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“One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.”

Thinking Want Ends Sometimes Certain Degrees March Caution Limbs Consultants Want To See You

Author:Elizabeth Edwards

“Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.”

Should Motto Caution Exuberance

Author:John Chafee

“We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.”

Made Decision Party Exercise Organization Thirds Terrorist Staff Caution Hostage Editorials Cnn Decisions Made Audio Third Parties

Author:Jim C. Walton

“We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.”

Long War Principles Security Cold Unions Superiors Collectives Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Caution Prudent Weaponry Collective Security

Author:Theodore C. Sorensen

“Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.”

Plant Occasions Shore Caution Tents

Book:A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty

Source: A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty

“Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.”

Government Force Nations Security Honor Grateful Iraq Committed Accomplish Missions Thanks Troops Caution Precision Our Troops

Author:Mike Fitzpatrick

“I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.”

Men Should Young Girl Wonder Handle Young Man Caution Good Girl Bad Girl

Author:David Niven

“You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.”

Plans Exercise Caution

Book:Art of Money Getting

Source: Art of Money Getting

“You have no idea how crazy I am, I should be wearing yellow Caution tape, I'm that bonkers.”

Should Ideas Crazy No Idea Yellow Tape Caution

Book:The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June

Source: The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June

“In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.”

Men Ends Science Wise Old Man Caution Wise Counsel

Author:Michael Crichton

“If a thought or an action does not feel right, it is a caution flag from the soul.”

Ifs Feels Doe Soul Action Positive Attraction Law Of Attraction Flags Caution Feels Right Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem

Author:Anthony D. Williams

“ADAMSBERG WAS NOT A MAN WHO WENT IN FOR EMOTION: he skirted around strong feelings with caution, like swifts who only brush past windows with their wings, never going in, because they know it will be difficult to get out. He had often found dead birds in the village houses back home, imprudent visitors who had ventured inside and never again found their way back to the open air. Adamsberg considered that when it came to love, humans were no wiser than birds.”

Knows Men Way Love Humans Feelings Home Age Past Found House Strong Difficult Emotion Air Bird Window Wings Village Wiser Brushes Caution Back Home Visitors Strong Feeling Found Dead

Author:Fred Vargas

“Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic."”

People Want Success Parent Wind Achievement Coaches Boss Realistic Spouse Caution

Book:Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More

Source: Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More

“I constantly caution our teams: 'Play your game, just play your game. Eventually, if you play your game, stick to your style, class will tell in the end.' This does not mean that we will always outscore our opponent, but it does insure that we will not beat ourselves.”

Ifs Mean Doe Ends Play Games Sports Class Team Style Beats Sticks Opponents Caution

Book:They Call Me Coach

Source: They Call Me Coach

“A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.”

Inspirational May Turns Half Inspirational Life Caution Careless Carefree

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.”

Wisdom Wise Mortals Caution Wisest Second Thoughts

Book:The Tragedies of Euripides

Source: The Tragedies of Euripides

“Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.”

Source: Psychology and religion: West and East

“I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons on the Hill! Wallowing in blabber and spew, regiments of ex-lawyers and used-car salesmen attempt to distract us from the naughty little surprises served up by deregulated corporate America.”

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.”

Knows Firsts Higher Standards Germany Vacation Assistance Caution Greece Standards Of Living Populism High Prices

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.”

Men May Said Age Young Names Grows Conscience Young Man Cowardice Caution

Author:Hesketh Pearson

“We runners talk about having fun but I don't think anybody believes us. We talk about discipline and endurance, we take care, we exercise caution, we watch our diets and monitor our pace. We are ascetics who talk, unconvincingly, of the bracing enjoyment of self-abuse.”

Thinking Believe Self Care Fun Watches Discipline Exercise Abuse Take Care Having Fun Diets Enjoyment Endurance Pace Runners Caution

Author:Peter Sagal

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.”

Knows Should Pain Mother Doubt Brother Birth Lonely Unhappy Twins Caution Twin Brother

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?”

Wit Significant Latin Caution Vigilance Latin Proverb

Author:Josh Billings

“Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.”

Years Firsts Soul Body Law Boys Fire Teaching Youth Habit Exercise Labor Wine Lays Add Caution Pouring

Author:Plato

“An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.”

Needs Mean Method Satisfaction Punishment Enjoyment Caution Conducting Enticing

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.”

Ifs Giving Science Social Answers Cutting Negative Scientist Harder Philosopher Commit Preacher Caution Short Cuts

Book:Coming of Age in Samoa

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.”

Restraint Caution Fasting

Book:Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.)”

Writing Remember Novel Wind Pages Thrown Bottles Ruined Caution

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.”

Men Should Decision Caution

Book:The Walking Drum

Source: The Walking Drum

“Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?”

Hands Pessimism Caution Hand In Hand

Author:Lynne Truss

“He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.”

Earth Cost Caution

Author:John Ray

“...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.”

Wise Letting Go Oneself Blindness Caution Carefree

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.”

Giving Mind Done Helping Hands Wanted Science Left Understanding Effects Instruments Guides Naked Suggestions Caution

Book:The Great Instauration

Source: The Great Instauration

“A conservative party that reshapes its self-presentation according to the suggestions of the liberal media, of course, may very well get what such lack of courage deserves. Having been told by their opponents for years that the key to Republican victory was a softening of the message and more smiles, Republicans have now apparently taken a big dose of this medicine. One might counsel more caution in accepting medicine from one's enemies.”

“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.”

Self Culture Cases Honestly Symbols Labels Denial Substance Visible Warning Cheese Caution Cottages Dairy Self-denial Warning Labels

Author:Caroline Knapp

“Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.”

Life May Joy Literature Prepared Preparation Expenses Caution Emergencies Howards End

Author:E. M. Forster

“The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.”

World Should Wells Ideas Real Humanity Impossible Evolution Degrees Complexes Real World Engineering Unpredictable Caution

Author:Ken MacLeod

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