Quotes About Caution

Because it's a hot door and we have to be careful. You never open a door on a burning room.

Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?

Mounted on the wall beneath the fish was a brass plate. It said: IF I'D KEPT MY MOUTH SHUT I WOULDN'T BE HERE

Fair Warning dot com?" "Dot org.

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.

Over the radio, Eddie was saying, "I'm telling you, we should have tested first, Doc. Should have done it by the book. You don't come to a place with poisonous chickens if you're not sure your vehicles will hold up.

Sleep with your guns tonight, boys.

Talking to a reporter these days was like a deadly chess match; you had to think several steps ahead; you had to imagine all the possible ways a reporter might distort your statement. The atmosphere was relentlessly adversarial.

Uno no viene a un sitio lleno de pollos venenosos si no está seguro de que los vehículos responderán.

You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that beautifully explains everything all at once. That's when you need to stop and check your thinking...Beware of the delirious guy in the emergency unit with the long history of alcoholism, because you will say, 'He's just drunk,' and you'll miss the subdural hematoma.

Meriwether spent his entire day avoiding dumb bets, and he wasn't about to accept this one.

the risk we should most fear is not the risk we easily imagine. It is the risk that we don't.

There was a reason for this: To acknowledge uncertainty was to admit the possibility of error.

Success is about smart risk management, not about wild risk taking.

Moonglum sighed. "Elric—this once, let us not court the danger.

paranoid is someone with all the facts, the joke went.

Nutrition science, which after all only got started less than two hundred years ago, is today approximately where surgery was in the year 1650—very promising, and very interesting to watch, but are you ready to let them operate on you? I think I'll wait awhile.

I never sing in the shower. It's very dangerous.

I've always been a little bit cautious about what projects I step into. I don't mean to be dramatic, but I feel that every single thing you do in life, you give a piece of your soul, and I want to be responsible with that.

If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.

People are always alert to any change and skeptical by nature.