Top 100 Quotes About Wary
#1. On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.
Robert Greene
#2. I'm wary of artistic directors who say, 'Here is my vision', because it's empirical. Basically it's about who you work with and what plays you put on; the vision comes out of that.
Richard Eyre
#3. Oh, wary, well, I'm wary of the water I drink, it might be poisoned," said Glinda. "That doesn't mean I stop drinking water.
Gregory Maguire
#4. It wasn't so much that I was in search of answers. In fact, I was wary of the whole idea of answers. I wanted to climb all the way inside of the questions and see what was there.
Dani Shapiro
#5. Success is far more perilous than failure, isn't it? You've got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.
Noel Coward
#6. I've always been very wary of debates involving women.
Tony Abbott
#7. I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.
Mylene Farmer
#8. EDUCATION TEACHES US HOW TO THINK, INTELLIGENCE HOW TO QUESTION, AND OUR MORALITY WHAT TO DO WITH WHAT WE KNOW. BE WARY THEN OF THE EDUCATED, INTELLIGENT, AND AMORAL PERSON, FOR THEY WILL KNOW ONLY THAT THEY CAN DO A THING, NOT WHETHER THEY SHOULD.
Mark T. Barnes
#9. Nations, like men, are wary of truth, for truth is too often not beautiful.
Addison Gayle Jr.
#10. Smoke poured from every chimney, for the day was cold. The thought of all those coal-grates and wood-stoves made me wary of fire, for these buildings were little more than tinder and brown paper, putting on airs of architecture.
Robert Charles Wilson
#11. A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.
Leila Janah
#12. Once again, that startled, wary look. "I'm treating you to coffee," he said. That
Neal Stephenson
#13. I have no idea,' he said, and that's another thing I'll put in my arsonist's guide: be wary of a man who says, 'I have no idea,' when asked why his wife doesn't like something he's done, which of course is just another way of saying be wary of men in general.
Brock Clarke
#14. As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
Seamus Heaney
#15. Tully/Ysolde: "Brom?" I asked, releasing his head. He reeled backwards for a moment, his eyes huge. "Are you all right?"
Brom: "I couldn't breathe," he said, giving my boobs a wary glance.
Katie MacAlister
#16. Wary of being caught unawares, we planned our parenthood, committed to trial marriages with pre-nuptials, and pre-arranged our parents' funerals - convinced we could pre-feel the feelings that we have heard attend new life, true love, and death.
Thomas Lynch
#17. Redheads are a variant that survived, a color minority, though not a skin color precisely, not a race, but still subject to identification by the wary eyes and wagging tongues of the majority.
Marion Roach
#18. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
Emily Dickinson
#19. I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.
J.B. Priestley
#20. Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn't real anymore, and that changes your perspective. It makes you more wary but also means you are better equipped to deal with challenges.
Hannah Ware
#21. Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.
Douglas Kennedy
#22. Think critically about what you are told. Do not accept the word of authority unthinkingly. Science is not a belief system: no belief system instructs you to question the system itself. Science does. (There are many scientists, however, who treat it as a belief system. Be wary of them.)
Terry Pratchett
#23. I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.
Peter Weir
#24. To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks tend to outperform during the back half of bull markets.
Kenneth Fisher
#25. I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I'm not scared of having a go.
Catherine Martin
#26. I had learned to be wary whenever a priest suggested that her personal aims were, in fact, God's will.
Ann Leckie
#27. I didn't know it was possible to conquer fear in your body before you did it in your mind. That was when I knew I should be wary of him.
Veronica Roth
#28. I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.
Joe Swanberg
#29. It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.
Clive James
#30. I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.
Jacques Audiard
#32. Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
William Hazlitt
#33. Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of insidious threat.
John Burnham Schwartz
#34. She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.
Lisa Kleypas
#35. I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have always been and will remain wary of it.
Dean Acheson
#36. That's my problem. I'm constantly wary. I can't trust anyone.
Valerie Martin
#37. Be wary of those who seek to steal your dream. Be even more wary of those who seek to tell you what your dream should be.
Ralph Marston
#38. The writer, and that was what I was becoming, must be wary of every Dream and every nation, even his own nation. Perhaps his own nation more than any other, precisely because it was his own.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#39. The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.
Paul Cezanne
#40. One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#41. There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is wary, watchful, and takes a longer time to separate from his parents and join the group. Neither one nor the other is smarter, better adjusted, or destined for a better life.
Ellen Galinsky
#42. Remember: The paranoid and wary are often the easiest to deceive. Win their trust in one area and you have a smoke screen that blinds their view in another, letting you creep up and level them with a devastating blow.
Robert Greene
#44. I'm very wary of news on television.
Val Kilmer
#45. Be wary of those with overpowering presence. It is usually a one-way street taking away your freedom of choice. Gravity is compelling particularly when it is a Black Hole.
R.N. Prasher
#46. He seemed placid to me on the platform, but something about that stillness makes me wary now.
Veronica Roth
#47. I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.
W. Earl Brown
#48. I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.
