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Quotes About Warning

they knew, Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability,
~ Timothy Snyder
Fear and anger, Yoda had often warned him, were slaves to the dark side. Vaguely, Luke wondered which side curiosity served.
~ Timothy Zahn
South Carolina's history, punctuated by the sale of little children, might be read as a cautionary tale about how a self-centered ruling class could rely on racial prejudice in the service of unchecked capitalism and to the detriment of moral character.
~ Tiya Miles
En la vida siempre se presenta una buena oportunidad. El problema radica en saberla reconocer y eso, a menudo, no es tan sencillo. La mía, sin ir más lejos, tenía todo el aspecto de ser una maldición. Un adivino me dijo: "¡Atención! En 1993 correrás un enorme riesgo de muerte. No vueles durante todo ese año. No tomes ningún vuelo".
~ Tiziano Terzani
This, then, is the story of what I learned. It is told in many voices, in words far more eloquent and raw than I could have thought on my own. It is a story of heartbreak and fear and regret. But mostly it is a warning. Violence comes in many forms- guns, fists, and words of hate and contempt. Unless we change the way we treat others in school and out, there will be more- and more horrible- tragedies.
~ Todd Strasser
Not everybody knows that looking at people in 'a funny way' is the commonest cause of sudden murder. I happen to know that because I read a Home Office brochure once.
~ Tom Baker
To this day, I haven't seen 'Jaws.' Because I was always in the ocean, when I was a kid, my mom said, 'See the movies that you want to, but I'm telling you, do not ever see Jaws.'
~ Maika Monroe
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood
~ Oscar Wilde
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
~ Oscar Wilde
He seems to read nothing but my books, and says his one desire is to 'follow in my footsteps'! But I have told him that they lead to terrible places.
~ Oscar Wilde
I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as some message from God, a warning of things to come, a perfect description of my mashed-potato character
~ Oscar Zeta Acosta
And warns us to use life's beauty as it blooms. The thorn is spurned when the rose has dropped.
~ Ovid
The first intimation I had that things were about to hot up was a pained and disapproving cough from the neighbourhood of the carpet.
~ p g wodehouse
You might want to know that my dad taught me to shoot so that I could hunt with him, which I've been doin' since I was a kid. I can kill a pheasant in flight. I can kill a rabbit running for its burrow. I've even shot a squirrel scrambling up a great big ol' oak. So, I can damn sure hit your knee from a few feet away. Now, you and your boys need to back the fuck away from our truck, or I will happily give you tangible proof that I am indeed an excellent shot.
~ P.C. Cast
I don't know if you have ever seen one of those old maps where they mark a spot with a cross and put 'Here be dragons' or 'Keep ye eye skinned for hippogriffs', but I had always felt that some such kindly warning might well have been given to pedestrians and traffic with regard to this Steeple Bumpleigh.
~ P.G, Wodehouse
One more toot--just one single, solitary suggestion of the faintest shadow or suspicion of anything remotely approaching a toot--and may the Lord have mercy on your soul.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Ask the first lion cub you meet, and it will tell you that, once you've tasted blood, there is no pulling up, and it's the same with opening telegrams.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Do you not see a threat in the bloody silk of the poppy? No ves en la seda sangrienta de la amapola una amenaza?
~ Pablo Neruda
I will tell you a few—each one with a moral!" Sri Yukteswar's eyes twinkled with his warning. "My mother once tried to frighten me with an appalling story of a ghost in a dark chamber. I went there immediately, and expressed my disappointment at having missed the ghost. Mother never told me another horror-tale. Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
I consider the two years in Beaufort when I taught high school as perhaps the happiest time of my life. My attraction to melodrama and suffering had not yet overwhelmed me, but signs of it were surfacing. No one had warned me that a teacher could fall so completely in love with his students that graduation seemed like the death of a small civilization.
~ Pat Conroy
beware the law behind closed doors, the yellow-toothed men behind silver badges who had been betrayed by their chromosomes and their birth. She would talk of power as a yeast that could activate a malevolence that no force on earth could overcome once it had begun. Beware
~ Pat Conroy
Discipline. All is for naught if the organization, specifically leadership, doesn't enforce the values. It may be a subtle reminder, a rebuke, even a warning that includes clear consequences if behavior is not changed.
~ Pat MacMillan
I need you." "You must be careful," he whispered. "You must be so careful. Every need is a path to her.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
He glimpsed her familiar face then, very clearly, vivid and flushed with passion. 'Don't do that,' he warned. 'Don't look like that.' 'Like what?' 'Don't feel. It's a stronger spell than the sorceress's.
~ Patricia A. McKillip