Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.
Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch hour. You want time free from phone calls, visitors, mail, things to read. Unplug the phone if you have to. Lock your door. Put a sign on it that warns people of the consequences of entering. Do what you have to and watch the results. One hour of uninterrupted time can double a person's productivity for the day.
Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution.
God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.
The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, were we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him.
The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you. ' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.
A few streets away a grave-looking Saddam warns: Don't double-park, you could cause chaos!. . . I'm concerned for your life.
All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc. , that's kind of how humans are.
Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.
God warns before he wounds.
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
The writer is the visionary of his people. . . He anticipates, he warns.
In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science. )
He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.