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Quotes About Warnings

I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.
~ Bill Kurtis
Politicians making grand warnings in Churchillian-sounding phrases about becoming a 'vassal state' don't help pay the bills.
~ Damian Green
I would hate for anybody not to abide by alert warnings coming from government systems.
~ Kirstjen Nielsen
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
~ Tom Waits
After he returned from Washington, Johnson came into Rowe's room and said, "I agree with everything you said." Perhaps he did agree—intellectually. But he didn't take the advice. He couldn't. He was beyond listening to warnings, as was demonstrated the next day, when the convention opened.
~ Robert A. Caro
Most fairy tales are warnings against human pride and cruelty. Purity always has its opposite…if humans had no impurities, they could never be considered pure. It's like you and me.
~ Yukiru Sugisaki
Low levels of psychological safety can create a culture of silence. They can also create a Cassandra culture – an environment in which speaking up is belittled and warnings go unheeded.
~ Amy C Edmondson
Let whoever longs to attain eternal life in heaven heed these warnings: When considering the past, contemplate these things: The evil done The good left undone
~ Adriana Trigiani
Let whoever longs to attain eternal life in heaven heed these warnings: When considering the past, contemplate these things: The evil done The good left undone The time wasted
~ Adriana Trigiani
Dunwoody had been one of General Hazen's most ardent critics, objecting at every opportunity to Hazen's investment in scientific research. He would turn up again years later, in Cuba, doing his best to obstruct the efforts of Cuban meteorologists to transmit warnings about the hurricane of 1900 as it advanced through the Caribbean.
~ Erik Larson
Before the 9/11 attack, the Bush administration cut counterterrorism funds, denied requests for more counterterrorism agents, threatened to veto additional counterterrorism spending, ignored numerous warnings about imminent attacks, and declared focusing on bin Laden a mistake.73 Later investigations would reveal, however, that at least seven months before 9/11, the Bush administration began domestic spying operations.74
~ Andrew P. Napolitano
And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.
~ George Carey
According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
~ Ferdinand Mount
It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.
~ Robert Fuoss
We were not the first people to tread where we now trod; countless ancestors had come exactly this way. And although their footprints might have been blown away by the wind, we could sense their presence if only we opened our eyes and ears to it. And we could hear their voices, too, if we listened hard enough. We could hear their warnings, their encouragements, their advice - if only we turned our head to the wind and heard the voices, faint and distant, that the wind carried
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Everything and everyone was so hungry. The monster. The Barrow folk, buying everything up when danger lurked. The City people, clutching at pretty little enchanted things. Substituting magic for people. The shining people's ancestors, when the plague threatened, ignoring the warnings of the wizards, assuring themselves magic would keep them safe as they themselves brought death upon the entire island.
~ Anne Ursu
The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.
~ Billy Graham
A little-known secret is that being a pro athlete is not that great. It's a pretty short lifespan. I know all these parents are out there driving their children to be professionals, but so many pros will tell you, 'No, you don't want to do this.'
~ Timothy Olyphant
Dreams came to men for many reasons, both as oracles and as warnings.
~ Alice Hoffman
dollars for this single piece of fruit, and carried it into my room in the Very Charming Hanoi Hotel. Like any good foreigner who's read his health warnings
~ Johann Hari
In his early years, he had invested so much energy, in his writings and in his speeches, to warning white America of the costs to themselves and to the country of their commitment to the myths and legends of America. As
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
'Storm Warnings' is a poem about powerlessness - about a force so much greater than our human powers that while it can be measured and even predicted, it is beyond human control. All 'we' can do is create an interior space against the storm, an enclave of self-protection, though the winds of change till penetrate keyholes and 'unsealed apertures.'
~ Adrienne Rich
Before you start to look at the bug, make sure that you are working on code that built cleanly—without warnings. We routinely set compiler warning levels as high as possible. It doesn't make sense to waste time trying to find a problem that the computer could find for you! We need to concentrate on the harder problems at hand.
~ Andrew Hunt
Ya se sabía cómo funcionaban las operaciones de desestabilización en América latina. Aunque ahora, en los tiempos de un nuevo consenso de Washington, el cerco financiero a AMLO se complementaba con advertencias de que en realidad aquel presidente de izquierdas no representaba los intereses ni siquiera de los más necesitados.
~ Andy Robinson