Warning Quotes - Page 2

• How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

  Jonathan Swift

  Advice, Mankind

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.608

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.

  George Ohsawa

  Judgement, Healthy, Unhappy

  "Essential Ohsawa: From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics". Book edited by Carl Ferré and Herman Aihara, p. 77, 1994.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.37, Hachette UK

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Opportunity, Earthquakes, Emergencies

  "Martyrs in Paradise". Book by Terry Reese Downing, 2009.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

  Jodi Picoult

  Habit, Shout Out, Behinds

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Soul, Guilt, Your Soul

  400 Copy quote

• All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

  David Ives

  Heart, Crafts, Break

  4 Copy quote

• I gave them a fair warning

  George W. Bush

  Military, Fairs

  4 Copy quote

• Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

  Tim O'Brien

  Politician, Cigarette, Packs

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  Giving, Closest

  "The Lonely Dead". Book by Michael Marshall Smith, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Teaching, Interesting

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.57, Broadway Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Adulterers, take warning, never admit.

  Samuel Beckett

  Adultery

  Samuel Beckett (2010). “The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and others”, p.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!"

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Wise, Wisdom, Morning

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.510, Jazzybee Verlag

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Enforcement, Periods, Gentle

  12 Copy quote

• It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Might, Incredibles, Omen

  Jorge Luis Borges (1962). “Ficciones”, p.90, Grove Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.

  Paul McCartney

  Believe, People, Holocaust

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Edith Wharton

  Distance, Giving, Levels

  7 Copy quote

• Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

  Kurt Cobain

  Sad, Nature, Morning

  "Journals". Book by Kurt Cobain, November 2002.

  121 Copy quote

  Show source

• Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

  Raymond Aron

  Party, Practice, Names

  Raymond Aron (2011). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Dream, Crazy

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Spring, Thinking, Stronger

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Surgeon General's warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority.

  Bill Hicks

  Cancer, Heart, Redneck

  7 Copy quote

• [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

  Moving, Animal, Lions

  18 Copy quote

• Do you think that your sin is hidden away? Do you think that men will never know it? Well, you should remember that God knows it already. And you should remember, second, that sin continued in will inevitably come to light. Usually it will be exposed in this life. Certainly it will be exposed when you stand before God and God's record books are opened. That which is whispered in a corner shall be shouted from a housetop. God will bring every secret thing to judgment, we are told. What warning to our hearts!

  John R. Rice

  Book, Heart, Men

  7 Copy quote

• My first warning is to my government officers to not presume citizens as thieves.

  Narendra Modi

  Government, Thieves, Citizens

  "PM Modi's exclusive interview with Times Now: Full transcript". Interview with Arnab Goswami, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. June 28, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source