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Quotes About Warning

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
Pain is important. It acts as a warning. It tells us that we are damaging ourselves in some way.
~ Art Berg
James Madison, in the fourteenth Federalist Paper, warned that the "most alarming of all novelties, the most wild of all projects, the most rash of all attempts, is that of rendering us in pieces, in order to preserve our liberties and promote our happiness.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
In his farewell address, George Washington famously warned against "the baneful effects" of political enmity.41
~ Arthur C. Brooks
We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.
~ Arthur C. Clarke, 2010
Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
You revere me: but what if your reverence should some day collapse? Be careful lest a statue fall and kill you!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Out of love alone shall my despising and my warning bird fly up, not out of swamp. (...) Where one can no longer love, there one should pass by.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Yo desprecio tu desprecias; y puesto que me has advertido a mí, ¿por qué no te advertiste a ti?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Ye venerate me; but what if your veneration should some day collapse? Take heed lest a statue crush you!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! [...] out of their countenances peer the hangman and the sleuth-hound. Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't follow it, Fafhrd," the Mouser repeated—a little hopelessly, almost whiningly, it must be admitted. "Don't follow it, I say. It leads only to squidgy death. We can still go back up the rope, aye, and take your loot with us.
~ Fritz Leiber
Don't follow it, I say. It leads only to squidgy death.
~ Fritz Leiber
Are you afraid of chilli heat?' (Ni pa bu pa la?) is the customary warning for travellers on their way to Sichuan.
~ Fuchsia Dunlop
Noi non possiamo essere imparziali. Possiamo essere soltanto intellettualmente onesti: cioè renderci conto delle nostre passioni, tenerci in guardia contro di esse e mettere in guardia i nostri lettori contro i pericoli della nostra parzialità. L'imparzialità è un sogno, la probità è un dovere.
~ Gaetano Salvemini
Danger, a quest, three figures. They are close to you, but they are not your friends." She let my hand go. "Beware of them!
~ Gail Carson Levine
When we went home every winter, they warned us not to lift heavy weights because they didn't want us to lose flexibility. They wanted us to be baseball players, not only home run hitters.
~ Ryne Sandberg
Guys would always start by saying, 'You ain't going to get nothing today, Sharpe!' And I'd say, 'Know what? Don't be surprised if your name is on the waiver wire tomorrow. It could have been prevented. But you wanted to go there. So now when you see your name on the wire, you'll know who put it there.'
~ Shannon Sharpe
If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.
~ Hulagu Khan
All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
~ Damon Lindelof
And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'
~ John McCain
Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief.
~ Nostradamus
Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
~ Francis of Assisi
Crying wolf is a real danger.
~ David Attenborough