Alarming Quotes

102 Alarming quotes by 93 unique authors

As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in… — Richard Leakey
The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming. — Stefanie Powers
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species. — Frederick Lenz
Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got,… — Jess C Scott
The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming. — Charles Bass
It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country,… — Richard Codey
It’s hard to deny that an alarming number of those who stood for peace, not war, were either killed by deranged lone gunmen or else… — James Morcan
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture. — Prince Charles
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.… — Rachel Carson
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. — Rachel Carson
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man… — Rachel Carson
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of… — Luis Barragan
In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it… — Kathryn Lindskoog
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public,… — Garrett Hardin
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 surprising to a… — Steve Harvey
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to… — Rem Koolhaas
The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of… — Vita Sackville-West
Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic. — Ken Salazar
The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming… — William Shatner
It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that… — Emma Watson
WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching,… — Walt Whitman
A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago. — Jane Austen
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. — Donna Tartt
This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread. It hit her with a… — Anne Ursu

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