Warning Quotes - Page 13

• Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning. Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.

  John Keble

  Morning, Eye, Pride

  John Keble (1874). “The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year”, p.189

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• You've probably heard the term, 'red flag warning.' That means there are extreme conditions. Low humidity, high temperatures. The fuels are extremely dry and volatile. We classify those in East Tennessee as 'fire days' so if your fire class day is a 1, it's relatively low. A class 5 day would be an extremely high danger day. A day like Sunday would be a 4 or a 5.

  Bruce Miller

  Mean, Sunday, Fire

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• Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call.

  Chris Shays

  Real, Party, Sea

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• Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Men, Echoes

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.850, Wordsworth Editions

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• WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Names, Assuming

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• 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

  Self, Culture, Labels

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• This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger.

  David Letterman

  New York, Doctors, Cities

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• The thing that all of us should strive for is to so live, keeping the commandments of the Lord, that He can answer our prayers. If we will live worthy, then the Lord will guide us - by a personal appearance, or by His actual voice, or by His voice coming into our mind, or by impressions upon our heart and our soul. And oh, how grateful we ought to be if the Lord sends us a dream in which is revealed to us the beauties of the eternity or a warning and direction for our special comfort. Yes, if we so live, the Lord will guide us for our salvation and for our benefit.

  Harold B. Lee

  Dream, Prayer, Grateful

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• 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

  Rocks, Vices, Burning

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• If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

  Paul Fussell

  Time, Alarms, Term

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• Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of frenzied anxiety attacks would descend upon me without warning. My body was possessed by a chaotic, demonic force which led to my shaking, pacing and violently hitting myself across the chest or in the head. This self-flagellation seemed to provide a physical outlet for my invisible torment, as if I were letting steam out of a pressure cooker.

  Douglas Bloch

  Self, Anxiety, Pressure

  Douglas Bloch (1999). “When Going Through Hell...Dont' Stop!: A Survivor's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and Clinical Depression”, p.17, BookBaby

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• When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Kings, Men

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• You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings. ... You can't argue with the universe. It's not about that. It's more about relaxing and knowing that you can handle it and feeling empowered. Knowing you have the power to do whatever the hell you want to do. That's what it's about. It really is.

  Chaka Khan

  Heart, Knowing, Feelings

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres

  Margaret Atwood

  Animal, Air, Views

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable vs broadcast TV.

  Drew Curtis

  Dog, Ghetto, Thinking

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• 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

  Passion, Rose, Compass

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• 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

  Brotherhood, Cost, Assassins

  "Assassin's Creed: Unity". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.

  Omer Bartov

  Holocaust, Humanity, Survival

  Omer Bartov (2000). “Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity”, p.176, Oxford University Press

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• Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts box that says, “Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Simple, Giving, Comfort

  Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.187, Vintage

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• We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the warning that all we gather will be lost, but also that much of it can be collected again; we can learn from its splendid ambition that what was one man's experience can become, through the alchemy of words, the experience of all, and how that experience, distilled once again into words, can serve each singular reader for some secret, singular purpose.

  Alberto Manguel

  Ambition, Men, Imagination

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.36, Vintage Canada

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• I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly; For, when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Past, Men, Errors

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.98, Delphi Classics

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• I'm hoping that "Nothin' On You", "Billionaire" and "Just The Way You Are" - songs that I produced... I hope that it's a warning for people. I hope it lets them know that I'm a little unorthodox when it comes to genres and styles.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, People, Style

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with great expectation battling the cynicism of experience. You sit waiting, wondering about the upcoming moments of revelation. Somewhere in the back of your head is the dour warning that disappointment is inevitable but you don't really believe it or you wouldn't be there. The best eaters are always optimists.

  Stuart Stevens

  Disappointment, Believe, Food

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• Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Good Night, Sweet

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. II”, p.195

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• Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart

  Sappho

  Love, Heart, Whirlwind

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.46, Univ of California Press

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