Alert Quotes

316 quotes by 245 authors

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and… — David Hackworth
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you… — Jerzy Kosinski
So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but… — Rupert Murdoch
To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it. — Mary Oliver
Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone… — Susan Orlean
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and… — Agnes Repplier
Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert. — Sarah Silverman
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your… — Muriel Spark
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings… — Steven Spielberg
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that… — Ben Stein
Businesses that have gone through an episode of hyperinflation become understandably alert to the threat of it: at the first hint of inflation, they're likely… — James Surowiecki
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does… — Alexis de Tocqueville
When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these… — Eckhart Tolle
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment,… — Chuck Yeager
When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of… — C.S. Lewis
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't have… — George Balanchine
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being… — Bruce Lee
That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of… — Haruki Murakami
I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does,… — William Faulkner

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