#alarm

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock. ↗

— Martin Freeman

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The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties. ↗

— John Foxe

#dreaded #gospel #greatly #had #having

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. ↗

— James Madison

#experiment #first #liberties #our #right

I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have. ↗

— Kristi Noem

#alarmed #been #debt #everyday #everyday people

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

— Pablo Picasso

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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

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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

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