Top 100 Alert Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Alert Quotes from famous people such as George Tenet, Viswanathan Anand, Katty Kay, Sarah Parcak, Kalki Koechlin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I am convinced the next major attack against the United

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
Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them.
Viswanathan Anand
The other day I noticed my 12-year-old daughter was getting stressed about a grade she was due on a science test. The grade came back and it was absolutely fine but she felt it wasnt good enough. That was my red alert for this issue of perfectionism.
Katty Kay
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
Theatre is something that keeps me very alert, and I am actively creating whether I am on stage or directing. In films, I feel I become more of an introvert, going deeper in the realism of a character.
Kalki Koechlin
When providing people with the direction and expected behaviors, you need to be alert to the fact that they will hold you accountable. People want to know if you are walking the talk. They will be watching your every move and you need to be one in the same… every minute of every day.
Douglas Conant
The ‘Fake News Alert’ Chrome extension, created by ‘New York Magazine’ journalist Brian Feldman, identifies hoax news articles. However, cutting out fake news source entirely from operating is easier said than done, since anyone with internet access can create fake news.
Fabrizio Moreira
In the post-Watergate atmosphere of 1975 and 1976, the just-plain-folks personalities of both Ford and Carter seemed the perfect antidote to Nixon’s arrogant, isolated presidency. But as alert history-minded readers know, Ford and Carter were both rebuffed by voters in their efforts to hold on to the presidency.
Jeff Greenfield
Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are.
Sy Montgomery
I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It’s getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.
David Byrne
I love to play big matches. I think it’s that that keeps the fire in me, keeps me on alert.
Gael Monfils
To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
Mary Oliver
I think every high school student who was alert during the early ’60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
P. J. O’Rourke
Severe weather can come at any time, and millions of people are impacted by storms each year. Truly, the best defense against severe weather is for families to create an emergency plan, practice that plan, and always stay alert and ready.
Lucy McBath
Few Indians realise that the shift towards a market economy requires us to be alert and to fight for our rights and very few of us are willing to spare the time or money for such battles.
Sucheta Dalal
Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.
Jim Evans
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful – just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
Ben Stein
When I read period material – and it ain’t on Google – I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I’ll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they’ll be three really good words.
Alan Furst
That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.
Ernst Zundel
One should be alert and know how to defend oneself in case something untoward happens.
Nushrat Bharucha
The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter’s.
Rachel Johnson
Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting.
Eddie Redmayne
I would hate for anybody not to abide by alert warnings coming from government systems.
Kirstjen Nielsen
Why do I need succession planning? I’m very alert, I’m very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
Sheldon Adelson
A good reader or viewer is a person who is alert about her newspaper or news channel. A good reader or viewer will never waste her hard-earned money in watching or reading just anything. She is serious. She will have to think if the news she is consuming is journalism or sycophancy.
Ravish Kumar
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Horace
We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I’ve got tremendous sympathy for that.
Angela Merkel
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
Haldan Keffer Hartline
When you have a limited theory of willpower, you’re constantly on alert, constantly monitoring yourself. ‘Am I tired? Am I hungry? Do I need a break? How am I feeling?’ And at the first sign that something is flagging, you think, ‘I need a rest or a boost.’
Carol S. Dweck
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you’re going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.
Peter Maxwell Davies
To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.
David Whyte
On the pitch, I need to stay focused, alert, and be rea

On the pitch, I need to stay focused, alert, and be ready to face my heart-racing moment with confidence.
Joe Hart
It’s no surprise that work is good for us – the financial security of regular pay and the social and health benefits of being employed keep us healthy and alert. But some people who want to work find it nearly impossible get their foot on the ladder.
Damian Green
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 rifle butt, and with stockade time.
David Hackworth
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 complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Agnes Repplier
You will not get a Google alert when you fall in love.
Tom Brokaw
I live surrounded by threats. I must stay alert. I am a law-abiding citizen; have never broken any rule while driving. But if someone clicks a photo or shoots a video, I have to be suspicious of their intentions.
Ravish Kumar
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
I don’t force things. I can have a wish, and then I let God lead me on the path, bringing me what I need – and always trying to be alert to receive it.
Rosalia
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
We don’t always know exactly what we’re doing as parents. Children don’t come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it’s important to me that I always question the choices I’m making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.
Daniel Lubetzky
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There’s no desire to be an adult.
Frances McDormand
It’s an interesting door opening, this use of sonic signalling – using sound to alert us in a more subtle way than a beep.
Julian Treasure
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
The devil’s main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we’re scared of him, we’re alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation’s security.
Patrick J. Kennedy
You can practice dance, climbing a mountain and action stunts, but to get your timing right you have to have the power of imagination and an alert mind.
Rajpal Yadav
In showbiz sometimes, we’re a little disgruntled our budgets are low, sometimes our buildings aren’t that great and the sets aren’t so cool, and all of a sudden you have these security teams showing up poking around on set and you’re on high alert.
Yannick Bisson