Famous Quotes & Sayings

In light of the alarming decline in the health of these trees, it is critical that we take action.

What was very alarming to us is when we get our end-of-the-year statistics in. Although we are down overall, we see an increase of cars that were taken after being left running unattended ... people warming up cars, people running into a store quickly.

Andrew Forrest

I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit to help eliminate slavery around the world. These are huge issues for our fellow countrymen and our fellows in the world, where slavery is growing at an alarming rate, and it needs to be arrested.

In the last two or three years almost 100% of the gardens we've eradicated are Mexican drug cartel gardens, ... It's alarming if you think about it.

In 2004, Texas led the nation in home foreclosures ... yet no one seems to have a good answer as to the reason for these alarming statistics,

George Washington

If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.

Bill Watterson

I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak.

Any sound that is sustained that we can't explain away is alarming to us. Hearing is our front-line defense for telling us when we are in danger. We're wired up that way, like an animal would be.

As a result, the board has entered talks with surrounding schools and the supervisory union and, over the next year, will be seeking possible solutions to this alarming trend.

Donna Kane

As an auto manufacturer, Hyundai Motor America wants to keep families safe when operating motor vehicles and help reduce the alarming statistics among Hispanics related to automobile fatalities,

As alarming as this is -- and the trend is certainly not very favorable -- it's not like it was in the last recession.

Joel Fuhrman

The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.

Ken Salazar

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

This is something I am seeing more and more in my own practice and it is pretty alarming the number of kids and the size of kids one sees with problems of this kind.

This is an alarming pattern and suggests that tobacco use, especially among young girls, is on the increase.

It's alarming that Broadwater openly attempted to supply misleading information for the safety assessment to our U.S. Coast Guard.

It's alarming that a hedge-fund fraud of this magnitude could go on for so long. Most schemes like this finally blow up when the trader runs out of money.

This is the first time that a recent and alarming decline of a great ape population -- brought about by man -- has been demonstrated, dated, and quantified using genetic information.

Encephalitis is a perennial problem during the rainy season, but the situation appears to be quite alarming this time.

Every case must be evaluated on its merits but the phenomenon of unjustifiable police homicides is something that is recurring at an alarming level.

We're very lucky more people were not injured. Two people firing into a crowded hallway that's a very alarming situation.

We feel that even though these are alarming in terms of an increase. I think the researchers believe it's an epidemic of reporting, and that's a good thing.

Warren Rudman

There is nothing new and alarming that we have come across.

Louise Arbour

The scale of this massacre is very alarming and suggests that the strongest deterrent message must be sent to those who are inclined to perpetuate the cycle of violence that has shattered Kosovo in the last year.

These are the folks who actually run the departments, ... We're losing them at an alarming rate.

The situation is not an alarming one. It is a concern that we have a constituent in the groundwater that should not be there, but we don't see this as a large-spread contamination. We believe it is in a small area that we're able to control and do corrective action.

John Tory

That is very disconcerting, very alarming and should be a wakeup call to all of us,

Kelly Miller

Taxes are increasing at an alarming rate for our citizens. You look at your surrounding jurisdictions and see what they're trying to do and have done for their people. We should do no less.

It's an alarming trend to see two and we're basically in the middle of whale season.

Australia's brazen move confirms that an alarming government-industry strategy is in play to overturn the UN moratorium on Terminator. The process and outcome dismiss the contributions of Indigenous and local communities.

Alarming to me was when I started to hear some of the key Scripps people saying yes we will build there, but our heart is not in it.

Richard Alley

The models we had were not terribly alarming about Greenland. This paper is a real wake-up call.

Mark Hall

The number has grown at an alarming rate in recent years, but due to a deep distrust of the police, many abductions are not reported and receive little media coverage.