Caution Quotes - Page 6

• Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Years, Needs, Violence

  Presidential press release after ETA's 2006 ceasefire declaration, September 2006.

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• And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.

  Khalil Gibran

  Fall, Feet, Judgement

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sides, Found, Suspicious

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• Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors.

  Pal Benko

  Mistake, Errors, Feelings

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• When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.

  Aristotle

  Errors, Views, Law

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.63, Aristotle

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• belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

  Vera Brittain

  Children, Parent, Age

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• A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Silence, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.350

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• Innovative people have always been in high demand. Help those around you to develop that “never-say-die” attitude by developing it yourself. Make a decision, today, to outlaw complaining, whining and negative thinking in your own personality. And, a word of caution: if and when you are criticized for being so positive or as some call it, “unrealistic,” you will know you are on the right track.

  Bob Proctor

  Attitude, Thinking, Ifs And

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 07, 2011

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• Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
  
  Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

  Max Ehrmann

  Being Yourself, Exercise, Cynical

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.9, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Envy, Causes, Chance

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.116

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• Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small.

  Laura Huxley

  Clothes, Ties, Shoes

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• I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution.

  Neil Gaiman

  Evil, Triumph, Action

  "The Books of Magic (Book IV: The Road to Nowhere)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

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• Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution?

  Bill Joy

  Technology, Technological Development, Asking

  "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" by Bill Joy, www.wired.com. April 1, 2000.

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• Surprise is the enemy of prudence.

  Goliarda Sapienza

  Enemy, Surprise, Prudence

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• I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.

  Sue Grafton

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• You have no idea how crazy I am, I should be wearing yellow Caution tape, I'm that bonkers.

  Robin Benway

  Crazy, Ideas, Yellow

  Robin Benway (2010). “The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June”, p.79, Penguin

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• My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. Im drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

  Karen Traviss

  Book, Objectivity, Facts

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• So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints?

  Laurence Sterne

  Cutting, Weapons, Scandal

  Laurence Sterne (1810). “The Beauties of Sterne: Containing All His Pathetic Tales, His Humorous Descriptions, His Most Distinguished Observations on Life, and a Copious Selection from His Sermons ...”, p.241

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• And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Loyalty, Military, Reality

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• United will break caution to the wind

  Glenn Hoddle

  Wind, Break, United

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• Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Worry, Anxiety, Doe

  Jacqueline Winspear (2012). “Elegy for Eddie”, p.246, Allison & Busby

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• Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to an end, because he had to deal with the power of the anti-war movement as well as the power of the Vietnamese movement. I will vote, but always with a caution that voting is not crucial, and organizing is the important thing.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Evil, Voting

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Lying, Thinking, Issues

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• I'm not one of those people who think you should go grey and that there is some virtue in looking wrinkly if you don't feel like it. If you do, great. If you don't, just my only caution is watch out. There are a huge number of wrinkle creams that do nothing for you.

  Nora Ephron

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Numbers

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• When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

  Horace

  Becoming, Wealth, You Again

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