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Quotes About Warning

How often I find myself called wrong,' Churchill had written to his wife on 17 April 1924, 'for warning of follies in time.
~ Martin Gilbert
Avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It would be a rare place for a gallop. You would naturally think so and the thought has cost several their lives before now. You notice those bright green spots scattered thickly over it?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one's dressing-gown.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Moses went on to warn them, "Take heed . . . lest, when you have eaten and are full . . . your heart be lifted up" (8:11–14). Hosea tells us that this is exactly what happened (Hos. 13:6), despite the warning.
~ Arthur Wallis
Hide!' she whispered. 'The vegetarians are coming.
~ Arundhati Roy
The harbinger of harsh reality:
~ Arundhati Roy
The doctors were often not recognized to be dangerous until they had done considerable damage.
~ Atul Gawande
He warned them at length about how terrible the risks were and how limited the potential benefit.
~ Atul Gawande
I warned her of the risks of infection and the signs to look for.
~ Atul Gawande
Signs with missing letters can only mean bad things.
~ Augusten Burroughs
It is against the sin of forgiveness that I wanted to warn you.
~ Ayn Rand
And if you take away my life," she threatened, "God will give you blood to drink.
~ Stacy Schiff
Were taxes to be levied, Franklin warned, pandemonium would result. Especially when it came to imposing burdens on people, he observed, it was wise to consider what they were inclined to think as well as how they ought to think.
~ Stacy Schiff
Assault! he croaked. The battery might yet follow. The warning- entirely unnecessary from Patience's perspective- came from Vane. One look at his face, as hard as granite and equally unyielding, would have informed any sane person of that fact.
~ Stephanie Laurens
There'll be a sky full of babies and their shit, suspended overhead. You do not want to get caught in that rain when it falls.
~ Stephen Baxter
It is important to say sir at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.
~ Stephen Chbosky
If you ever do this again, I'll tell everyone. And if that doesn't work, I'll blind you.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book.
~ Stephen Colbert
Don't let your girlfriend cut your hair!
~ Stephen Colbert
Many workmen Built a huge ball of masonry Upon a mountain-top. Then they went to the valley below, And turned to behold their work. It is grand, they said; They loved the thing. Of a sudden, it moved: It came upon them swiftly; It crushed them all to blood. But some had opportunity to squeal.
~ Stephen Crane
A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree.
~ Stephen Crane
It is the destiny of children of spirit to soar too close to the sun and fall no matter how many times they are warned of the danger. Some will make it, but many do not.
~ Stephen Fry
My father believed that his own lack of pose and connections had led him being passed over in his career in favor of people of less ability. He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not as good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him. He used to warn me against such people.
~ Stephen Hawking