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Quotes About Warning

I just don't like my world disturbed without warning.
~ Harper Lee
When Alexandra went to finishing school, self-doubt could not be found in any textbook, so she knew not its meaning; she was never bored, and given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange, advise, caution, and warn.
~ Harper Lee
You'll get your head shot off, Jem.
~ Harper Lee
Atticus raised his eyebrows in warning. He watched his daughter's daemon rise and dominate her: her eyebrows, like his, were lifted, the heavy-lidded eyes beneath them grew round, and one corner of her mouth was raised dangerously. When she looked thus, only God and Robert Browning knew what she was likely to say.
~ Harper Lee
Mr. Nathan, Mr. Arthur, mad dog's comin'! Mad dog's comin'!
~ Harper Lee
You see, don't you," said Aunt Alexandra, "what comes of things like this. Don't say I haven't told you.
~ Harper Lee
Biliyor musun, bir cumartesi günü birkaç tanesi ormandan ç?k?p geldi, buradan geçerken bana çiçeklerimin ve benim cehenneme gideceÄŸimizi söyledi. Çiçeklerinin de mi? Evet, hanfendi. Benimle birlikte onlar da cehennemde yanacakm??.
~ Harper Lee
Just because some people saw the handwriting on the wall didn't mean they could get anyone else to read it too.
~ Harry Harrison
Hey, Mr. Nakata. Gramps. Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Revolution! Godzilla's on the loose! Get up !
~ Haruki Murakami
And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING. Make sure you keep away from me then.' I'd like to, but how can I tell?' I asked. O.K., I'll wear a hat for a couple of days after my period starts. A red one. That should work,' she said with a laugh. 'If you see me on the street and I'm wearing a red hat, don't talk to me, just run away.
~ Haruki Murakami
Honey, I know you like to take a drink, and that's all right, but be forewarned that I ain't your maid and I ain't your punching-bag, and if you ever raise your hand to me you'd best kill me. Because otherwise I'll wait till you're asleep; sew you into the bed; and beat you to death with a frying pan.
~ Haven Kimmel
Honey, I know you like to take a drink, and that's all right, but be forewarned that I ain't your maid and I ain't your punching-bag, and if you ever raise your hand to me you'd best kill me. Because otherwise I'll wait till you're asleep; sew you into the bed; and beat you to death with a frying pan." Until
~ Haven Kimmel
Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also.
~ Heinrich Heine
It almost makes me cry to tell, what foolish Harriet befell.
~ Heinrich Hoffmann
Get out. You've had the warning sign, he votes Tory. Now get out before you get too involved.
~ Helen Fielding
She believes in the words of her fortune teller, but really, anyone could have told her that if you have to stop doing the thing you love, it will kill you.
~ Helen Humphreys
FOR some inexplicable reason the sense of smell does not hold the high position it deserves among its sisters. There is something of the fallen angel about it. When it woos us with woodland scents and beguiles us with the fragrance of lovely gardens, it is admitted frankly to our discourse. But when it gives us warning of something noxious in our vicinity, it is treated as if the demon had got the upper hand of the angel, and is relegated to outer darkness, punished for its faithful service.
~ Helen Keller
I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
~ Ann Rule
I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.
~ Debra Winger
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.
~ Marianne Williamson
I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'
~ Gloria Steinem
Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.
~ David Horsey
People start to yawn when you warn them about a move toward socialism. It seems abstract. But if you discuss the issues that arise from high taxes, oppressive regulation, seizure of private property, and dictating of individual behavior, people understand them, and they reject them.
~ Charlie Kirk