Top 100 Alert Quotes
#1. Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.
Siri Hustvedt
#2. Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.
Matt Damon
#3. 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, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions.
William Faulkner
#4. To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times
Peter Koestenbaum
#5. We meditate so that our minds can be sharp and alert. We chant mantras so that your souls may be ignited like candles. We walk in the light of this beauty.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#6. By modulating the amount of blue in our environment, we can help people to relax, or to be alert; to fall asleep, or to stay awake.
Rogier Van Der Heide
#7. Whether one is remaining alert (mindfulness), focusing on a single thought or phrase (mantra), or mentally exploring ones inner world (visualization), all are one form of concentration or another.
Gudjon Bergmann
#8. Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.
Peter Diamandis
#9. I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.
Vijender Singh
#10. Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby.
Jan Hunt
#11. I wanted to write some words you'd remember.
Words so alert they'd leap from the paper,
crawl up your shoulder, lie by your ears,
and purr themselves to you like baby kittens,
but it was rainy, so I laid there and daydreamed about you.
C.L. Foster
#12. Incidentally, this is the only letter I'll send - don't think I'll turn you in, don't think for a second I'd alert the authorities, I mean, fuck them, and certainly, of course, fuck you, but above everything fuck them. I've always stood for that. Admittedly not much else.
Denis Johnson
#13. When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.
Eckhart Tolle
#15. [Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.
Wallace Stegner
#16. SINK OR SWIM ALERT
Folks with low self-esteem will push you under to save their drowning egos
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#17. Observing what is around us and registering errant impressions is a state not so much of passive inaction as of alert receptivity. Allowing ourselves to notice, to be open to our surroundings, is a way of awakening our curiosity in the world outside ourselves. The
Eva Hoffman
#18. Because Mint has access to all of your bank accounts and credit cards, we can detect fraud or unusual spending patterns faster than your bank, then send an email or text message alert to users.
Aaron Patzer
#19. I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.
George Tenet
#20. The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#21. One of man's deepest habits is keeping alert for dangers and difficulties, refusing to allow himself to explore his own mind because he daren't take his eyes off the world around him.
Colin Wilson
#22. Ah, man. (Talon)
What? (Wulf)
Friggin' Fabio alert. (Talon)
Hey, you're not too far from the mark either, blondie. (Wulf)
Bite me, Viking. (Talon)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#23. The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things. I have found this to be the case all of my life.
Dean Koontz
#24. When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
Kirstie Alley
#25. The Truth is the unknown from moment to moment, our minds must be always alert with full attention, free from prejudices, misconceptions, so it can be really receptive.
Samael Aun Weor
#26. I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.
Eartha Kitt
#27. Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.
Claire Danes
#28. Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
Wendell Berry
#29. Everybody is giving birth to something - everybody but the lesbian in the upper tier. Her head is uptilted, her throat wide open; she is all alert and tingling with the shower of sparks that burst from the radium symphony. Jupiter is piercing her ears.
Henry Miller
#30. Cooper was halfway out of his chair with realizing he'd moved, his body on full combat alert. His mind spinning,
Marcus Sakey
#31. When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.
Carlos Castaneda
#32. Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#33. Maybe it was the hip-sprung way she moved, high-assed and shiny, alert to surfaces, like a character in a B movie soaked in alimony and gin.
Don DeLillo
#34. I have always been a night person. When the sun goes down, my spirits rise. I'm more alert, quicker, more in tune with the rhythms of the world.
Jerri Nielsen
#35. A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.
Eckhart Tolle
#36. It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.
Dani Shapiro
#37. looked at the better-informed faces passing with that Westminster Expression, the Estate Expression: a certain gravitas, a pinch of visible intelligence, alert attention, and - above all - irritation. Westminster found all that was not Westminster - and much that was - deeply irritating. Here
A. L. Kennedy
#38. I have just instructed Laxmi to make a small temple for smoking here in the ashram. But you have to go very alert, aware, meditative! If you can smoke meditatively, it is perfectly beautiful. If it stops by being meditative, that too is perfectly beautiful. Life is sacred.
Rajneesh
#39. American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.
Dennis Etchison
#40. True meditation is a state of profound and deep peace that comes when the mind is calm and silent, yet totally alert. True meditation takes you to a higher state of awareness and enables you to fulfill who you were meant to be.
Stewart Osbourne
#41. What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.
William J. Mitchell
#42. Sometimes we need to heed our fears and negative thoughts, and at all times we need to be alert to the world outside ourselves, even when that includes absorbing bad news and entertaining the views of "negative" people.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#43. Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape?
Craig Kilborn
#44. He knew it was the price of enjoying life, that if he was to be alert to the things he now found pleasure in, he would have to accept its cost as well.
Hanya Yanagihara
#45. Phones on, and stay alert," Luc said. "And tell Jonah we said hello." "Lucas," Ethan politely said, "kiss my ass.
Chloe Neill
#46. What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected.
Martine Franck
#47. I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot of life out of my family without giving very much to me.
Tony Judt
#48. If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.
Osho
#49. Mozart's mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is vigorous, alert, and on the wing. He dives unerringly on to his finest ideas like a bird of prey, and once an idea is seized he soars off again with an undiminished power.
Walter J. Turner
#50. It's important to keep up with technology, to constantly move with it. Striving to do so keeps me alert and creates a sense of fluidity but at the same time I like to distance myself from it. It's key for my process to try and remain outside the bubble.
