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Quotes About Warning

I cannot stress this enough - if you try to install an HDTV in a non-HDTV compatible house, you may tear the space-time continuum.
~ Ed Helms
If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.
~ Paul Fussell
I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood
~ Scott Westerfeld
Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?
~ Robin McKinley
A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use.
~ Virgil Miller Newton
Time will say nothing but I told you so.
~ W. H. Auden
In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.
~ Yosef Abramowitz
Her heart pounded as [Cam's] lips bypassed hers and came to a stop, whispering in her ear: 'Don't let him flip you off next time.
~ Lauren Kate
And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.
~ N.K. Jemisin
NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR Per G.G.,Chief of Ordnance
~ Mark Twain
It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.
~ Mark Twain
Well, I know. It's jam—that's what it is. Forty times I've said if you didn't let that jam alone I'd skin you. Hand me that switch.
~ Mark Twain
We sent a sheik to arrest him if he had the authority, or to warn him, if he had not, that by the laws of Egypt the crime he was attempting to commit was punishable with imprisonment or the bastinado.
~ Mark Twain
Hi, if you slice your fucking thumb off, don't come crying to us, Round-eye, you bought the book. Take some fucking responsibility for your life. Or
~ Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Noli me tangere, noli me legere, noli me videre, noli me
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
my point being, what if my attacks are enterly unrelated attributable in fact to something entirely else, perhaps for instance just warning shocks brought on by my own crumbling biology, tiny flakes of unknown chemical origin already burning holes through the fabric of my mind, dismantling memories, undoing even the strongest powers of imagination and reason? how then do you fly from that path?
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
And if one day you find yourself passing by that house, don't stop, don't slow down, just keep going. There's nothing there. Beware.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
hearing their death before the actual impact reverberates through the hull—and there never really had been time for lifeboats . . .
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
When building monsters don't be surprised when they become monstrous.
~ Marlon James
The misleading effect of books like George Orwell's 1984 is to project into the future a state of affairs that already exists.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Pain is nature's way of telling us that something is wrong. Patiently, pain goes on telling us this, long after we've got the message.
~ Martin Amis
Hamlet doesn't fully see that his metaphysical miseries constitute a subliminal symptom of grief; and this was exactly my case. I thought I was sick, I thought I was dying (maybe that is what bereavement actually asks of you). Literature gives us these warnings about the main events, but we don't recognize the warnings until the events have come and gone. Isabel, my senior in the loss of a sibling, told me that you just have to take it, like weather—yes, like sleet in your face.
~ Martin Amis
That's why I tell the children not to chew gum. First it's gum, then rock music, then marijuana and . . .
~ Martin Cruz Smith