Best Warning Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 6

“The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.”

Giving Said Two Approach Blow Weather Sufficient Warning Compass Hurricanes Good Words

Book:the conqueror

Source: the conqueror

“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.”

Ifs Wells May Long Enough Facts Illness Minorities Warning

Book:Carnal Acts: Essays

Source: Carnal Acts: Essays

“I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.”

“The United States is a warning rather than an example to the world.”

World States United United States Example Warning

Author:Lydia M. Child

“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.”

Thinking Feels Dies Break Seeing Spring Weakness Stronger Immortality Mortality Warning Breaking Down

Book:The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

“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.”

Giving Shows Levels Distance Hills Posts Warning Crossings Railway

Author:Edith Wharton

“It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.”

Hours Graves Warning Tombs Departed Lapses

Book:Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Source: Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

“The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.”

Would Be Political Military Messages Understood Warning Eyebrows Ambiguity

Author:Alexander Haig

“On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.”

People Mind Kids Young Attitude Fairs Towns Songwriting Warning Punk Vans Concentrating Gunslinger Van Halen

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.”

People Has Beens Seems Language Dog Latin Horizon Warning

Author:John H. McWhorter

“Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see me on the street, they say 'by God, this kid is 5 foot 5, he's got a broken nose, and looks about as foreboding as a bank teller on a lunch break.'”

People Looks Kids Break Feet Streets Broken Screens Teeth Noses Tall Lunch Warning Delivering Jeopardy Omniscient Foreboding Ageless Lunch Break

Author:Rod Serling

“Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.”

Problem Light Development Majors Models Red Blind Environmental China Warning Pollution Major Problems Red Lights Smog Environmental Pollution

Author:Li Keqiang

“But we live in an age, ladies and gentlemen, where we are keeping morons alive in our gene pools by putting warnings on items that should not require warnings. The hotel I am staying in has a hair dryer, on the cord of the hair dryer there is a warning and this is what it says: “Warning! Do not use in shower!” Ladies and gentlemen if you have a friend who wants to use their hair dryer in the shower, you let them.”

Ifs Want Should Use Age Alive Hair Gentleman Hotel Staying Warning Pool Genes Showers Items Moron Cords Ladies And Gentlemen Dryers Hair Dryers

Author:Wil Anderson

“Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.”

World Needs Stage Promise Climate Climate Change Warning Sandy

Author:Kumi Naidoo

“The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss.”

Reality Hell Failing Son Kissing Friendly Warning Betray Preacher Judas

Author:Ray Comfort

“Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning.”

Men World Wells Past Nations Dangerous Drama Warning Fearful Ominous Deathless Ageless

Author:John Mason Brown

“We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way.”

People Way Trying Fun Issues Healthy Benefits Consequence Negative Excuse Warning Healthy Living Obesity Being Positive Obese Tackling Negative Consequences

Author:Andrew Lansley

“The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a certain Captain Murderer. This wretch must have been an off-shoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinity in those times. His warning name would seem to have awakened no general prejudice against him, for he was admitted into the best society and possessed immense wealth. Captain Murderer's mission was matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller

“Fear is crippling. Fear of the future can convince us that there is no way out and nothing is ever going to get better. Fear is blinding; it can make us miss the warning signs flashing right in front of our eyes. It can also make you miss those brilliant flashes of color, when the world isn't so gray. But, if you think about it, being afraid isn't such a bad thing. Because fear is a reminder that you still have something to lose. Something worth holding onto.”

“The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.”

Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings

“I will be in Orlando during the atheist convention to do my best to counter the assaults upon Christ of the atheists. I also plan on running a large newspaper ad in the Orlando Sentinel addressed to the atheists and warning the Orlando area of the atheists' vile plans for their children.”

Children Running Christ Plans Areas Atheist Scary Newspapers Warning Ads Conventions Assault Orlando Sentinels

Author:Bill Murray

“Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?”

Giving Littles Doe Fingers Warning Lungs

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“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.”

Needs Mean Computer Window Command Warning Supplies Operating Systems

Author:Dave Barry

“We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.”

“Adulterers, take warning, never admit.”

Warning Adultery

Book:The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and others

Source: The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and others

“Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!”