Quotes About Warning

She could have taken root. She wanted to be a Rose, somebody's Rose, their Rose—and she would have been company for the flowers. She had new memories to give them, new people to tell them of, people who would help tend to them and keep them. But they warned her. They saved her. Hazel was nobody's Rose. For better or for worse.

My mother will hear you.

I CAN'T HEAR YOU, BUT YOU'D BETTER GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW OR YOU'LL BE SORRY.

The peril was pressing; the menace unmistakable. The

But just because there are a lot of benefits to setting goals doesn't mean that there isn't a downside to them as well. As you might already suspect, clearly defined finish lines should come with a warning: Danger, you may experience escalation of commitment.

Don't pet a burning dog.

I took you out to dinner to warn you of charm. I warned you expressly and in great detail of the Flyte family. Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, Charles, it has killed you.' [Anthony Blanche to Charles Ryder]

Oh, why did nobody warn me? cried Grimes in agony. I should have been told. They should have told me in so many words. They should have warned me about Flossie, not about the fires of hell. I've risked them, and I don't mind risking them again, but they should have told me about marriage. They should have told me that at the end of that gay journey and flower-strewn path were the hideous lights of home and the voices of children.

The Chinese could also study the example of Japan's history in the first half of the twentieth century as a warning of what can happen as a country becomes richer and stronger, when support for military expansion becomes so strong that its leaders are unable to restrain superpatriotic

The doctors told me' -- her voice sang on a confidential note-- 'that if any man alive had done the consistent drinking that I have, he would have been physically shattered, my dead, and in his grave--long in his grave.

No, dear.  It's not that sort of thing.  I have this feeling you'll be in danger there.

Oh no, honey. Lots of women go through it early. Why, there was this woman over in Georgia who was only thirty-six-years-old and one day she got in her car and drove right up the stairs to the county courthouse, rolled down her window, and tossed her mother's head that she had just chopped off in her kitchen at a State policeman and hollered, Here! This is what you wanted, and drove right back down the courthouse stairs. Now that's what an early menopause will do for you if you're not careful.

E. M. Forster's science fiction story "The Machine Stops." Written in 1909, it feels eerily prescient in 2020.

This shiffer-robe belongs to Hazel Motes. Do not steal it or you will be hunted down and killed.

GO WARN THE CHILDREN OF GOD OF THE TERRIBLE SPEED OF MERCY.

the epistle to the Hebrews, in the New Testament, warns us about worshiping angels. An angel is only an angel if he reveals something of the presence and power of Jesus Christ.

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

You cannot play with fire.

As far as fireworks, it's very dangerous. You shouldn't play with them.

Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty. Children in Negroland were warned that few Negroes enjoyed privilege or plenty and that most whites would be glad to see them returned to indigence, deference and subservience.

I choose to believe that we are addicted to the rush of being offended, the idea of it, rather than believing we have become a nation of emasculated children whose only defense against an abyss of emotional agony is a trigger warning.

When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.

If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.