Quotes About Watchfulness

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!

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For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.

Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near. – Luke 21:28

presence. No

Do right. It's what Ling's mother would say. But in times like these, how could you know what was right? Ling sat on the steps for a while longer, watching Alma's champagne-colored dress swish down the street. Only when Alma rounded the corner did Ling let out the chocking sob. Good-bye, she whispered. Nearby, the bird watched her intently.

Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus...

quit custodiet custodes - ¿quién montará la guardia a nuestros guardianes?

People with something to hide wore sunglasses indoors. They were the ones you had to watch very carefully.

A man with keen preservation

Foi que Titão Passos, pensando mais, me disse: — "Tudo temos de ter cautela...

Unless the Lord keepeth the city, the watchman guardeth in vain

I've been under security protection since 1978.

Not to me. Not when I'm looking after you

We need to be diligent in our neighborhoods, in America to keep an eye out for wherever there might be some kind of a terrorist cell that is festering that could potentially blow up.

Somebody comin', he said softly. Five or six, maybe. His words were spoken over an empty fire, for each of us vanished ghostlike into the surrounding darkness. I, fortunately, had the presence of mind to retain my coffee. With the Ferguson rifle in my right hand, I drank coffee from the cup in my left.

When a man has enemies he had best beware, and

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide--sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself. I lived in a state of siege, always losing just what I wanted to hold on to[...] It was being a watcher that did it. A watcher, not a keeper.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

Precaution is better than cure.

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.

and he thinks of Argus Panoptes, the watchman of Hera, who had eyeballs all over his head and even on the tips of his fingers, so many eyes that when he closed fifty of them to sleep he held fifty more open to keep watch.