Warning Quotes

History is a vast early warning system. (Norman Cousins)
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. View quote
James Russell Lowell
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY." View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck. View quote
George Carlin
My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others. View quote
Jamie Zawinski
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. View quote
James A. Garfield
As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me. View quote
George Müller
Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all. View quote
Michelle Paver
Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk. View quote
Spencer Bachus
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. View quote
Michael Marshall Smith
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. (Felix Adler)
When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough. View quote
Robert Jordan
Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
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. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther. View quote
Anne Rice
I want to be where your heart is home I want to see you with the light in the morning There's never been such a beautiful warning to me, to me. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning. View quote
Ann Coulter
So if you think this is going to save you...If you think anything is going to save you...Please consider this your final warning. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; Tis hard to part when friends are dear,- Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own time, Say not "Good-night," but in some brighter clime, Bid me "Good-morning." View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. (Virginia Woolf)
The United States is...a warning rather than an example to the world. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
We are not pursuing research to develop ABM space systems. There are studies to improve systems of warning against a missile attack, communications and navigation systems and to develop ground-based ABM defences. View quote
Sergei Akhromeyev
It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others. View quote
Ashleigh Brilliant
The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even make us look at ourselves in a new light... thinking about power and its complex manifestations may not simply lead to a better understanding of the abstract complexities of society, but may have an effect on one‟s own image and identity. Perhaps a warning label should be placed on the cover... View quote
Kenneth Boulding