Warning Quotes

“It is a terrible feeling to sense a threat coming. It is worse when the threat reveals itself to be real, especially when many of those you warned still dismiss it, and you do not know whether their reaction is rooted in apathy or doubt or fear. What is a warning, in the end, if not a confession--a declaration of what you value and what you will fight to protect? To warn of a threat and be dismissed is to have your own worth questioned, along with the worth of all you strive to keep safe. But there is a price to be paid in persuasiveness, too. I used to think that the worst feeling in the world would be to tell a terrible truth and have no one believe it. I have learned it is worse when that truth falls not on deaf ears but on receptive ones. It is one thing to listen, it is another to care--and yet another to act in time.”
― Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

“I believed he had no human weaknesses or faults, and that, therefore, he could make no mistakes and that he could do no wrong. There on a Holy World hilltop, I realized how very dangerous it is for people to hold any human being in such esteem, especially to consider anyone some sort of "divinely guided" and "protected" person.”
― Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

“Her voice cracks. 'It's hard when someone says they love you, but they need to contain and control the things that make you you'.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“I can admire the perfect murderer--I can also admire a tiger-- that splendid tawny-striped beast. But I will admire him from outside his cage. I will not go inside.
That is to say, not unless it is my duty to do so. For you see, Mr. Shaitana, the tiger might spring. . . .”
― Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table

“SECOND WARNING
If you came here expecting coherent plot or structure, you bought or stole the wrong book. Hopefully whoever edits this can clean it up a little bit. In reality, do you even care?”
― Mike Ma, Harassment Architecture

“Interdimensional travel is full of dangers that can be difficult to predict, but there are signs to watch out for. Owls are especially helpful for savvy explorers. In our own universe, they ask, “Who?” You can tell a parallel world is perilous when you hear an owl ask, “Why?”
― T.R. Darling

“But there is one thing that is infinite: greed. The ability of humans and demons to want. To desire. To hunger after things that don't belong to them.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“Beware of Dog,” the sign on the castle gate said.

The intruder, unworried, would later decide that Dog was an odd name for a dragon.”
― James Mark Miller

“Live with purpose, love with passion, laugh with caution.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Good intentions are not the whole story. You must also pay attention.”
― George Hammond

“Let me warn you again, in case your ghost ever tries to condemn me.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Lifemaker

“Some say that fame is a fleeting thing. Well, it has clung to me tenaciously, like gum stuck to the sidewalk, blackened from being stepped on a thousand times. I haven't been able to shake it, no matter what.

Some also say fame is shallow. That's easy to say when you haven't spent your childhood being passed from family to family, scorned and discarded because of a curse that made you break whatever you touched.

Fame is like a cheeseburger. It might not be the best or most healthy thing to have, but it will still fill you up. You don't really care how healthy something is when you've been without for so long. Like a cheeseburger, fame fills a need, and it tastes so good going down.

It isn't until years later that you realize what it has done to your heart.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

“The untuned mind receives no signal from the universe.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“When God sends a message of warning through dreams and visions, he is not sending them to instill fear in your heart. He wants to avert the evil that could have happened and soothe your heart with profound peace.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“You would not believe what the voice in my head tells me about you. Not who you are now, but who you’ve yet to become. That is why I am here. I am the trauma that will transform you into what you should be, but don’t have the courage to become on your own. I am the horror you are missing.”
― David Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

“WARNING
I preface this all with a reminder that none of what you're about to read reflects upon the author himself. The following is purely fiction.”
― Mike Ma, Harassment Architecture

“Full Attempt Warming Warning sign
Stay TF out my inbox Incoming envelope Open mailbox with raised flag
If this don’t have shit to do with
Booking me Calendar
Me making money Banknote with dollar sign
Investing in a project
Family emergency Police cars revolving light
Religion request ”
― Shaneika Marie

“Trying to get Dartmouth College to acknowledge the behavioral problems in all staff that I supervised got me a final warning of dismissal, when no previous warnings had been received.”
― Steven Magee

“If you attempt to escape, or if you defect to the Syndicate, know this as a certain fact: your friend will die. And be it on Mars, Luna, Earth, the Rim, or Venus itself, one night you will wake in the middle of the dark and find a shadow standing over you. If you are lucky, it will be me. If you are unlucky, it will be Sevro or my husband, and you will die shitting yourself in a foreign bed.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

“God warn people through many ways to deliver their souls from death.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Any warning means you are on the wrong way.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I have yet to begin my lesson, you wayward pupil. But, fear not, you will learn before sunrise.”
― Azaaa Davis, Hiss, Rattle and Bite

“You always carry a black tarot card with you to breakfast?" she asked.
"This is the first time."
"I bet. I gotta ask you though, why the Magician?"
"A friend gave it to me. Why? What do you know about it?"
"I know you got yourself involved with a black-back magician. That means everything is hidden, and backward. You could run into an animal that doesn't act like one. A magical animal like a rougarou. A werewolf that feasts on evil souls."
I put the card in my back pocket, horizontally, so it wouldn't fall out this time.
"Protect your soul, Eggs."
"I'm not evil," I said, already out the door and on the way to see Michael, who seemed more normal to me at that moment than the waitress at Johnny River's.
"We're all capable of it sometimes," she yelled behind me.”
― Margot Berwin, Scent of Darkness

“Withhold your trust from the critics, the scholars, the writers, the award-winners, the showrunners, because they will write about crime and decorate their art with crime, and it will bring you to tears, but identification of a burning building does not extinguish a fire. Knowing what is right doesn’t make us right. It makes us responsible.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Brethren, be mindful of the truth that the deliberate act of sinning, will eventually take us to the point of no return and that is the tragedy of all. Hardened and stiff-necked in sin, we grow cold to all rebuke and discipline. The gentle whisper of the LORD will be gone. The repeated grieving of the Spirit will result in the quenching of the Spirit. Therefore, any desire to seek the Father’s Home is lost! Beware!! Watch your steps!!!”
― Royal Raj S

“Apostle Paul while writing to the Corinthian church in the context of idolatry asks this rhetorical question, “Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?” (I Corinthians 10: 22, ESV). Israel experimented and found the answer. But by that time, they have already ruined their lives. Don’t we dare to follow Israel’s footsteps! Either learn the lesson here or else, the LORD will teach you.”
― Royal Raj S

“The same LORD who is the gentle Shepherd is also the LORD who is a brutal predator.”
― Royal Raj S

“How can a sane man go against the LORD? whose gentleness is described like this, “I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them” (Hosea 11: 4, ESV). Tragically, hard-hearted, close-eared, blind-eyed, dumb-mouthed, stiff-necked people are still there acting ‘smart,’ not knowing that their end is near.”
― Royal Raj S

“The LORD of Hosts isn’t a butler who is at your ‘on-call' service!”
― Royal Raj S

“What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.”
― Thomas Cramner