Alarms Quotes - Page 14

• Enough of satire; in less harden'd times
  Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes.
  I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave,
  Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave;
  Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms
  From her one line, than from a world in arms.

  Charles Churchill

  Men, Brave, Soul

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.164

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• Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

  Mary McCarthy

  Doe, Levels, Matter

  Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt

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• Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.

  George Holyoake

  Spiritual, Passion, Mean

  George Jacob Holyoake (1896). “English Secularism: A Confession of Belief”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

  Hortense Calisher

  Science, Guilty, Sociology

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• The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.

  Arianna Huffington

  Opportunity, Two, America

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• It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm.

  Washington Allston

  Kings, Lying, Blow

  Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.170

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• In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.

  Storm Jameson

  Grief, Loss, Thinking

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• 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!

  Nellie L. McClung

  Grateful, May, Matter

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.10, University of Toronto Press

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• Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say screw this. They hate the products.

  Tony Fadell

  Wall, Hate, Batteries

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

  Byron Katie

  Stress, Believe, Discomfort

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• Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Leaving, Brain, Bed

  "If Only Gay Sex Caused Global Warming" by Daniel Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2007.

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• Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

  Starhawk

  Feminist, Age, Identity

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• Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Vanity, Produce, Unreasonable

  Ann Radcliffe (1809). “A Sicilian romance, by the authoress of The castles of Athlin and Dunbayne”, p.11

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• I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Needs, Habit, Clock

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2012). “Trick of the Eye: A Novel”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.

  Paul A. Baran

  Advancement, Helping, Economic

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.244, NYU Press

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• I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the Complex began, to the entertainment and alarm of a war-shattered and disillusioned world.

  Mary Butts

  War, Games, Firsts

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• I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.

  Alec Baldwin

  Beautiful, Men, Eight

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• The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.

  Charlie Rose

  Coffee, Orange Juice, Car

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• To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.

  Judith N. Shklar

  Fear, Alive, Danger

  Judith N. Shklar, Stanley Hoffmann (1998). “Political Thought and Political Thinkers”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• When the alarm bell rings, you'd better wake up and realize that the customer expects more from you today than he did the day before. You'd better find ways to be better.

  Gary L. Tooker

  Service Culture, Wake Up, Bells

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• A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.

  James Dobson

  Government, President, Campaigns

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• Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Years, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.

  Stephen Hawking

  Buttons, Poor, Clock

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• Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

  David Ogilvy

  Sound, Advertising, Deals

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.89, Profile Books

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• We’ve all got to worry some-but we can’t let it conquer us. Instead, let it alarm us.

  Jim Rohn

  Worry, Conquer

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 08, 2015

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