I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises. . .
But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a partisan demagogue who 'agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against the other'
The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.
We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.
To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
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.
Anger is an alarm system, signaling the presence of nothing more than fear. It tells us we are working at cross-purposes to our own happiness, fearing the loss of something more than we enjoy the experience of having it.
My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.
My song is ya girlfriend's wakin up ringer. . . or alarm or whateva. She'll be here at 6 in the morn if I let her
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.
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.
If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock.
When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those things, there's nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off
Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.
That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.