#alarm

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#alarm #clock #invented #man #necessity

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

#because #clock #coffee #could #get

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. ↗

— Jane Porter

#always #apt #astonished #capable #conduct

To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#act #alarm #am #captain #department

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#aim #alarmed #endless #endless series #hence

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

#alarm #any #chapters #condition #end

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

— Ken Salazar

#consumers #countries #fill #more #other

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#apprehension #harm #more #often #reality

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

#about #air #alarming #breathe #coming

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#attentions #consists #courtship #nor #number