Alarming Quotes

A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.

— Jane Austen

Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.

— Vita Sackville-West

“And, with alarming suddenness, nothing happened.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”

— Donna Tartt

I've had an alarming amount of concussions.

— Ryan Reynolds

“Stranger things have happened, and do with alarming regularity.”

— Derek Landy

There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.

— David Attenborough

In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that.

— Veronika Varekova

We are being wiped off the face of this earth At an extremely alarming rate And even more alarming is the fact…

— Tupac Shakur

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

— Charles Bass

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and…

— Rachel Carson

In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give…

— Andrew Bird

The violence in New Orleans is erupting and it's continuing to grow at an alarming rate.

— Tyrann Mathieu

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in.…

— William Shatner

The White House and the president [Donald Trump] himself remains very worrisome, alarming, almost.

— Jason Chaffetz

The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives…

— Wendell Berry

It's very alarming to see what's happening in the Muslim world. And it's about time we come to our senses and realize…

— Najib Razak

It should be alarming to every tax-paying citizen that the government could turn federal settlement funds into fuel for activist groups that…

— Tommy Tuberville

To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's…

— Steve Harvey

Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming.…

— Martin Amis

Once food gets into our fridges, larders and kitchens, ensuring that it gets used up before going off seems like an obvious…

— Tristram Stuart

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances…

— Yehuda Berg

“So the earth is shaking Here the word's faking As there's no time for lies. Kiss and dance all nights! In no…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Through my newspaper comic strip, public speaking, and filmmaking, I try to tell as many people as possible, of all ages and…

— Jim Toomey

I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States…

— Frances Fox Piven

There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people…

— Duncan Green

“This was most alarming, what sort of terrible toil had deranged the poor woman? Would I also have to work day and…

— Leonora Carrington

We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this…

— Veronika Varekova

“The plants continued to grow at an alarming rate, adding as much as a foot to their height and girth every week,…

— Anonymous

“Not long ago-incredible though it may seem-I heard a clerk of Oxford declare that he 'welcomed' the proximity of mass-production robot factories,…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is alarming to feel the soul Leap to the surface and find no sheltering wall.”

— May Sarton

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

— Lord Byron

We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.

— John McAfee

The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.

— Lena Dunham

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

— Claudia Winkleman

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

— McGeorge Bundy

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

— Albert Ellis

I suppose it would be really alarming to an artist to play in a concert and see everybody just watching.

— John Hughes

The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's…

— Stefanie Powers