Quotation Explorer - 'Warning'

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins
The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug. - B.H. Liddell Hart
We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord. - Arthur C. Clarke
The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
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
I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me "smoking can cause fatal lung cancer". - Robert Clark
Let the warning of the tyrants of the past be recognized for it shall be the same one ringing out when the tyrants of the present are unleashed. - Sai Marie Johnson
If the people could be awakened to their senses by mere preaching or writing, then probably no person would be smoking upon seeing the statutory warning on cigarette packets. - Anuj Somany
Products come with a WARNING label that reveals what they are made of. People come with one too; it is found in their actions. - Steve Maraboli
Even the simplest poemMay destroy your immunity to human emotions.All poems must carry a Government warning. WordsCan seriously affect your heart. - Elma Mitchell
With warning hand I mark time's rapid flightFrom life's glad morning to its solemn nightYet through God's love, I also showThere's light above me by the shade below. - Ralph Greenleaf Whittier
ADMONITION, n. Gentle reproof, as with a meat-axe. Friendly warning. Consigned by way of admonition, His soul forever to perdition. Judibras - Ambrose Bierce
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. - James A. Garfield
Dreams are sacred future events. It can be either a fate or a warning. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Socialists seem to think George Orwell’s 1984 is a suggestion, or at least are unashamed of mimicking the methods of the totalitarian state Orwell depicted. Libertarians know it to be a warning, and a government that micro-manages all aspects of humanity an intolerable reality. - A.E. Samaan
Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink,I think female alcoholics ought to be told not to fuck - George Carlin
It is vital that parents have the courage to speak up and intervene before Satan succeeds. President Boyd K. Packer has taught that when morality is involved, we have both the right and the obligation to raise a warning voice. - Larry R. Lawrence
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.' And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning, 'That path leads ever down into stagnation. - Frank Herbert
I’ve traveled this road for many decades and I still don’t know how to go. I am a wanderer, traversing mountains of time. There is no fault, only fault lines that tremor and quake, barring me, no warning. Aftershocks. -Broken Places - Rachel Thompson
I really should come with a warning label. - Tom Upton
If a man tells you he's an asshole & that you deserve better, believe him...it's a warning. It's best you listen before he proves it to you. - April Mae Monterrosa
Nothing's as changeable as a person's heart. Take hope and a warning from that. - julian fellows
Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end. - László Krasznahorkai
Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking. - Jim Butcher
Police Officer Angry Aggression Theory (POAAT) is why you need to video record the police before they shoot you. Always start the video camera at the first contact, as it can go sour at any time and without warning. - Steven Magee
Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address. - Matt Groening
...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning... - Tamara Rose Blodgett
Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right? - Donna Lynn Hope
I keep warning and warning, and nobody seems willing to listen. One of these days someone is going to wake up to the fact that I'm serious when I say never to attack my sister without looking over your shoulder for me. (Rhoan) - Keri Arthur
God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment. - Jim George
Dreams can be either fate or a warning. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning. - A.E. Samaan
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