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Quotes About Warning

Whatever you do, I wanted to say, do not be too happy. It will bring fire down on your head.
~ Madeline Miller
I should have known better than to call upon the gods.
~ Madeline Miller
1984 is a great fiction novel to read but it seems like it is becoming the reality we are currently living under more and more each day.
~ Madison Cawthorn
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
~ Mae West
She grows up with a hidden, private flame inside her: it licks at her, warms her, warns her. You need to get away, the flame tells her. You must.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
El castigo de Dios está más cerca del pecador de lo que están los párpados de los ojos!
~ Unknown
What about all those bodies?" "Those are the dumbasses who thought they could take what's mine.
~ Mandy M. Roth
An effective California prison term I picked up is "gimme five feet!" I usually decorate it with a few colorful adjectives. This tells street people that they've fucked up and picked a homeboy instead of a civilian. A homeboy won't let them get off the first shot; a civilian will. It is critical to remember that these guys know that their asses are on the line. They can't afford to pick the wrong target.
~ Marc MacYoung
In the final analysis, therefore, the tomb of Edward I may stand, like the unfinished castle at Caernarfon, not only as a monument to the past, but also as a warning to the future: a final reminder of the power of myth to shape men's minds and motives, and thus to alter the fate of nations.
~ Unknown
The Saxon', he wrote, 'is the most ferocious of all foes. He comes upon you without warning;
~ Unknown
Seja como for, a ausência de ruído é o melhor sinal da proximidade de um abismo.
~ Unknown
To such beings, such fugitive beings, their own nature and our anxiety fasten wings. And even when they are with us the look in their eyes seems to warn us that they are about to take flight. The proof of this beauty itself, that wings add is that often, for us, the same person is alternately winged and wingless.
~ Marcel Proust
Like a blood-red sky that warns the passerby, "There is a fire over there," certain blazing looks often reveal passions that they serve merely to reflect. They are flames in the mirror.
~ Marcel Proust
But listen not to his temptations, warn Thy weaker. Let it profit thee to have heard, By terrible example, the reward Of disobedience. Firm they might have stood, Yet fell. Remember, and fear to transgress.
~ John Milton
Amid the Garden by the Tree of Life,   Remember what I warne thee, shun to taste,   And shun the bitter consequence: for know,   The day thou eat'st thereof, my sole command   Transgrest, inevitably thou shalt dye;   From that day mortal, and this happie State   Shalt loose, expell'd from hence into a World   Of woe and sorrow. Sternly
~ John Milton
But of the tree whose operation brings Knowledge of good and ill, which I have set The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith, Amid the garden by the tree of life, Remember what I warn thee. Shun to taste. And shun the bitter consequence. For know, The day thou eatest thereof, my sole command Transgressed, inevitably thou shalt die, From that day mortal; and this happy state Shalt lose, expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow.
~ John Milton
We, who work every day just to survive, swear on the blood of our ancestors that we will never allow dams across our rivers. We are simple Indians and mestizos, but we would rather die than stand by as our land is flooded. We warn our Colombian brothers: stop working for the construction companies.
~ John Perkins
Just remember, Miller growled, over the radio. Once you ignite the fuse, Mister Satchel Charge is not your friend.
~ John Ringo
Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.
~ John Ruskin
Schiffer recoiled: "Oh, Jesus Christ, Taryn, don't give me a heart attack," she said, clutching at her chest. "Remember: no sense of humor. How many times do I have to tell you that: No sense of humor. Humor can get you in all kinds of shit and we've got this won, if we don't get funny.
~ John Sandford
Pee on these plants, and you will be shot; Survivors will be shot again.
~ John Sandford
Lucas whispered hoarsely: "Leave town. Go to Los Angeles. Go to New York. If you don't go away, I'll hurt you.
~ John Sandford
Don't do that. Stay away." She was on the edge of fear. "Was he stronger?" "No. He was softer. His hands were soft. And when I relaxed, he relaxed. That's when I stamped on his instep." "Where'd you learn that?" "From my ex-husband's father. He taught me some self-defense things." "Come here." "No.
~ John Sandford
Her father had warned Letty against going for rides with highway patrolmen. "When it comes to driving, they're a little . . . out there, I guess you'd say. 'Fast' isn't good enough for them.
~ John Sandford