Quotes About Warning

When life looks like easy street there is danger at your door

Grant prefers to say nice things about people. But he argues that negative—and well-founded—gossip is often justified: "I feel that I have a social responsibility to speak candidly. If I don't warn people about the most manipulative and Machiavellian marauders in their midst, I'm leaving them vulnerable to attack.

we don't want to forecast but to warn. We don't ever want to forecast a disaster; we want to take actions that will prevent the disaster from happening.

After this meeting and before sailing on August 2, Troubridge had called his captains together and warned them that "they must not be surprised if they saw me with the squadron run away.

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

One peep out of you, and I'll use you for a U-bend under my bathroom sink, holes or no holes, savvy?

The lesson of Left Behind is a warning to repent the sin of critical thinking, which the fundamentalist, eager for people to embrace the Gospel of irrational nonsense, equates with "intellectual pride.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

Keep your voice down!' I warned. 'The house is asleep.' 'Come quick,' he repeated, though in a lower tone. 'And bring gun.' 'Why?

On waking, the Roman's first act was to ponder over his dreams, in case the gods had sent him a warning: 'The human race, doomed to worry, averts the night's presages by a pious offering of flour and crackling salt' (Tib., 3, 4, 10).

As I have reminded you time and time again, playing detective is dangerous and not for amateurs, and you are exactly that: a goddamn amateur when it comes to homicide investigation.

Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?

I observed the signs of impending doom

A red flag is a red flag." Hmmm. It took me well over fifty years to learn that one. The hard way. "When someone shows you who they are, believe them," said the celebrated poet Maya Angelou. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me," goes the wise saying.

They wondered at the consequences of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong.

modern psychology warns against addiction, in which the 'dopamine fix' expels the long-term projects of the heart;

he warned that progressive accumulation of debt "is perhaps the NATURAL DISEASE of all Governments. And it is not easy to conceive anything more likely than this to lead to great and convulsive revolutions of Empire.

Hamilton warned that "a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.

having warned the children not to mention the nose

Patrick Henry, the leading antifederalist, warned delegates who supported the Constitution, "They'll free your niggers.

who warned Roosevelt not to antagonize the Morgan interests without any proof of major wrongdoing.

an Anglican college in New York, which, he warned, would become "a contracted receptacle of bigotry

For legal reasons, everyone was cautioned not to exchange thoughts on paper.)

If Rockefeller generally enjoyed excellent health, there were early warning symptoms of the toll taken by the excruciating pressures of Standard Oil.