The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.

The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.

Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.

I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.

I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and ‘why me,’ or I can look at it through love and say, ‘This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: ‘Hey, you’re out of balance here. It’s time to get in line with yourself.’

Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at what is happening in northern Alberta. To call this book a polemic is a compliment.

A lot of times, when young guys come up, you think you don’t have to work as hard because the talent is going to get you as far as you need to go. But as you get older, it’s not that way. An injury is really a wake-up call and a slap in the face that maybe you were slacking a bit, and don’t let it happen again.

I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman‘s voice said, ‘What the hell are you doing with your life?’

The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

Most of all, I believe God has chosen to bless this series. In doing so, he‘s giving the country and maybe the world, one last, big wake-up call before the events transpire.

Writers‘ bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor‘s early wake-up call.

I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.

There’s a rising level of frustration with the disconnect between where the vast majority of conservatives are in this country and how Congress is behaving. There’s going to be a wake-up call sooner or later.

We’ve been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

It’s always a wake-up call to get beaten.

Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn’t have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

The economic downturn is our wake-up call to slow down, consume less, help each other, & live more!

I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: “This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up.”

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless… someone‘s got to make a wake up call.

It’s a great wake-up call for our entire industry: What movies are we making? What storytellers are we allowing to tell the stories? What people are we allowing to be cast in those stories? I think we need newer stories, and more people given the opportunity to do anything they want.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

When I was 17, I blew out my knee bouldering, and I wasn’t able to climb for a year. It was hard for me to have to stay away from what I love and what makes me happy. But it was a wake-up call to take care of my body and not be too reckless.

It may just be that a true wake-up call creates a true shift in consciousness. My wake-up call left me no choice. I had to make dramatic changes. Sometimes changes just happen within you, it is the way you approach things. Everything else stays the same.

All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW… not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire… but NOW.

Have a baby, and you realize: The second you think you got sh-t figured out, you don’t. It’s the greatest wake-up call.

I think everybody who was in it thought they were all going to be Eartha Kitt or be big stars. That didn’t happen, but it was a wake-up call to have one’s first professional job on Broadway, I must say.

[Donald] Trump November 2016 could truly be the long-awaited wake-up call America desperately needs.

When I see my own people going through the tough times, it’s a wake-up call. I hope my influence can impact someone else’s decision to get out here and vote.

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.