#warn

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave. ↗

— Washington Irving

#death #grave #hour #ocean #time

...once I admitted the arguments of necessity and force majeure put forward by the less eminent, I couldn’t reject those of the eminent. To which they retorted that the surest way of playing the game of the red robes was to leave to them the monopoly of the death penalty. My reply to this was that if you gave in once, there was no reason for not continuing to give in. It seems to me that history has borne me out; today there’s a sort of competition who will kill the most. They’re all mad over murder and they couldn’t stop killing men even if they wanted to. ↗

— Albert Camus

#warning #death

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain—and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#england #harry-potter #jk-rowling #rain #rome

Take heed little children lest what you hold dear. Be taken way from you with not the shedding of tear. ↗

— Michael J. Compton

#warnings #inspirational

Don't set the alarm clock if you're not ready to wake up. i.e. Never make somebody fall for you if later on you'll just ignore them. ↗

— Hannah Mae Bencio

#love #lovers #lovers-quarrels #reality-check #relationships

If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#envy #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #life-and-living #people

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#warning #inspirational

Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself. ↗

— Benilde Little

#inspirational #orginality #self-awareness #warning #inspirational

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. ↗

— William Bernbach

#against #believing #i #science #warn

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism. ↗

— Greg Bear

#been #before #costly #deadly #even