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Quotes About Caution

He stepped away from me. His gaze was impossible to hold. "Okay. I hear you. Be careful what you wish for, Princess.
~ Ilona Andrews
Safety glasses, Catalina!
~ Ilona Andrews
that's why we don't poke random shit we find in the woods with a stick
~ Ilona Andrews
Red wine?" Fiona squinted at the glass. "Kate, if you spill the wine on yourself, they'll bury you in this dress." "Maybe wine isn't a good idea," George said.
~ Ilona Andrews
And that's why we don't poke random shit we find in the woods with a stick," Keelan said.
~ Ilona Andrews
To drink or not to drink? That was the question. I sipped it. If he'd spiked it, I could still kill him before I passed out.
~ Ilona Andrews
When you find freaky shit in the scary woods, you don't poke it with a stick. It can explode in your face. What do you do instead?
~ Ilona Andrews
with about twenty-five feet of space between each to make sure nobody happened to trip and accidentally fall into a slaughter.
~ Ilona Andrews
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
~ Ilona Andrews
May God protect us especially from our friends, for we shall manage to watch out for our enemies ourselves.
~ Immanuel Kant
Anywhere is dangerous if you carry danger with you.
~ Iris Murdoch
To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was "system," and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was "industry", indecision when right was "caution", and blind stubbornness when wrong, "determination.
~ Isaac Asimov
You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can't always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain that the outcome will be far removed from anything you've planned and that it would be entirely unpredictable.
~ Isaac Asimov
He clearly knew how dangerous it was to have an excited twelve-year-old handling a powerful weapon.
~ Isaac Asimov
To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was "system," an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was "industry," indecision when right was "caution," and blind stubbornness when wrong, "determination." And withal he wasted no money, killed no man needlessly, and meant extremely well.
~ Isaac Asimov
But I'd be killed, and I never like to count on that when I'm making plans. It doesn't pay off.
~ Isaac Asimov
Ha séta?rhajón volnánk, talán el is lehetne intézni. De mi a nap iránt fogunk leereszkedni. Gondolom, nem akarsz egyszerre megvakulni, megsülni és sugárfertÅ'zést kapni, nem igaz?
~ Isaac Asimov
He had gained it originally by virtue of his position at the head of the Kalganian navy, and through a lamentable lack of caution on the part of the previous lord.
~ Isaac Asimov
She entered the place of her dreams along a much traveled path and returned treading very carefully in order not to shatter the tenuous visions against the harsh light of consciousness.
~ Isabel Allende
Todo tiembla bajo nuestros pies, no conocemos seguridades, si nos preguntan cómo estamos, la respuesta es «sin novedad» o «más o menos»; nos movemos de una incertidumbre a otra, caminamos cautelosos en una región de claroscuros, nada es preciso, no nos gustan los enfrentamientos, preferimos negociar.
~ Isabel Allende
Pasión es entusiasmo incontenible, energía exuberante y entrega decidida a algo o a alguien. Lo bueno de la pasión es que nos impulsa hacia delante y nos mantiene comprometidos y jóvenes. Me he estado entrenando durante años para llegar a ser una anciana apasionada, tal como otros se entrenan para escalar montañas o competir en ajedrez. No quiero que la cautela propia de los años destruya mi pasión por la vida.
~ Isabel Allende
A caution to aspiring writers: not everything you write is worth keeping for the benefit of future generations.) When she gave me that notebook, my mother somehow intuited that I would have to dig up my Chilean roots, and that lacking a land into which to sink them I would have to do that on paper.
~ Isabel Allende
This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you. (page 37)
~ Ishmael Beah
My father said, '10 minus one is zero.' It means that even if you do good things 10 times, it is no use when you do some bad thing once. But it doesn't mean that I think I have positive image, so I always need to be careful about what I'm doing. I don't want to frame myself.
~ Park Bo-gum