Pope Francis
#49. My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.
Emily Dickinson
#50. I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.
John D. MacDonald
#51. One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
Quentin Crisp
#52. If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.
Roy Bennett
#53. Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#54. I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'
Zooey Deschanel
#55. Life can make a person weary and wary, and the body and soul become fatigued. Unalleviated tedium extinguishes the light in the soul.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#56. Actors in the film industry are usually wary of expressing their opinions on the issues of the day, politics especially.
Anupam Kher
#57. A judgmental attitude helps neither ourselves nor others. Arguing or preaching rarely changes other people. Even if our opinions are justified, criticizing others usually makes them wary and defensive. And it takes our attention away from our own lives, which we can change.
Diane Dreher
#58. Duty is a concept created by emperors and generals to deceive us into performing their will. Be wary when duty speaks, for it often masks the voice of others.
Tan Twan Eng
#59. advertising 'Discount Sushi'. I can't imagine a better example of Things To Be Wary Of in the food department than bargain sushi. Yet the place had customers. I wonder, had the sign said 'Cheap Sushi' or 'Old Sushi', if they'd still have eaten there.
Anthony Bourdain
#60. Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.
Tariq Ramadan
#62. we really do acknowledge the validity of the categorical imperative and allow ourselves (while keeping a wary eye on it) only a few exceptions -
Anonymous
#63. Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
Ann Macbeth
#64. I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.
Bobby Moynihan
#65. Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
Ray Dalio
#66. Dogger had once warned me to be wary of any man who introduced himself as 'Mr.' It was an honorific, he said, a mark of respect to be bestowed by others, but never, ever, under any circumstances, upon oneself.
Alan Bradley
#67. Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.
John Lydon
#68. I knew exactly how he felt because I had walked in his shoes, wary and distrustful, unable to believe anybody could care about me without asking for something in return.
Ann Aguirre
#69. People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened 1 are right to be
Kurt Vonnegut
#70. Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.
Ian McEwan
#71. We must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.
Stephen Jay Gould
#72. I'm wary of the whole Los Angeles scene. I'm a California kid, but there's a difference between California and Los Angeles. L.A. is urban. California is restorative.
Jason Lewis
#73. Be wary when people tell you that they don't produce a lot, but when they do, it will be "brilliant." Remember that innovation is largely a function of productivity.
Robert I. Sutton
#74. I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years.
Neil Oliver
#75. Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
Elie Wiesel
#77. I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.
Stuart Symington
#78. Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.
Francois Lelord
#79. The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.
Keith Waterhouse
#80. Be wary of sharing dreams with men,
they will rob them;
be cautious of sharing them with God,
He may grant them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#81. -- I'm wary of all morning people. There is something unsettling about a person who likes to leave the comforts of a warm bed and soft pillow. Absolutely masochistic.
K.T. Mara
#82. I totally don't believe that things have to be expensive for beauty. In fact, I'm always a little bit wary if they are ... because I'm like, 'What kind of chemicals are in there? What's going to happen in ten years, when we find out what the side effects are?'
Liz Goldwyn
#83. I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.
Paul Newman
#84. Morning lost its healing powers when it arrived and found you already wide-eyed and wary.
Maggie Stiefvater
#85. Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt
Maya Angelou
#86. I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -
Emily Dickinson
#87. He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.
Dejan Stojanovic
#88. Crawford, ever wary of desire, knew how badly he wanted to be wise. He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can be to a youngster who believes him.
Thomas Harris
#89. Dimly
at first wary that it was merely a dislodged fragment of the dream
she remembered Resurgam. And then, slowly, events returned, not as a tidal wave, or even as as landslide, but as a slow, squelching slippage: a disembowelment of the past.
Alastair Reynolds
#90. I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#91. Not every man is what he seems, and a prince especially has good cause to be wary ... but go too far down that road, and the mistrust can poison you, make you sour and fearful.
George R R Martin
#92. Again. Was it better to trust or better to be wary? Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?
Hanya Yanagihara
#93. She used to admire people who stood out, but now she could feel herself wary of them.
Hugh Howey
#94. Beneath their wary smiles, the people were warm and friendly. They had known sorrow and loss, but their spirit survived.
Amanda Grange
#95. I can't allow myself to be wary of one place merely because it reminds me of another place where I almost died, because just about every place reminds me of another place ...
Dean Koontz
#96. The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except math.
Suzan Shown Harjo
#97. The entire population of Blackfin maintained a wary distance from her, as though the skeletons in their closets were spring-loaded and ready to burst out onto the front lawn.
Kat Ellis
#98. Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration's foreign policy: He was defense secretary for both a hawkish President George W. Bush and a wary President Obama. He understood Bush's desire to project power and Obama's skepticism.
David Ignatius
#99. Do not go by my humble beginnings. Be wary of my enormous vision.
Manoj Arora
#100. I think of kids. It makes me feel selfish, to be so wary of having a family. Never mind do I have a job or not. I'll have a job soon, a good one. That's not it. I'm in awe of raising, basically, someone so tiny and soft.
Don DeLillo
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