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Quotes About Warning

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.
~ Bill McKibben
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
~ Frank Herbert
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss
~ Simon Haynes, Hal Spacejock
I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
~ Hortense Calisher
Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries sustained while petting.
~ Love The Stacks Bookstore
Know this. If you're here to hurt my ship, or my crew, I will make sure you truly do know sufferi
~ Kiersten Fay, Demon Possession
It's not dystopia to think history will repeat itself.
~ Mord McGhee, Murder Red Ink
Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
~ James Joyce
First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.
~ Nicholas Sparks
His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
~ Queen Victoria
The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.
~ Ron Paul
It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
~ Ernest A. Fortin
Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
~ Alan Bennett
Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarrassing way to die.
~ Aaron Allston
he wrote a trenchant warning of the "far-reaching consequences over the wider destiny, not only of South Africa, but of all Negro Africa" that would flow from the fact that Britain had set up the new, independent Union of South Africa with an all-white legislature.
~ Adam Hochschild
We run the risk of someday seeing our native population collapse and disappear," fretfully declared the permanent committee of the National Colonial Congress of Belgium that year. "So that we will find ourselves confronted with a kind of desert.
~ Adam Hochschild
I am Trouble with a capital T. I'm Death with a capital D. If you give me any problems at all, I won't hesitate to kill you. Do you understand?
~ Adrian McKinty
She remembers Voltaire's warning about the perfect being the enemy of the good.
~ Adrian McKinty
She told me something that has stayed with me. Ferber said, 'Beware the clowns.' The leaders who start out as jokes—people make fun of them, they're caricatures, cartoons in newspapers, and people decide they are harmless. Those men are the most dangerous. The day comes when they use their power against their own people." Alda
~ Adriana Trigiani