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Letter "W" » warning
«If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning.»
Author: Catherine Aird
| Keywords:
example, good example, horrible, serve, serve up, serve well, The Warning, warning, warnings
«Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
| About:
Beauty,
Death,
Life
| Keywords:
calm down, drank, ebbing, evening star, serenity, warning, whiten, whitened, whitens
«It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, ''They lived happily ever after'' and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.»
Author: Nora Ephron
| Keywords:
cautious, entering, era, Ever After, happily, Happily Ever After, quarter, sounding, warning, weekend
«History is a vast early warning system.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
early warning system, warning
«Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.»
«In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.»
«Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck»
«A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
benefit, Be Free, doses, dosing, drugs, in general, persists, plain, warning
«I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
consented, House of, House of Representatives, In the House, representatives, seat, thereby, the House of Representatives, warning
«Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
Distant Early Warning, early warning system, warning
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