Top 100 Quotes About Wary
#1. A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance
Richard Dawkins
#2. I am wary of sequels. I understand them from the studio's point of view, but the audience doesn't want more, they want better, and I thought the second 'Ghostbusters' was not very effective, it did not really work, so there's no reason to believe a third would. I'm more interested in new things.
Rick Moranis
#3. A plague rides on the air here. The smell of rot! This is Doal's realm. Can't you feel it? The keep is doomed, don't you see? No, I will not pass through this gate. There is a disease in there I will not touch.
Kaoru Kurimoto
#4. We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.
Tim Heidecker
#7. I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
Omar Sharif
#8. If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.
John Holt
#9. Her eyes are different. Wary, guarded, tinged with that human emotion I despise the most: regret.
Karen Marie Moning
#10. Be wary of the praise of men; don't let it pump you up unnecessarily and don't let it paralyze your progress
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#11. Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.
Paul Weyrich
#12. You're used of taking care to people."
The edge in his voice attracts my attention, and I glance up at him.
"What is it?" I ask, startled by his wary expression.
"I want to take care of you." His luminous eyes glow with some unnamed emotion.
E.L. James
#13. He is also wary of people who think they know the path.
Paulo Coelho
#14. I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.
Bill Keller
#15. I was sick of strife, and weary of being wary.
Robin Hobb
#16. Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.
Mercedes Lackey
#17. I will have you without armor. Those were the words she'd said to Kaz aboard the Ferolind, desperate for some sign that he might open himself to her, that they could be more than two wary creatures united by their distrust of the world.
Leigh Bardugo
#18. I allowed an uncertain smile to cross my face, though it did so with a little reluctance, wary of being run down by some more powerful expression.
Ian Barker
#19. How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I'm very happy for people to look at my story and say it's possible to achieve many things.
Daniel Tammet
#20. Be brave, gladiatrix, he said, And be wary. Bright things beget treachery. Beautiful things breed envy. Once you win Caesar's love, you'll earn his enemies' hate.
Lesley Livingston
#21. When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.
Steve Erickson
#22. Mystery, why so attractive to me?
You blind me with fear, place hope on my tongue, and with a cold kiss draw me forward. Wary and trembling, I follow.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#23. And as the wary dogs skirt past, we nod, grimace, and resume our paths to separate destinies and graves.
Peter Matthiessen
#24. I guessed it was a migratory bird, too innocent to be wary of the spiders in the jungle grass. It worried be to think that we were a little like that bird
Paul Theroux
#25. Be wary of a self-professed "nice guy". Anyone who is always going around saying they are "just trying to be nice" are most often, anything but nice. -If you're truly kind and loving, you don't have to "try". It comes naturally.
Miya Yamanouchi
#26. I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
Candice Bergen
#27. Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
Terry Pratchett
#28. You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there forever.
Earl Sweatshirt
#29. The discomfort I felt under that moral pressure has stayed with me all my life and made me eternally wary of the blindness of ideological certainty.
Robyn Davidson
#30. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.
Katharine Graham
#31. Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these bestial men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.
Maria McCann
#32. Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.
Laozi
#33. I had not learned anything about Huntley that would
have alerted me to what he was. I had no reason, as an 11-year-old girl, to be wary of him. No one said, 'This guy likes to have sex with young girls.
Stephen Richards
#34. The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.
Frank Muir
#37. An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.
James Vila Blake
#38. People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.
Mark Thomas
#39. Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.
Gayle Lynds
#40. I had no reason to feel wary of Huntley.There were no warning signs or anything like that. Little did I know there were allegations against Huntley going back as far as August 1995 ...
Stephen Richards
#41. Berkeley should be a haven for everyone, yet we should be wary of predators and thugs who drain our energy and take advantage of the institutions we've helped to create and sustain.
Aaron Cometbus
#42. No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.
H.L. Mencken
#43. On the pro-vaccine side - and not everyone does this, but I saw it enough for it to make me really uncomfortable - is a tendency to accuse people who are wary of vaccination of being stupid and not understanding science.
Eula Biss
#44. Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual ... but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.
Edward R. Murrow
#45. I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.
Rupert Murdoch
#46. People are inherently wary and fearful. What is a person more afraid of, the paucity of their dreams or the satanic magnitude of their nightmares? Poetic inventions containing elements of truth comprise all of our nighttime dreams and ephemeral daydreams.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#47. Many eyes are watching you, and many hearts are wary of your presence
Steve Augarde
#48. You know Twilight?" He blinks. "Excuse me?" "Twilight. The vampire book." His wary eyes study my face. "What about it?" "Okay, so you know how Bella's blood is extra special? Like how it gives Edward a raging boner every time he's around her?
Elle Kennedy
#49. Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum.
Nicholas Kristof
#50. I'm always wary of beautiful women who carry knives." The chief laughed. "The wise words of someone who has experienced the wrath of one such lady and has a story I would like to hear." "I promise when this is over, the story is all yours." So long as I wasn't dead first.
