Quotes About Caution

Even though she had been warned, she tripped over the bike. She probably tripped because she'd been warned and was telling herself not to trip over the bike. She did that sometimes. It was often easier not to know what obstacles were in the way.

Don't follow someone into the dark, Stevie. I've seen it happen too many times.

Never get stabbed- it makes everything awkward.

That Nate was feeling so positive should have served as a warning, but people rarely recognize signs when they appear.

Don't let strangers touch you. And yet it is seldom strangers, I learned long before I was a teenager, who do you harm. It is always the ones closest to us: the suave chauffeur, the skilled photographer, the kind music teacher, the good friend's sober and dignified husband, the pious man of God. They are the ones your parents trust, whom they don't want to believe anything against.

V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

quoting Cary Grant) A word, like a lost opportunity, cannot be taken back once it hass been uttered.

caution dressed up as wisdom.

Cooperate with the Obama administration at your own peril. And if you have to shake his hand, make sure you don't look happy about it.

Gates recommended against a raid, although he was open to considering the strike option. He raised the precedent of the April 1980 attempt to rescue the fifty-three American hostages held in Iran, known as Desert One, which had turned catastrophic after a U.S. military helicopter crashed in the desert, killing eight servicemembers. It was a reminder, he said, that no matter how thorough the planning, operations like this could go badly wrong.

evoked my own youthful idealism, the part of me still untouched by cynicism, cold calculation, or caution dressed up as wisdom.

La mayoría elegiríamos a un médico que esté dispuesto a investigar si el diagnóstico podría ser el peor posible, en vez de uno que llegue enseguida a la conclusión de que todo está fenomenal.

Don't bargain with them, Jamie,' said the old man again. 'Don't help them, don't believe them, don't let them live one moment beyond what it takes to destroy them safely. No matter what they tell you, about why it is so necessary that you help them do whatever it is they're asking you to help them do. They are lying.

You lie down with snakes, you get up with the urge to bite back. All I'm saying.

But I kept my mouth shut. It's safer knowing more about people than they know about you.

I knew exactly what I should have said: Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

My stenographer would say, 'Fairly warned is fair afeared.

I am not one to argue with wild mushroomers who claim the distinction of being still alive.

You lie down with snakes, you get up with the urge to bite back.

These are more dangerous times than we ever have known.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure,' she said, remembering her brother's words of warning. Damn my stubbornness, she muttered.

I briefly considered whether it could be a setup. If they were on to me, though, this was already a pretty perfect venue. They didn't have to convince me to go somewhere else.

I looked at her. Why was it her question seemed suffused with double entendre? She was attractive, of course, more than attractive, but that wasn't all of it. She had a way of looking at me with a sort of confident sexual appreciation, that was it. As though she was seeing me just the way I might hope a desirable woman would see me. And she made it seem so natural, so real. I would have to be careful.

I was impressed. I had been taking care not to stand out or to otherwise become memorable, and he had spotted me anyway. He was well attuned to his environment, to the patterns that might at some point make the difference between winning and losing. Or living and dying.