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Quotes About Warning

The cans of bathroom cleaner they sold had faced the sun in their display pyramid for so long that their front labels had faded from lime green to pale lemon. The mouse-print instructions about not eating the stuff could no longer be read. "If swallowed—" each of the cans said, then there was just a wordless scorch mark as warning. At
~ Mary Karr
He knocked on the doors. "Put on your life belts at once and come up to the boat deck!" he called. Men and women stumbled out of their rooms.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Just then something fell from above. "Watch it!" said Jack.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
I'm the color of gold and as sweet as can be. But beware of the danger that's all around me. What am I?
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Watch out!" warned Annie.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
She warns me about equating complexity with quality. "All that stuff you read on wine bottles, in wine magazines, where they throw out a dozen descriptors? That's not sensory evaluation. That's marketing.
~ Mary Roach
I am skeptical, only because I have read the 1978 paper by researchers at Pennsylvania State University who tried to warn away white-tailed deer by erecting roadside plywood cutouts of deer rear ends with tails a-flagging. On some, the raised tail was painted white; on others, an actual deer tail had been nailed in place. Sadly, because who wouldn't want to see our nation's highways lined with plywood deer asses with decomposing tails, none of it worked.
~ Mary Roach
Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!
~ Mary Shelley
It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night.
~ Mary Shelley
Ten cuidado, porque no tengo miedo y eso me hace poderoso.
~ Mary Shelley
Unhappy man! Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!
~ Mary Shelley
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful .
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Shut up or I'll kill you.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.
~ Mason Cooley
Let my tale be a warning. Sure as blood shall be all our undoing, it is stories that set us all free. The stories are all that matter.
~ Matt Fraction
Beware the camel's nose—for its whole body will soon follow.
~ Matthew Pearl
Even though she had been warned, she tripped over the bike. She probably tripped because she'd been warned and was telling herself not to trip over the bike. She did that sometimes. It was often easier not to know what obstacles were in the way.
~ Maureen Johnson
She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall. Stephen coughed a little. Just giving advice, Callum said.
~ Maureen Johnson
Can I tell you something you really don't want to hear? He's going to break up with you. - Stuart
~ Maureen Johnson
Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn, and everyone was back, and while that was a great thing, people better not get cocky or misbehave or he'd personally kill us all. He didn't actually say those words, but that was the subtext.
~ Maureen Johnson
Above it hung a painting of a man with a shotgun and a dog, which felt like more of a warning than a greeting.
~ Maureen Johnson
That Nate was feeling so positive should have served as a warning, but people rarely recognize signs when they appear.
~ Maureen Johnson
the informality of his posture, combined with the strict formality of his clothes, gave him an air of superlative elegance. His was the only face that had the carefree look and the brilliant smile proper to the enjoyment of a party; but his eyes seemed intentionally expressionless, holding no trace of gaiety, showing—like a warning signal—nothing but the activity of a heightened perceptiveness.
~ Ayn Rand
It was as if a volcano were cracking open, yet the people at the foot of the mountain ignored the sudden fissures, the black fumes, the boiling trickles, and went on believing that their only danger was to acknowledge the reality of these signs.
~ Ayn Rand