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• Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.

  Abba Eban

  War, Doubt, Cairo

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• He remembered Simon warning him, with wryness, that Clary had the nuclear bomb of boyfriends.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nuclear, Bombs, Remembered

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.

  E. Lockhart

  People, Enough, Don't Like Me

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.112, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you’re going.

  Zadie Smith

  Lying, Writing, Bridges

  "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays". Book by Zadie Smith, 2009.

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• 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.

  John Adams

  Children, Fate, Giving

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.616

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• Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.

  Rachel Caine

  Generations, Horror, Shane

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood: The Morganville Vampires”, p.125, Penguin

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• What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Strong, Law

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Spiritual, Addiction, Way

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• We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more wrecks if it were not for the divine storm-signals which give to the watchful a timely warning. The Bible should be our Mentor, our Monitor, our Memento Mori, our Remembrancer, and the Keeper of our Conscience.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Christian, Blessing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Containing an Original Exposition of the Book of Psalms, a Collection of Illustrative Extracts from the Whole Range of Literature, a Series of Homiletical Hints Upon Almost Every Verse, and Lists of Writers Upon Each Psalm. Ps. 1-26. I”, p.309

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• Sunrise doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It's not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away.

  George Harrison

  Morning, Love Is, Sunrise

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• After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are a trait and not an error.

  Janet Fitch

  Girl, Mistake, Fire

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted it, his warning snarl and bristling mane were anything but playful. That he allowed the master these liberties was no reason that he should be a common dog, loving here and loving there, everybody's property for a romp and good time. He loved with single heart and refused to cheapen himself or his love.

  Jack London

  Dog, Heart, White

  Jack London (2016). “White Fang”, p.115, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.

  David Baldacci

  Attention, Waste, Next

  David Baldacci (2011). “Wish You Well”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But don't chew, don't swallow. If you do, you risk abandoning the good work that inspired the compliment in the first place. If that happens, maybe it was the compliment and not the job well done that you were aiming for all along.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Jobs, Risk, Done

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• X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!” XI. I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill’s side. XII. And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.

  John Keats

  Kings, Warrior, Lakes

  "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" l. 37 (1820)

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• Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, "In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid.

  Holly Black

  Voice

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

  Barbara Mertz

  Mother, Pain, Doors

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• Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Tired, Heart

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• Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?" "Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blood, People, Cold

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• It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. There was no telling what made these moments different from any other, though he knew them when they came. He had seen sights more gruesome and more beautiful by far, and been left with no more than a fleeting muddle of their memory. But these-- the still moments, as he called them to himself-- they came with no warning, to print a random image of the most common things inside his brain, indelible.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Beautiful, Memories, Heart

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• Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.

  Jim Butcher

  Jobs, Fear, Positive Thinking

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.227, Penguin

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• I'd blurted out the question only to keep him from noticing that I was working my hands free, but the Warden behind me, some young brown-haired surfer dude, yelled a warning. "She's getting loose!" Narc.

  Rachel Caine

  Hands, Surfer, Brown

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Thin Air”, p.194, Allison & Busby

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• Graves: It’s going to snow. Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning. Graves: Hey, no problem. First one’s free.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Snow, Hey, Firsts

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• Don’t worry. I won’t send you off without warning. Just stand there and be awed by my beauty. It’s the safest mode around me. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Worry, Savitar

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.181, Macmillan

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• As for the age of electronics, Selena, I really don't want to get personal with something that comes with a warning label and batteries. (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Grace, Age, Batteries

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.5, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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