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Quotes About Warning

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
~ C. S. Lewis
"Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE."
~ Michael Catt
Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
God save us from people who mean well.
~ Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
Audible at five miles painful at three and lethal at one.
~ Winchester Cathedral
If the thunder is not loud the peasant forgets to cross himself.
~ Russian proverb
Ya got to watch them bears, Lillie Girl, " her father said, looking worried, " 'specially the renegade ones. They'll turn you every way but loose.
~ B.J. Daniels, Renegade's Pride
The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.
~ Yehuda Bauer
Whenever politicians start talking in mystical terms, beware.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
It is one thing to continue smoking despite general statistics that connect smoking with lung cancer. It is a very different thing to continue smoking despite a concrete warning from a biometric sensor that has just detected seventeen cancerous cells in your upper left lung. And if you are willing to defy the sensor, what will you do when the sensor forwards the warning to your insurance agency, your manager, and your mother?
~ Yuval Noah Harari
green monkey, for example, has been observed calling 'Careful! A lion!' when there was no lion around. This alarm conveniently frightened away a fellow monkey who had just found a banana, leaving the liar all alone to steal the prize for itself.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
He never warned voters that algorithms would take their jobs, nor did he suggest building a firewall on the border with California.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
As American freemen we can not but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
~ Zachary Taylor
Don't ever write a check with your mouth you can't cash with your ass. Oh, and one more thing... don't wake the mother.
~ Zack Snyder
Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.
~ zelazny roger ii
Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.
~ zelazny roger ii
Her mother paused for a moment before hanging up the phone. "Watch your back, dear. Every family needs a black sheep. It would be an awful lot of trouble for us to come up with another one, should something happen to you.
~ Deborah Blake
You might even say their bark is as bad as their bite.
~ Deborah Blake
Or I just sent my dragon into the woods to fetch rodents for you because I'm the wicked witch your grandmother warned you about.
~ Deborah Blake
If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning.
~ Deborah Blake
And it wasn't just one warning. Eight years before the Panel on Climate Change's report, an assessment of global warming's impacts in New York City had also cautioned of potential flooding. "Basically pretty much everything that we projected happened," says Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the cochair of the Panel on Climate Change and coauthor of that 2001 report.
~ Deborah Blum
What's he saying?" Buggy asked, her voice shaky. "That there's something up in the attic that we should be careful of because it could be dangerous. "Oh, uh-uh, I'm not going up there," Buggy said, You can send Shaundelle up there, but I'm keeping my little white ass down here.
~ Deborah Leblanc
What about the main door over that way?" "Don't try it. That one only looks like a door." "What is it, then?" asked Ari, as the sliding panel snicked shut again behind them. "A burglar alarm," said Jessan. "Or so your sister tells me. You wake up when the burglar starts screaming.
~ Debra Doyle
I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.
~ Debra Winger