General Alarm

Famous quotes containing the words general and/or alarm:

“Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

“Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)