to combat and defend against these threats that are easy to use and cost effective.

In 2004, Texas led the nation in home foreclosures ... yet no one seems to have a good answer as to the reason for these alarming statistics,

By failing to account for all shooting deaths and demonstrate that it is taking steps to avoid future tragedies, the U.S. military shows an alarming disregard for the safety of civilians, including journalists covering this conflict.

But to any thinking American who understands the basis of free government, the cultural developments in Europe are alarming to say the least.

An alarming amount of public information is being kept secret from citizens, and the problem is increasing by the month. Not only do citizens have a right to know, they have a need to know.

An alarming 41% of those who say there are many good reasons to vote in the elections also feel that there are many good reasons why they do not feel like voting.

If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.