Cautionary Tale Quotes

#1. I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

Jodi Picoult

#2. Read (or listen to on CD) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand This book is a fictional cautionary tale of what would happen if the most ambitious, innovative thinkers were no longer rewarded for using their minds to help advance society.

Steve Siebold

#3. Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up destroying it.

Andrew Smith

#4. A cautionary tale I had carried with me from China, and which I firmly believed, was that anyone who attempted to have a foreign lover would be drugged and carted back to China in a jute sack.

Jung Chang

#5. The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He's a cautionary tale for me. But he's also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person.

Miguel Syjuco

#6. Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders, serves as something of a cautionary tale in terms of how heavy owner involvement can sink a franchise.

Don Yaeger

#7. Cautionary Tale: Blood is seldom thicker than blood.

Kris Waldherr

#8. If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest.

Philip Plait

#9. I suspected those people were seeking to make sense of the world by turning her into a cautionary tale, the lesson being, look both ways. And don't be such a bitch.

Stacey Kade

#10. As a writer, the ideal job is the one that allows you time and mental space away from it. Teaching seemed to me like the obvious choice - those summers off, you know - but my experience may serve as a cautionary tale.

Debra Dean

#11. Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma is more than a character; she gives us an insight into human nature. With Emma, we are diving into the complexities of Flaubert's psyche.

Sophie Barthes

#12. Robert Zubrin's masterful study ... makes for riveting reading. a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated from the mass of their fellow men, but come to see them as a barrier to imagined social, evolutionary, or environmental progress.

Steven W. Mosher

#13. After all, a man's life, when all is said and done, should serve some greater purpose than that of a hero in a cautionary tale.

Judd Trichter

#14. The witch hunt stands as a cobwebbed, crowd-sourced cautionary tale, a reminder that - as a minister at odds with the crisis noted - extreme right can blunder into extreme wrong.

Stacy Schiff

#15. Have you ever been tempted to start your own business- First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.

Phil Vischer

#16. It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.

Mark Ruffalo

#17. This excerpt includes both a cautionary tale of being caught en flagrante and a stirring defense of getting fucked.

Redeeming social value, indeed.

Simon Sheppard

#18. Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as a cautionary tale for lawmakers and presidents in future times of crisis. This is the historical Obama.

David K. Shipler

#19. A Swedish ambassador to the United States joked that nobody in America believes him when he says his country isn't socialist anymore. Liberals still refer to it as a role model, conservatives as a cautionary tale, but it is neither

Tim Kane

#20. Everything shows up in Divine time. We get what we need on the schedule of a force much larger than ourselves. This invisible force moves the pieces around in its own way, in its own time, to harmonize with the perfect precision that defines every cubic inch of space and time.

Wayne W. Dyer

#21. I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.

Kenneth H. Cooper

#22. In the last couple of years, fashion's gotten a lot safer. People are really pulling back.

Steven Cojocaru

#23. 'I think you ought to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or any city with character and vitality. You should go to work. This place is no good for you, Randy. The air is like soup and the people are like noodles. You're vegetating. I don't want a vegetable. I want a man.' - Lib McGovern

Pat Frank

#24. We lost the crickets," she said. "Even you can't make that sound tough."
... "I am Butler," he said with a straight-face. "Everything I say sounds tough. Now, get out of the lake, fairy.

Eoin Colfer

#25. I am here to tell you my father was right. You are a raging f..kwit. Now f..k off.

James Packer

#26. I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.

Joanne Froggatt

#27. Real artists ship.

Steve Jobs

#28. There're all kinds of magic in the world.

Alex Flinn

#29. Tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled

Walter Isaacson

#30. Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.

Philippe Petit