Alarm Quotes

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

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.

I think it is scary anytime anyone is coming at you asking questions.

How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

Public fear isn't something to be played with.

I'm like a fire hose when the alarm goes off in a battle against a woman. Don't ever count me out.

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

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Try not to wake up on fire.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding the alarm, but they are a minority.

He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already!

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

My God. What's happened?

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

Things are not so bad in that county as represented by rumor, and, in fact, from affidavits I have no doubt your Excellency has been deceived by the exaggerated statements of designing or half crazy men. I have found there is no cause of alarm on account of the Mormons; they are not to be feared; they are very much alarmed.

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

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?