Marc Forster
#51. Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew the water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#53. Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Muriel Spark
#54. I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.
Peter Beard
#55. I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?
Jimmy Buffett
#56. It was one of my friend's most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#57. I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.
Leonard Woodcock
#58. Every movement was sure and steady, and she always walked with purpose and seemed alert and ready for anything. I didn't know if these qualities meant that I could trust her with everything, or that I couldn't trust her at all.
Embee
#59. Become alert! Relationship destroys love, destroys the very possibility of its birth.
Rajneesh
#60. Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.
Pope Francis
#61. Ack! I'm blind. Old man dick alert. Cover it up. She protested with her mouth, yet her eyes remained locked on his bare body. He swelled up to an even mightier size. Good grief. Just how big does that thing get? Should I duck and cover before it explodes?
Eve Langlais
#62. Ohio went on alert Tuesday when a train with hazardous chemicals ran wild through the state. A brave engineer leaped aboard and brought the runaway train under control. Sounds like we've found our next FBI Director.
Argus Hamilton
#63. Increasing your speed means making your mind and body more alert, and therefore more likely to keep going strong for longer periods of time.
Inspire3 Publishing
#64. You really think I should be able to do that to you, Garrett?" Ty asked.
"Why the hell would I be on alert in my own bedroom with no pants on when the only threat is my husband stomping around in a shitty mood?
Abigail Roux
#65. To be a joke, it was too cruel;
But to be true, it was absurd ...
My mind seemed to have got the fuel
It needed to become alert.
Tatyana K. Varenko
#66. Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.
Eckhart Tolle
#67. I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.
Michelle Stuart
#68. Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless.
Maureen Corrigan
#69. I think when you practice photography or observation, you're on high alert. You polish up your antenna and stick up your head, and you're out there. You're receptive, appreciative of details. It heightens reality. You're trying to step into your alertness.
Debra Granik
#71. We can tell from the imagery a tomb was looted from a particular period of time, and we can alert INTERPOL to watch out for antiquities from that time that may be offered for sale.
Sarah Parcak
#72. ONE OF THE THINGS that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways to hurt yourself. Recently, in France, I was hit square on the head by an automatic parking barrier, something I don't think I could have managed in my younger, more alert years.
Bill Bryson
#73. My daughter and I have this thing we call a PMA: 'perfect moment alert.' I try to really notice when we're having a PMA.
Nina Jacobson
#74. SPOILER ALERT: EVERYONE FALLS IN LOVE & DIES!
Amy King
#75. Let us be alert to the season in which we are living. It is the season of the Blessed Hope, calling for us to cut our ties with the world and build ourselves on this One who will soon appear. He is our hope - a Blessed Hope enabling us to rise above our times and fix our gaze upon Him.
A.W. Tozer
#76. I meant the moral to be that revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.
George Orwell
#77. 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, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
Chuck Yeager
#78. Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
Georges Bernanos
#79. In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#80. He was instantly awake and alert, leaning toward her as if he, too, always knew where she was.
Sarah J. Maas
#81. With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.
Thorstein Veblen
#82. For he used to say ... that knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.
Thomas Mann
#83. I began to use the same principles-observation, consistency, and attention to detail, to try to communicate with other birds. Through experimentation with what worked and what didn't, I learned that if I'm patient and alert, the bird will let me know what it wants.
Michele Raffin
#84. Stay alert. The big moral crossroads in your life may not come labeled as such.
George Saunders
#85. After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
Judith Lewis Herman
#86. it was impossible; trying to find a meaning in everything meant he had to remain alert and tense
Paulo Coelho
#87. Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.
Mark Boal
#88. But this is what servant-hood within the fellowship of believers is all about: being alert to the little things that need to be done and then doing them.
Jerry Bridges
#89. Well, best to remain vigilant. It's when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.
Brandon Sanderson
#90. It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola.
Vladimir Lenin
#91. Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.
David Perlmutter
#92. I wondered if they had my name on database now, with an alert next to it: nutter.
Mark Edwards
#93. I love my privacy too, but at the end of the day, when it comes down to it with my woman, I call her a "special cloth alert." She's a rare breed and I love her and I don't ever want her to change because I think that's the balance of my relationship.
DJ Khaled
#94. One of the remarkable things about being 19 is that you can break open a case of warm beer at midnight and still be wide-eyed and alert for your eight-a.m. class. And that gave me the false impression that my life would always be like that.
David Letterman
#95. There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#96. I just ordered a Life Alert bracelet, so if I get a life, I'll be notified immediately. - BUMPER STICKER I
Darynda Jones
#97. In greeting, we Southerners say "hey" not "hi." To alert, draw the attention of, or show objection to another, we also say "hey," but air is expelled and the ending is truncated. This
Kathy Reichs
#98. We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.
Eugene H. Peterson
#99. She swallows and looks down at her hands clenched in her lap. "I don't like this story." "Should I jump to the ending? Spoiler alert: the hero saves her." Tabby looks over at me, her eyes shining like gems in the dark. "A real hero would teach the princess how to save herself.
J.T. Geissinger
#100. Isn't she gorgeous, Ken?"
"Too pretty for Thatch, that's for damn sure.," Ken remarked with a smurk. "Seriously, Cassie? Is he blackmailing you? Do we need to alert the authorities? Blink twice if he kidnapped you. Three times if you fear for you life.
Max Monroe
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