Top 100 A Warning Quotes
#1. 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.
Ann Coulter
#2. I wish theater criticism in this country could be more of a companion piece to the experience than a warning about where not to spend your money.
Anna D. Shapiro
#3. Never use a warning when you mean undo.
Aza Raskin
#4. Impertinent children ought to be given six coats of shellac and set up in public places as a warning to others.
Alan Bradley
#5. Come all you thoughtless young men,
a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea.
Patrick O'Brian
#6. The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?
Mary Doria Russell
#7. If someone seems to have changed from one session to another, make sure you haven't changed instead. A warning from his mother, once upon a time, delivered as if she'd upended a box of spy-advice fortune cookies and chosen one at random.
Jeff VanderMeer
#8. I don't know. They could put up a warning sign or something. Hello. Welcome to Hindstrap. We will murder you in the night and eat your bloody face if you stay past sunset. Try the pies. Martna Maily makes them fresh daily.
Robert Jordan
#9. The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#10. The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#11. Reason tried to whisper a warning, but Libido drowned him out.
Catherine Mulvany
#12. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
Virginia Woolf
#13. Prince's words had not been meant as a warning. Rather, he had been playing. He had been pretending. He had been speaking for speaking's sake. Could there be a more despicable use for words?
Andre Alexis
#14. I have only one thing to say. I'm an aggressive extrovert. A warning is advisable. I hunt down people lurking in corners and shadows, and absolutely no one is safe
Dan Skinner
#15. This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's the scene where we have the eulogy and sermon that is given by the great John Cusack.
Spike Lee
#16. Some guys are alpha dogs, snarling and snapping. Dex is more like a silverback gorilla, quietly going about his business until something pisses him off and he gives a warning.
Kristen Callihan
#17. 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
#18. As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.
George Eliot
#19. I'm a lawyer. Pessimists see a glass half-empty; optimists see a glass half-full. Lawyers see a glass containing possible carcinogenic materials without a warning label. Skepticism is coded in our DNA.
Naima Simone
#20. You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.
Lee H. Hamilton
#22. The sun fades like the spreading
Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight
Might be read as a warning to those desperate
For easy solutions.
John Ashbery
#23. Why the hell didn't faerie food come with a warning written in bold letters: MADE IN LA LA LAND. EATING WILL OPEN YOU UP TO FAERIE ATTACKS.
Cherie Colyer
#24. Alone, he saw the slanting waves roll in,
Each to its impotent annihilation
In a long wash of foam, until the sound
Become for him a warning and a torture,
Like a malign reproof reiterating
In vain its cold and only sound of doom.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#25. I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
Carl Sagan
#26. Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
William E. Gladstone
#27. People who were raised on The Bible can never tell the difference between a warning and an advertisement.
George Hammond
#28. Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.
Tony Robbins
#29. Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth.
Warren Buffett
#30. From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself, you're never going to pick up a live coal again.
Richard Dawkins
#31. Consider this a warning. Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability.
Steven Erikson
#32. Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now."
"That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.
Cassandra Clare
#33. The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.
Phyllis Schlafly
#34. However, here's a warning you may want to heed about the American dream-read the fine print!
J.C. Phillips
#35. The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.
Lydia M. Child
#36. I really should come with a warning label.
Tom Upton
#37. To show the Holocaust in all its dimensions is to give a warning.
Zdzislaw Mach
#38. Don't," Michael said. It was soft, and it was a warning, through and through. "You try to hurt her again and I'll pull your arm off.
Rachel Caine
#39. Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.
Benilde Little
#40. Okay, you can be my slave.
My flying kick nicks his nose.
A warning. Worse if I weren't
succumbing to squeal.
What a feel.
I'm too multiple to feel.
A fork ahead.
I take both.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#41. A Bad Omen is a warning. A sign to stop and reconsider. Proceed with caution.
Kelley Armstrong
#42. So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a good example So do try, at least, to serve as a warning
John Walter Bratton
#43. Don't do anything stupid." Malachi growled out on a warning. "Define stupid.
A.B. Lee
#44. Know what they say about abominations," Caldenia said. "We make the worst enemies." "Was that a threat?"" Dagorkun's eyes narrowed. "A warning." Caldenia folded her hands on her lap. "There is only one time to make threats: when you intend to negotiate. I do not.
Ilona Andrews
#45. Tst! Joe! cried the coachman in a warning voice, looking down from his box.
Charles Dickens
#46. Of course Dexter always applauds the charitable spirit. But in general, I am so very much in favor of it because it is nearly always a warning sign that something nefarious, wicked, and playful is going on behind the Mother Teresa mask.
Jeff Lindsay
#47. 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.
George Muller
#48. Lauga had asked Margret whether she thought there would be an outward hint of the evil that drives a person to murder. Evidence oft he Devil: a herelip, a snaggletooth, a birthmark; some small outer defect. There must be a warning, some way of knowing, so that honest people could keep their guard.
Hannah Kent
#49. This also serves as a warning, that science may not yet be in its final form.
Steven Weinberg
#50. All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.
Emile M. Cioran
#51. The lesson of Left Behind is a warning to repent the sin of critical thinking, which the fundamentalist, eager for people to embrace the Gospel of irrational nonsense, equates with intellectual pride.
Robert M. Price
#52. The beauty is an illusion, and also a warning: there's a dark side to beauty, as with poisonous butterflies.
