Warning Quotes
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If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?
Enele Sopoaga -
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Jonathan Swift
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You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.
Neelie Kroes -
I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.
Ned Kelly -
The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.
Bill Gates -
Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.
Michelle Paver -
Was it a threat, or a well-meant warning?
Carolyn Keene -
The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
Gertrude Atherton
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I couldn’t calm down. Was it possible that Mario should leave me like this, without warning? It seemed to me incredible that all of a sudden he had become uninterested in my life, like a plant watered for years that is abruptly allowed to die of drought. I couldn’t conceive that he had unilaterally decided that he no longer owed me any attention.
Elena Ferrante -
I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.
Steve Earle