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Quotes About Watch

Guards, Miles now realized, had to stay in prison all day long too. Indeed, as a guard, one of his jobs was now to keep himself in.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean o astonish you all some day.
~ Louisa May Alcott
My little girl, I would face a dozen storms far worse than this to keep your soul as stainless as snow; for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity, unless we watch and pray, and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Don' mean to have any. It's fun to watch other people philander, but I should feel like a fool doing it myself, Said Jo, looking alarmed at the thought.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Self-starter, eh?" he heard the presumptuous pilot say. "I know how to operate that. What's this little mirror for? Oh, yes, to index the curves. Pshaw! I can't go wrong if I watch that." "Can't you? Oh, my!" muttered Dave.
~ Roy Rockwood
What of the hunting, hunter bold? Brother, the watch was long and cold. What of the quarry ye went to kill? Brother, he crops in the jungle still. Where is the power that made your pride? Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side. Where is the haste that ye hurry by? Brother, I go to my lair to die!
~ Rudyard Kipling
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools...
~ Rudyard Kipling
Dreams are like doors. They're like portals to another reality, and once they're open, you better watch out.
~ Ruth Ozeki
The X-Games - I watch that; I'm not impressed. That's white dudes' desperation. They're running out of sports. They gotta find something that black dudes won't touch.
~ Godfrey
Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's like escapees from the Nordstrom cosmetics counter.
~ Kathleen Hanna
I would have drowned without you to watch over me...I now understand there are a thousand ways to drown, and a thousand ways to rescue someone.
~ Alice Hoffman
Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend, or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of is had needed it.
~ Alice Sebold
You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.' He smirked and pointed to himself. 'Spy.' 'Oh.' I nodded. 'Right. So you're a trained Peeping Tom.' 'Product of the best peeping academies in the country.' 'Well, now I feel much better.' 'You should.
~ Ally Carter
Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.
~ Frances Sargent Osgood
I've got a different perception now and it's really enjoyable to be at this point in your life and be able to watch this.
~ Nolan Ryan
Then is not Death at watchWithin those secret waters?What wants he but to catchEarth's heedless sons and daughters?
~ Edmund Blunden
Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.
~ Edmund Burke
The fasts are done; the Aves said; The moon has filled her horn And in the solemn night I watch Before the Easter morn. So pure, so still the starry heaven, So hushed the brooding air, I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings If one should earthward fare.
~ Edna Dean Proctor
Must-see TV.
~ Anonymous
And Laban said, This heap [of stones] is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
~ Anonymous
Could ye not watch with me one hour?Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
~ Anonymous
Observe the opportunity.
~ Anonymous