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Quotes About Warning

Then she wanted to tell them that Mary Paula had got herself hooked to a liar and deceiver in the international league. She wanted to say that she could tell them a story about their future brother-in-law and his deceptions that would make their pale greasy hair stand on end.
~ Maeve Binchy
Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?
~ Maggie O'Farrell
How many times must I tell all of you! Sky, ground, or target. Damn it, you don't point a gun at another person unless you are prepared to kill that person. He scowled at Ona. A careless accident could cost one of you a husband. I've told you from the beginning. The Oregon men won't accept a crippled wife. They insist on brides who are healthy and whole.
~ Maggie Osborne
dollar. It sickened me to watch it. I tried to warn anyone who
~ Maggie Sefton
My father will sit down and give you theories to explain why he does this or that, the son of the billionaire investor George Soros has said. But I remember seeing it as a kid, and thinking, At least half of this is bull. I mean, you know the reason he changes his position on the market or whatever is because his back starts killing him. He literally goes into a spasm, and it's this early warning sign.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
of its colonies entitled Warning from the West Indies, "is narrow and insecure." The school system did nothing for the "humblest" classes. He went on: "If anything these schools are a factor deepening and sharpening social distinctions." If the government did not give its people
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days, it'd die of remorse on the third—
~ Malcolm Lowry
One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
~ Mark Twain
he recalled how a voice in his head had warned that he would pay for his pleasure one day. Now that the day had come
~ Amitav Ghosh
Because the dark, the parents said, the dark is full of things it is definitely better not to meet.
~ Amos Oz
Mamas are always saying, be careful. Mine said it to me. Yours said it to you. Be careful out a mama's mouth don't mean nothing 'cept protect yourself better than I did.
~ Amy Hempel
Whatever the motivation factor, the specific ratio of grief to cruelty is immaterial. i left Ray, without warning, as he slept. Out of sight isn't out of mind but it's out of the line of vision, which is something. Because you can keep quite busy like this. Moving forward.
~ Amy Koppelman
But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. If you don't hurry up and get me out of here, I'm disappearing for good, it warned. And they you'll always be nothing.
~ Amy Tan
Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.
~ Amy Tan
Sex standing up and walking on sand will bring any man to a bad end. He
~ Andrea Camilleri
Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
chilling start to Woolf's The Waves: I was too far out in the ocean to hear the lifeguard shouting, "Shark! Shark!
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Boredom is actually a crucial warning sign—as important in its own way as physical pain. It's a sign that our capacity for wonder and delight, contemplation and attention, real play and fruitful work, has been dangerously depleted.
~ Andy Crouch
I'm warning you, I am a lethal killing machine. It was a secret government experiment. They did stuff to me. Spooky stuff... Anal stuff. It turned me into a dangerous telekinetic. As the ancient Tibetan Philosophy states Don't start none, won't be none!
~ Andy Diggle
OPEN THE TREEHOUSE DOOR OR ELSE!
~ Andy Griffiths
About Treehouse Tales WARNING! DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. IT CONTAINS THIRTEEN OF THE SILLIEST TALES THE TREEHOUSE TEAM HAVE EVER TOLD. TALES SO SILLY THEY COULD BREAK YOUR BRAIN*. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. PUT IT DOWN. PUT IT DOWN NOW. BY ORDER OF THE STORY POLICE. *Unless you don't have one, in which case you'll be fine so please disregard this warning.
~ Andy Griffiths