Quotes About Warning

Like a Rolling Stone" gave me the faith that a true, unaltered, uncompromised vision could be broadcast to millions, changing minds, enlivening spirits, bringing red blood to the anemic American pop landscape and delivering a warning, a challenge that could become an essential part of the American conversation. This was music that could both stir the heart of your fellow countrymen and awaken the mind of a shy, lost fifteen-year-old in a small New Jersey town.

We had a lot of chances to take steps to save our world, and we blew them all, Jane. All of them. We were greedy and stupid and shortsighted, and we threw all our chances away.

We—and here I include myself—need to be careful lest, in working hard and standing firm against wickedness, we (like the church in Ephesus) forsake our first love and fall from a great height.

All tanning should be considered visible evidence of toxic injury.

Attention, attention, there are monkey-boys in the complex.

but let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man.

A mantrap may be under his ruddy-tipped daisies.

Have an eye to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought. If ye touch at the islands, Mr. Flask, beware of fornication.

oh armadores de Nantucket! ¡Cuidado con alistar en vuestras vigilantes pesquerías a ningún muchacho de frente descarnada y mirada profunda, dado a tan inoportuna meditatividad, y que se ofrece para embarcarse llevando en la cabeza el «Fedón» en vez del Bowditch! Cuidado con semejante persona

You have but noted his fair cheek. A man-trap may be under his fine ruddy-tipped daisies.

he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion;

Yet his reading of birds could not keep off dark destruction

Beware, Diomedês! Forbear, Diomedês! Do not try to put yourself on a level with the gods; that is too high for a man's ambition. The immortal gods are one race, men that walk upon the earth are another.

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

Charles Beard warned us that governments—including the government of the United States—are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their constitutions are intended to serve these interests.

You took too much man, too much, too much.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

it hung above the livid, bruised land like an admonition

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.

Ah hears tings which Ah don' like at all. Cain't say much. Get mahself 'n plenty trouble. But yuh all want to watch yo step plenty good. Yassuh.

he upended his suitcase just inside the door and balanced the three glasses on top of it. It was a simple booby trap but it would give him all the warning he needed.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches civilisation.

So what's the use of a headache, a heartache? What am I being warned against, or told what to do? Don't let your incestuous uncle and mother poison your father. Don't waste your precious days idle and inverted. Get born and act!