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alarms

«You've already won me over-in spite of me. So don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet. And don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are. I couldn't help it-it's all your fault.»
«After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms - while the jungle natives sleep in open-door huts»
«Ben Battle was a soldier bold, / And used to war's alarms: / But a cannon-ball took off his legs, / So he laid down his arms.»
«We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.»
«They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.»
«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.»
«And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night»
Author: Matthew Arnold (Critic, Poet) | Keywords: alarms, clash, darkling, swept
«It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.»
«Every sound alarms.»
Author: Virgil (Author, Poet) | Keywords: alarms
«O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Solitude | Keywords: alarms, charms, reign, sages