Warning famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.
-- A. B. Simpson -
The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement
-- Al Gore -
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
-- Alan Kay -
I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.
-- Amanda Hocking -
Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.
-- Amy Tan -
The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.
-- Andrew Goodman -
For decades now, [Fuller] Torrey has been warning America what would happen if the dangerously mentally ill were deinstitutionalized, and it's all come true. Today, the only place we can put mental patients is on MSNBC.
-- Ann Coulter -
The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
-- Ann Voskamp -
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world
-- Aristotle -
The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning.
-- Arno Hintjens -
Phelps has given us a clear warning of the dangers of corporatism. I hope that more people hear and heed the warning.
-- Arnold Kling -
I thought you'd have the decency to change. But babe, I guess you didn't take that warning, cause I'm not about to look at your face again.
-- Avril Lavigne -
The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.
-- Barry Commoner -
I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings.
-- Bill Keller -
We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.
-- Bill McKibben -
As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.
-- Bobby Ray Inman -
Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
-- Caroline Knapp -
You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.
-- Chaka Khan -
There's one good thing about getting in trouble: It seems like you do it in steps. It seems like you don't just end up in trouble but that you kind of ease yourself into it. It also seems like the worse the trouble is that you get into, the more steps it takes to get there. Sort of like you're getting a bunch of little warnings on the way; sort of like if you really wanted to you could turn around.
-- Christopher Paul Curtis -
People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.
-- Claire Danes -
Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT.
-- Dave Barry -
Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.
-- Dave Barry -
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
-- David Ives -
Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.
-- David Suzuki -
It doesn't pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don't make sense.
-- Debra Doyle -
These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists,
-- Denis Hayes -
The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.
-- Dennis Lehane -
The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.
-- Diane Watson -
And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.
-- E. Lockhart -
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
Without Warning Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known, and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.
-- Ellen Tauscher -
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.
-- Eric Alterman -
And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
-- Frank Herbert -
Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.
-- Galway Kinnell -
When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so.
-- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -
Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
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 -
With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.
-- Henry B. Eyring -
Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.
-- Henry C. Link -
You never lose the love of God. Guilt is the warning that temporarily you are out of touch.
-- Jack Dominian -
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
-- James Buchan -
My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
-- Jamie Zawinski -
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
-- Jeff Buckley -
If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.
-- Jeff Cooper -
If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.
-- Jennifer Crusie -
Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.
-- Jim Butcher -
God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.
-- Jim George -
We are working to deploy a powerful new radar network with American early warning systems,
-- Joe Biden -
A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.
-- John Edensor Littlewood -
That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.
-- Josephine Tey -
[On lions:] It has always seemed miraculous to me that these colossal animals can move noiselessly through the bush, and are thus able to surround one without warning.
-- Joy Adamson -
...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)
-- Keith Ablow -
Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
-- Ken Keyes Jr. -
Without further warning, the sky opens up and cries.
-- Libba Bray -
I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry.
-- Libba Bray -
Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.
-- Libba Bray -
Graves: It’s going to snow. Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning. Graves: Hey, no problem. First one’s free.
-- Lilith Saintcrow -
Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again.
-- Louis Sachar -
The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.
-- Lydia M. Child -
Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
-- Marshall McLuhan -
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.
-- Matthew Arnold -
The words 'God is love' conclude a biblical warning, not a warm and fuzzy slogan. 'He who doesn't love [his neighbor] doesn't love God, for God is love.'
-- Mel White -
Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.
-- Melody Beattie -
My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.
-- Michael Marshall Smith -
Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.
-- Michelle Paver -
We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.
-- Milan Kundera -
The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.
-- N.K. Jemisin -
We're staying for the moment. ut if you do anything i find the least bit suspicious, I'll kill you. Fair Warning?
-- Nancy Holder -
The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.
-- Nancy Mairs -
If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
-- Nathan Deal -
You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.
-- Neelie Kroes -
We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we’re all too eager to deceive ourselves and others, to discern a sacred image in a grilled cheese sandwich or find a divine warning in a comet
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul
-- Nouman Ali Khan -
If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.
-- Paul Fussell -
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
-- Paul Wolfowitz -
The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.
-- Phyllis Schlafly -
We strongly oppose warning labels on cigarette packs for several reasons: first and foremost, warning labels may improperly imply that it has been scientifically established that smoking causes disease
-- R. J. Reynolds -
Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.
-- Rachel Caine -
All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.
-- Richard Adams -
If I wanted to be free, truly free, I had to choose. There were many points on the compass rose; I had to locate the few that were meant for me. Not any destination picked at random; I had to head for those that summoned me with a passion, for they were the ones that gave meaning to my life. I had to ignore the warnings of those who would tell me why I couldn't do what I wanted to do.
-- Richard Bode -
Worry is the warning light that shows I’ve stopped looking to God to meet my needs.
-- Rick Warren -
I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and love, peace and love.
-- Ringo Starr -
I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me 'smoking can cause fatal lung cancer'.
-- Robert Clark -
Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.
-- Rumi -
So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.
-- Saint Augustine -
Man will take anything you like, except warning.
-- Samuel Laman Blanchard -
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart
-- Sappho -
Any warning normally implies, even if it is tacit, that there should be changes
-- Steven Biko -
Sandry: "I am silly, now and then. My mother said I was, anyway." Daja: "If you know, you can stop it." Sandry: "Then you've never been silly or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning.
-- Tamora Pierce -
And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you're about." "Everyone keep warning me about sailors," I complained. "Why can't someone tell the sailors to stay clear of me?" Granny snorted. "Oh, you're the fierce one now! Just take care no one else catches you unawares and knocks you on the nob!
-- Tamora Pierce -
He kissed her. Without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn't have done anything else. He needed that breath she was holding. It belonged to him, and he wanted it back.
-- Tessa Dare -
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.
-- Thomas Hartwell Horne
