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Quotes About Warning

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
~ Frank A. Clark
If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.
~ Pat Buchanan
By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.
~ C. Everett Koop
Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.
~ Sun Tzu
Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.
~ Janet Morris
Be careful," said Mark as Max picked up the potatoes Brandon T. unearthed with his hoe. "We don't want any fingers mixed in with our spuds.
~ Susan E. Goodman
Don't mess with me, Calvin. You'll only get hurt.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You let us out right now, o r Gabe is going to shoot you with his gun! I mean it! He's got a million guns, and he'll shoot you, then cut you up with a knife!
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The inseparability of junk science from junk thought is evinced by the telltale marks of endemic illogic coupled, in many instances, with deliberate manipulativeness. The first and most fundamental warning sign is an inability to distinguish between coincidence and causation--a basic requirement for scientific literacy.
~ Susan Jacoby
autumn of 1918, I had just started fifth grade when signs began popping up in windows and on doors, on broadsheets plastered on streetlamps around the neighborhood. Suddenly big public gatherings were being discouraged; taverns, moving-picture houses, soda fountains—even churches—grew empty. Nobody knew what it was exactly, except that it started quickly, with a cough and a fever.
~ Susan Jane Gilman
The Sword of Damocles,
~ Susan May
little brother break his ornery neck. "Tate, this is a bad idea.
~ Susan May Warren
If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says "keep away from children."
~ Susan Savannah
When a woman is convinced that she can stop the violence in her marriage, her stubborn determination feeds her sense of failure each time she sees that she can't regulate her husband's demands and abuses. In a perverse type of review, she may then ask herself how she could have been so stupid as to overlook the early warnings. This further diminishes her self-esteem.
~ Susan Weitzman
If you can't be a good example then you'll have to be a terrible warning.
~ Suzanne Braun Levine
It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.
~ Suzanne Collins
Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.
~ Suzanne Collins
Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.
~ Suzanne Collins
A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with something. At first Gregor raised a warning hand. He thought it was a rat. Then the creature lifted his head and Gregor recognized what was left of his dad.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm bad news, all right," said Coriolanus.
~ Suzanne Collins
But there's nothing up there but the wounded!" I say. "Katniss" I hear the warning note in Haymitch's voice and know what's coming. Don't you even think about-!" I yank the earpiece free and let it hang from its wire.
~ Suzanne Collins
Plutarch ushers the doctors out and tries to order Prim to go as well, but she says, "No. If you force me to leave, I'll go directly to surgery and tell my mother everything that's happened. And I warn you, she doesn't think much of a Gamemaker calling the shots on Katniss's life. Especially when you've taken such poor care of her." Plutarch looks offended, but Haymitch chuckles. "I'd let it go, Plutarch," he says. Prim stays.
~ Suzanne Collins
El foc s'escampa! I si nosaltres cremem, us cremareu amb nosaltres!
~ Suzanne Collins