Margaret Atwood
#53. What did a Lord need with a courtesan and why marry one? The little voice in my head screamed a warning.
Rae Z. Ryans
#54. As he grinned, a dimple formed on his right cheek. My heart quivered. Men like him should come with a warning: date at your own risk
Jayde Scott
#55. It may be that your sole purpose in life is
simply to serve as a warning to others.
Chloe Traeger
Jill Shalvis
#56. His face fell, and I could see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong look which meant killing.
Bram Stoker
#57. An elderly black man with gray hair said, "Every bottle should come with a warning: 'This bottle may cause you to lose your job. This bottle may cause you to get a divorce. This bottle may cause you to become homeless.
Akhil Sharma
#58. Loss is a strange thing. It comes without a warning. It rips your heart to shreds and lets you learn to live with the pieces. It never lets you heal, but eventually, the memories you carry will help you learn to live with the pain of knowing that you will never see your loved one again.
J.C. Reed
#59. What about a warning system?" Heloise said.
"The entire encounter lasted less than five seconds, Hel. I doubt that even with your admirable ability to sprint in heels, you would have been able to get there in time.
Gina Damico
#60. The appearance of a pest should be regarded as a warning from Mother Earth to put our house in order.
Albert Howard
#61. Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.
Anne Rice
#63. I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.
Amandla Stenberg
#64. No matter what the price offered, no Downworlder would fail to listen to a warning against one of the nephilim.
Cassandra Clare
#65. The Gospel should never be dull, for it is the most exciting and relevant news we could ever receive. When we find it dull, it is a warning sign that something is going on inside us and we need to take action to correct it.
Billy Graham
#66. Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot ...
David Baldacci
#67. Everyone who says hello, will one day say goodbye; sometimes without a warning, or give a reason why ...
Donna M. Zadunajsky
#68. You say you were asking for a pencil. I say you were sending me a clear message, a warning even, that if I didn't tell everyone about us, you'd move on, with Sarah.
Anonymous
#69. Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'
Kate Beckinsale
#70. A warning to you both - choose to follow me or oppose me and I will kill you.
-Connor Kenway
Oliver Bowden
#71. Exactly as he spoke, Polly's hand went out to touch one of the rings. And immediately, without a flash or a noise or a warning of any sort, there was no Polly.
C.S. Lewis
#72. Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
James Buchan
#73. It must always remain the great curiosity of history - a whim, a fantasy, an apparition, a thing unexpected and undreamed; and it should serve as a warning to those rash political theorists of to-day who speak with certitude of social processes. Capitalism
Jack London
#74. Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It's a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.
Karin Slaughter
#75. If I take you," she said, and it was a warning, "I'll keep you. Always.
Nalini Singh
#76. Burning Woman is a powerful image. A role model. A metaphor. A warning. A source of power. She is Feminine power incarnate.
Lucy H. Pearce
#77. Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food.
Bobby Flay
#78. Don't need your warnings. I don't lose." "That wasn't a warning," he shot back, not taking his eyes off her. "That was a threat." And then he looked at me as he turned to leave. "Watch your back, brother.
Penelope Douglas
#79. Mullahs from the TNSM preached that the earthquake was a warning from God. They said it was caused by women's freedom and obscenity. If we did not mend our ways and introduce sharia or Islamic law, they shouted in their thundering voices, more severe punishment would come.
Malala Yousafzai
#80. It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.
Mahatma Gandhi
#81. We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.
Knute Nelson
#82. For a souvenir, for a warning, for a lick of night in the morning.
Max Porter
#83. See, I get a round, hollow spot in my belly knowing I could tell him what's coming, but also knowing it would come out sounding like a warning.
Jodi Picoult
#84. China's official State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television issued a warning and denunciation of time travel in 2011, concerned that such stories interfere with history - "casually
James Gleick
#85. Fulgoni gave me a look that I interpreted as a warning that I was crossing into a territory that he had deemed off-limits when we had last discussed his testimony. I gave him a look back that said too fucking bad. I have you under oath. I own you.
Michael Connelly
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy.
Witness Lee
#89. Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?"
"Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.
Terry Pratchett
#90. The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.
Bhagat Singh
#91. She slanted him a warning glance, but the corners of her mouth twitched.
Nancy Herkness
#92. Sir, I don't know if these are safe. There is a warning about toxic shock syndrome. These things can kill!" Keelan dropped the box he held and wiped his hands on his pants. The other men immediately dropped the boxes they had been holding.
Alanea Alder
#93. Ty rested his hand on Zane's chest again and closed his eyes. Zane turned his head with infinite care and kissed Ty's forehead.
Wesson gave him a warning growl.
"Mine," Zane told the cat.
Abigail Roux
#94. Dimples should come with a warning: Dangerous! Could knock your world off its axis, categorized as a weapon, proceed with caution.
Adriana Law
#95. Anger has two benefits: it provides a warning and the necessary energy for change.
David W. Earle
#96. The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.
Albert Einstein
#97. Pain is a warning," said Anaander Mianaai. "What would happen if you removed all discomfort from your life? No," Mianaai continued, ignoring Seivarden's obvious distress at her words, "I value that moral indignation. I encourage it.
Ann Leckie
#98. I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as some message from God, a warning of things to come, a perfect description of my mashed-potato character
Oscar Zeta Acosta
#99. The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.
Barry Commoner
#100. My scent's all over you. It's inside of you. That's how my people will know who your mate is. It's also a warning.
J.R. Ward
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