Steve McHugh
#51. Even if I had $200 million, I'm very wary of overusing CGI. I think it's a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.
Rian Johnson
#52. Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.
Nancy Gibbs
#53. Sebastian had strong features, almost noble when he was out cold. It was when he was conscious that you had to be wary.
Lisa Kessler
#54. The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.
Philip Yancey
#55. Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
Elizabeth Bowen
#56. As much automatic, Abnegation-bred sympathy as I have for the people living in this place, I am also afraid of them. If they are like the factionless, then they are surely desperate like the factionless, and I am wary of desperate people.
Veronica Roth
#57. The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.
David Halberstam
#58. I will thank you to stay out of my affairs. Or need I remind you that it is not Stanhope whom I'e had to be wary of on balconies recently?
Sarah MacLean
#59. I can't imagine a better example of Things To Be Wary Of in the food department than bargain sushi.
Anthony Bourdain
#60. If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.
Frank Dobson
#61. And so your personality is shaped. You know too much, and this knowledge makes you wary. You grow fearful and mistrustful. The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel.
Christina Baker Kline
#62. Forgive me if I am wary of your goodwill, Your Grace.
Sarah MacLean
#63. Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.
Frank Zappa
#64. And remember, small thaws make great floods, so be twice wary of a slowly changing season.
Patrick Rothfuss
#65. Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.
Evan Davis
#66. An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.
George Saville
#67. There's a man in that office who wants to speak with both of you. He's wearing a very expensive suit and it's been my experience that men in uniform should be extremely wary of men in suits.
Marc Cameron
#68. When, on your dangerous mission gone,
You underrate our foes as dunces,
Be wary, not of sudden gun,
But of your partner at the dances.
Stanley Kunitz
#69. I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
Sam Riley
#70. I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.
Hugh Laurie
#71. I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.
Troy Garity
#72. be wary
of the boys who
only ever tell
half-thruths
because they
will only ever be
half in love
with you
-slay those dragons
Amanda Lovelace
#73. Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Thomas Haynes Bayly
#74. I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.
Tana French
#75. Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.
D.H. Lawrence
#76. In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few
the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
Thomas Harris
#77. Be wary of listening to stories secondhand.
Tim Allen
#78. People always say to be careful not to confuse sex and love, but I think they should be more wary of confusing love and understanding.
M.E. Thomas
#79. But a man who has lived by truth - and you have believed in what he has lived - he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. I think that is why I'm nearly out of my mind.
Harper Lee
#80. There is not now, nor I suspect will there ever be, a le Carre novel with ninjas in it. Most serious novelists are wary of including ninjas in their writing. That's a shame, because many much-admired works of modern fiction could benefit from a few.
Nick Harkaway
#81. Another reason she was wary around him was that he was simply too bloody damned clever. Frantically
Amanda Quick
#82. Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector ... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein
#84. We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
Douglas Hurd
#85. Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings, taking no detail or person for granted.
Richelle Mead
#86. She was like a wounded animal, he thought, looking at her. Fear and pain were in every line of her - in the taut stillness of her form and in her watchful, wary stare. She wanted to be alone, to lick her wounds, and though she'd been that way all along, he couldn't let her stay that way.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#87. Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
Richard Eyre
#88. Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.
Joyce Rachelle
#89. The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.
Ernest Istook
#90. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own.
Noel Coward
#91. Ministers should be very wary that they do not bring forth fuel to feed the fears and doubts of weak Christians in their preaching and writing, for it is a great part of their work to arm weak Christians against their fears and weaknesses.
Don Kistler
#92. Until you learn better, you think that a landscaped world can't hurt you or please you, you needn't bother about its soul, you needn't be wary of its good looks.
Until you learn better.
Joanna Russ
#93. Merlin's beard, Harry, you made me jump," said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. "How did you get out of the castle?"
"I think Filch must've forgotten to lock the doors," said Harry cheerfully, and was delighted to see Slughorn scowl.
J.K. Rowling
#94. Listen carefully to what I am saying - and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes. NEVER WITHOUT A STORY
Eugene H. Peterson
#95. Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.
Jack Kirby
#96. When you have success, be extra wary. When you are angry, take no action. When you are fearful, know you are going to exaggerate the dangers you face.
Robert Greene
#97. Kvothe, Defend yourself well at the University. Make me proud. Remember your father's song. Be wary of folly. Your friend, Abenthy.
Patrick Rothfuss
#98. Polyamorous people are wary of having others' values inflicted upon themselves, and so tend to stay very far away from making such pronouncements, to the point that they will actively ignore predatory behavior that is affecting their own community.
Anthony D. Ravenscroft
#99. I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.
Noel Gallagher
#100. I appreciated everything you gave me." He picked up the can of olives and sniffed at them, wary of being tricked again. "Although I didn't deserve any of it.
Marissa Meyer
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