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Quotes About Advice

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.
~ Anne Rice
Don't go into that swamp, Quinn," Aunt Queen said, abruptly appealing to me, as if from the core of her being. "Don't go to that accursed Sugar Devil Island. I know your adventuresome spirit, Quinn. Don't be proud of your discovery. Don't go. You must stay away from that place.
~ Anne Rice
She has been my guiding lamp many a time
~ Anne Rice
to sputter and giggle—Baby too. "I followed my piss!" I said between hiccupping laughter. "She followed her piss and her dreams came true!" Rachel screamed. "Follow your piss, Obi-Wan Kenobi," Barbara intoned.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
In my country they have proverb: 'Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.' " This was intriguing. Kate said, "Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
~ Anne Tyler
She wished she had had a mother. Well, she had had a mother, but she wished she'd had one who had taught her how to get along in the world better.
~ Anne Tyler
Always have a purpose,' his father used to tell him. 'Act like you're heading someplace purposeful, and none of the low-life will mess with you.' He had also said, 'Never trust a man who starts his sentences with Frankly,' and 'Nine tenths of a good sidearm pitch is in the flick of the wrist,' and 'If you want to sell a person something, look off elsewhere as you're speaking, not straight into his eyes.
~ Anne Tyler
Never wear backless shoes for a social occasion.
~ Anne Tyler
she had warned Kate not ever to let a man meddle with the housework. "He'll get all carried away with it," she'd said, "and your life won't never be your own after that.
~ Anne Tyler
On weekends, she had once told us, she liked to go to Stebbins hardware and ask the gray-haired men who clerked there how to fix a sagging door, or what to do about a curling wallpaper seam. She really did need their advice, she said; but also, she found it a comfort. It took her back to the time when her father was alive.
~ Anne Tyler
A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.
~ Annie Barrows
Your word is pardon and gentleness for the penitent, Your word is holy instruction, eternal teaching; It is light to brighten, advice to hearten; It is voice of help, fire that burns, Way, truth, sublime splendor, Life—eternity." —Poem written in the minor seminary
~ Scott Wright
The one who walks with the wise will become wise, but a companion of fools will suffer harm.
~ Selwyn Hughes
The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.
~ Seth Godin
come not between the dragon and his wrath
~ Shakespeare , William
May I offer you some advice? I'd rather you offered me a fast horse and a head start, Richard said with a tight smile. But I'll take the advice, too.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Decirle a la gente lo que realmente piensas es a menudo una idea malísima. Como solía decir la abuela, la gente sensata vierte aceite en aguas revueltas, no nitroglicerina.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
Hazel McKinley, savvy as always, did take the time to advise the restaurant manager to cut out and frame that piece of vomit-splattered carpet, as it was likely to be worth millions someday.
~ Sherill Tippins
You are incredibly wise. (Kat) Only when it comes to other people. It's easy to see how to fix their lives. It's much harder to see the cracks in your own house. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If everyone does as I've instructed, then things should work out the way they're meant to. (Acheron) And if we don't? (Talon) We're all screwed. (Acheron) Gee, Ash, you're just so damn comforting. (Nick) I try to be anyway. (Acheron) You fail admirably. (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You go to him for advice? He's only what? Five years old? I swear I own older sweaters. (Tory)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I need dating advice. Fast." Ash arched a single brow at that. "I'm useless. I've never been on one." The three human men turned to gape at him. "What?" Ash asked them defensively. Nick started laughing. "Oh man, this is priceless. Don't tell me the great Acheron is a virgin?" Ash gave him a droll look. "Yeah, Nick. I'm lily-white.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I told you not to piss off Noir. One day you're going to listen to me. (Asmodeus) Why start now? (Jaden) Ah, you're right. Bled so much now, it doesn't really matter, does it? (Asmodeus)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I wonder what Talon would say. (Gallagher) He would tell you not to piss me off. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon