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Quotes About Warning

She heeded Bluebeard's warning, thought Pandora was a fool. There are some memories better abandoned. Common wisdom demanded examination of the past, probing of childhood pain and trauma. Then—acceptance, release, and ultimately forgiveness.
~ Lisa Unger
You know Travis, Maggie," Leila said. "He's toxic. Like, you can't touch him—it burns. And Marshall. He's just different when his father's around. I hate to say it. I'm afraid of him. Of both of them. My own brother and nephew.
~ Lisa Unger
Miles leaned forward and spoke earnestly into the secure holovid recorder. I just want you to know, Gregor, that if the planet melts down over all this, it wasn't my fault. The trip-wire was laid long before I stumbled across it.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Achievement is devastating, or at least disorienting, and they don't warn you in advance. It's the sudden change of momentum and direction, I think.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm not saying you were wrong, Royesse. This time. I'm saying you were running blindfolded. And if it wasn't headlong into a tree, it was only by the mercy of the gods, and not by any care of yours.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles paused at the door. "Ah—about Tav Calhoun—" "Yes?" "You know that janitor's closet on the second level?" "Vaguely." She looked at him in unease. "Please be sure somebody checks it tomorrow morning. But don't go up there before then." "I wouldn't dream of it," she assured him faintly.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Love changes us, Son. Ray rose to his feet, crossing the room slowly to set his empty glass on the bar. Don't make the same mistake I did, Rowdy. Once it's over that first time, once you've let another man claim what's yours and yours alone, you lose a part of your soul. Getting it back is hell. A hell I hope you never know.
~ Lora Leigh
If he's dumb enough to tempt a woman wielding a knife, then he deserves everything after that.
~ Lora Leigh
Love changes us, Son." Ray rose to his feet, crossing the room slowly to set his empty glass on the bar. "Don't make the same mistake I did, Rowdy. Once it's over that first time, once you've let another man claim what's yours and yours alone, you lose a part of your soul. Getting it back is hell. A hell I hope you never know.
~ Lora Leigh
Even his I love you's, she said, were like tiny daggers, like little needles or safety pins. Beware of a man who says he loves you but is incapable of a passionate confession; of melting into a sob.
~ Lorrie Moore
Once more, as in the times of Nero and Diocletian and Attila, people were whispering of the Antichrist.
~ Louis de Wohl
passed the station, the stationmaster leaned out. "Didn't think you could do it, mister! Some shootin'!" "Thanks Ã¢â'¬Â¦ And thanks for the warning." He indicated the dead man. "Better get him out of the street. He's a big man and he'll spoil mighty fast." He started Buck toward the Botalla trail. Whatever was going to happen
~ Louis L'Amour
who might have ventured into the Strip were usually warned in time and rode away to more tolerant
~ Louis L'Amour
Oft times a blade across the room beyond the reach of a hand means that death is nearer. I
~ Louis L'Amour
you stick your lunch-hooks into my corn bin without I say and you'll catch yourself a death of cold, because I'll open your belly with a shotgun.
~ Louis L'Amour
Sure as you tell somethin' to one person, they will tell somebody else, an' warn them not to tell. Of course, they do.
~ Louis L'Amour
In a time when the chance of another civil war did not seem remote, a philosophy that warned against the idolatry of ideas was possibly the only philosophy on which a progressive politics could have been successfully mounted.
~ Louis Menand
Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, my fair lady." D.J. was walking across the playground with his head down.
~ Louis Sachar
Never laugh at a shoelace!
~ Louis Sachar
die a slow and painful death. Always. If you get bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard, you might as well go into the shade of the oak trees and lie in the hammock. There is nothing anyone can do to you anymore.
~ Louis Sachar
When Laurie said 'Good-by', he whispered significantly, It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on you; so mind what you do, or I'll come and bring you home.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Don't let that young giant come near me, he worries me worse than mosquitoes, whispered the old lady to Amy, as the rooms filled and Laurie's black head towered above the rest. He has promised to be very good today, and he can be perfectly elegant if he likes, returned Amy, gliding away to war Hergules to beware of the dragon, which warning cased him to haunt the old lady with a devotion that nearly distracted her.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I hope you will be a great deal better, dear, but you must keep watch over your 'bosom enemy,' as Father calls it, or it may sadden, if not spoil your life. You have had a warning; remember it, and try with heart and soul to master this quick temper, before it brings you greater sorrow and regret than you have known today.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Io sono una strega e, un giorno, il mio travestimento cadrà e voi mi vedrete quale sono realmente: vecchia, brutta, cattiva e perduta. Guardatevi da me, finché siete in tempo. Vi ho avvertito. Ora amatemi a vostro rischio e pericolo.
~ Louisa May Alcott