Warning quotes
213 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences."
"All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world"
"Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand."
"Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart"
"How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning."
"Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart."
""Smoking may cause fetal injury or premature birth." ... I found my brand. Just don't get the ones that say, "Lung Cancer.""
"Inspiration gives no warnings."
"Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose."
"And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation."
"It doesn't pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don't make sense."
"In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."
"One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back."
"We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold."
"When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers."
"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"
"His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning ."
"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"
"If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen."
"The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing."
