Quotes About Cautionary

#1. While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.

Octavia Butler

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Philip Plait

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

Kris Waldherr

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?

Julia Cameron

#11. People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.

Renata Adler

#12. The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.

David Levering Lewis

#14. Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

Kate Forsyth

#15. Cautionary Moral: Don't let your heart overrule your head.

Kris Waldherr

#16. 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

#17. The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#18. Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

Alfonso Cuaron

#19. I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

Robert Jordan

#20. From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales,

Jeffrey Kluger

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

Lisa Jakub

#25. It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.

Joel Coen

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

Walter Isaacson

#27. Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

Richard Paul Evans

#28. 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

#29. So it's tempting to read other people's lives as cautionary fables or repudiations of our own, to covet or denigrate them instead of seeing them for what they are: other people's lives, island universes, unknowable. Not

Tim Kreider

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

Jodi Picoult

#31. 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

#32. Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#33. 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

#34. Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

Tom Waits

#35. I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

Neko Case

#36. 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

#37. And this was something I would always wonder about - how the lines were drawn to define mental illness. When did a little depression become pathological? When did anxiety turn into something bigger, something greater and more cautionary about your own stability?

Kate Axelrod

#38. 'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

Anthony Bourdain

#39. I always get that cautionary warning right before I get off the phone with an interviewer. It's: 'Good luck with the show. I really like it, and if this goes wrong, you'll be hearing from my attorneys.

Jon Stewart

#40. 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

#41. It is always tempting to try to shut out the suffering that is an inescapable part of the human condition, but once it has broken through the cautionary barricades we have erected against it, we can never see the world in the same way again.

Karen Armstrong

#42. George Harrison's cautionary words are a constant companion - "In their bid to tell what they know, sometimes people tell more than what they know

Mark Lewisohn

#43. 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

#44. If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience.

John N. Gray

#45. Let us be as watchful after the victory as before the battle.

Andrew Bonar

#46. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Robert Frost

#47. Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.

Oakley Hall

#48. Remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Andrew Lang

#49. Be careful what you wish for. Especially out loud.

Nenia Campbell

#50. Snow is not a wolf in sheep's clothing - it is a tiger in lamb's clothing.

Matthias Zdarsky

#51. Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

Wilbur Smith

#52. No matter how long a log of wood remains in the river it does not become a crocodile

Jude Idada

#53. Yes, well, I'm not asking you to hide anything. Hiding won't help you. You can't very well hide from a pit, can you? You just need to avoid falling into it. - Brohan Madhrarigal

Gregory S. Close

#54. Proceed toward "success" with extreme caution.

Bryant McGill