#warned

We are the women men warned us about. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#men #us #warned #women

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis. ↗

— Maria Monk

#cruel #doubts #entertain #express #francis

The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does. ↗

— Bernard Beckett

#you-ve-been-warned #media

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#foresee #impossible #larger #never #person

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#lives #lose #ought #people #their

And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so. ↗

— Lindy Boggs

#connotation #dallas #dangerous #devoted #following

We are the people our parents warned us about. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#our #parents #people #us #warned

Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once. ↗

— Cameron van der Burgh

#career #disqualified #i #never #once

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times! ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#carried #door #furiously #grease #had

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#ate #because #dangerous #drops #eating