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Quotes About Warning

Tell him he has murdered me! Tell him that I'll haunt him!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The future is never more important than to a people on the verge of a cataclysm.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
You have to be careful, Terauchi always warned us, or you'll wind up in some database. Then adults will control you.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Why do I get the feeling, interjected Cheops, that shit and fan are moving into conjunction, and that we might be in the way?
~ Neal Asher
The Allies had broken their word. Without consulting the Norwegian government, they had sent a fleet of bombers to strike Vemork. Many civilians had died. Much needless destruction had been wrought, especially on the nitrate plant in Rjukan. That site had never appeared on any target list and only produced fertilizer for Norwegian agriculture. Hardest to accept was the fact that the primary target, the heavy water plant, had not even been damaged, just as Tronstad had warned it would not be.
~ Neal Bascomb
The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.
~ Neal Cassady
There are many ways in which the check brain light illuminates, but here's the screwed-up part: the driver can't see it. It's like the light is positioned in the backseat cup holder, beneath an empty can of soda that's been there for a month. No one sees it but the passengers—and only if they're really looking for it, or when the light gets so bright and so hot that it melts the can, and sets the whole car on fire.
~ Neal Shusterman
Cam knows this is not going to be a good day the moment he sees the chain saw.
~ Neal Shusterman
If you come anywhere near my daughter, I will see to it that you are taken apart piece by bloody piece. Do I make myself clear? Any clearer, says Cam, and you'd be invisible.
~ Neal Shusterman
It stands as an unspoken warning to everyy Unwind there. You will get with the program,or your stay here will be very, very, short. The lesson is always learned.
~ Neal Shusterman
Something's wrong!" he said, which was the understatement of the year.
~ Neal Shusterman
Kind of an early warning system originally developed to fight terrorism, but isn't it nice to know we can now use it for civilian purposes?
~ Neal Shusterman
We make mistakes. Believe me, if Goddard is installed as High Blade, half of the scythes who put him there will regret it in the morning, but by then it will be too late!
~ Neal Shusterman
Most abusers don't leave a wide debris field that's easy to spot, and therefore easy to avoid. They're not nukes, they're radiation zones. They're not tornados, they're balmy summer skies where the morning sun makes you forget the thunderstorm coming in the afternoon.
~ Neal Shusterman
YOU DON'T SMELL FIRE, I yelled. YOU SMELL SMOKE.
~ Charles Bukowski
beware women grown old who were never anything but young
~ Charles Bukowski
Carelessness is the handmaiden to tragedy indiscretion.
~ Charles Bukowski
his tract The Road to Survival (1948), the first modern we're-all-going-to-hell book. Road was meant as a warning bell, based on objective science, but it was also an implicit vision of how we should live: a moral testament. Vogt was the first to put together, in modern form, the principal tenets of environmentalism, the twentieth century's only successful, long-lasting ideology.
~ Charles C. Mann
For a geophysicist, what's going on is stunning," my friend told me. "We used to believe these systems needed thousands of years to make these shifts. Instead it's happening so fast that it's terrifying. Conceivably, you could start seeing truly bad effects in a hundred years.
~ Charles C. Mann
As of ten minutes ago, when he was sworn in by Albert Tyler in the President's Room with the leadership of both houses of Congress as witnesses, that's what he is." Busby was staggered by the audacity of this maneuver by the Old Guard. "But how could something like this happen just like that, with no warning, out of the blue?" "Because we have a Constitution which delivers us from evil
~ Charles McCarry
God constantly uses the lives of Bible characters to teach us, to encourage us, to warn us.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
This should serve as a warning to anyone who thinks that God will accept anything we choose to bring as long as we're sincere.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
loose lips don't merely sink ships, they summon krakens with too many tentacles.
~ Charles Stross
Sorry, I should have warned you." Apologies are the keystone of an enduring relationship. Failing to apologize for mistakes, or getting onto a treadmill of belittling insults, is a bad warning sign. So far we've avoided it, but . 
~ Charles Stross