Warning Quotes
591 quotes by 492 authors
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In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a…
— George W. Bush
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have…
— Umberto Eco
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Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT.
— Dave Barry
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Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic.
— Bill Maher
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The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Come in the evening, or coming in the morning/Come when you're looked for, or come without warning/Kisses and welcomes you'll find here before you/And the…
— Thomas Davis
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Instead of an elegant warning, you need to bring a strong deal. That's the only way you'll gain what you want.
— Jay Park
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I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here are a few I would suggest: "Alcohol will…
— George Carlin
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The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are…
— Henry Tizard
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Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international…
— Abba Eban
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A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades.…
— Abbott Lawrence Lowell
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Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I promise you, if you will heed the voice of warning of the Holy Ghost and will follow His direction, you will be blessed with…
— L. Tom Perry
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The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others…
— Saadi
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The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are…
— Al Gore
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Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there…
— Steven Chu
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We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.
— Bill McKibben
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Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and…
— Anais Nin
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In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of…
— Jacquetta Hawkes
Who Wrote These Warning Quotes
492 authors contributed a total of 591 Warning Quotes, led by these top contributors: