Quotes About Watchfulness

Turks say, 'water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.

Well, for heaven's sake, don't leave her unattended. You never know what she might do," she snapped and promptly appeared in the doorway.

First rule of bodyguard detail: know where your 'body' is at all times.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty

As Shan floated in the chilly water, he shivered, suddenly aware of the rich, mysterious ambience of the glade, its deep-breathing watchfulness.

I believe in humility...Also, I believe in pride, knowing well that the deadliest of the seven deadly sins is named as pride. I believe in a pride that prays ever for an awareness of that borderline where, unless watchful of yourself, you cross over into arrogance, into vanity, into mirror gazing, into misuse and violation of the sacred portions of your personality.

But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing us, nonetheless.

Again, I checked my rear.

Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting.

Not the criticism of individual contemporaries will decide the truth or falsity of these discoveries, but future generations. There are things that are not yet true today, perhaps we dare not find them true, but tomorrow they may be. So every man whose fate it is to go his individual way must proceed with hopefulness and watchfulness, ever conscious of his loneliness and its dangers.

but as they say, you always have to watch out for the quiet ones. I take a quick shower. I run into the kitchen and grab a couple of sticks of the string cheese our son loves to eat. I take these

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

if you need to be continuously on the watch, doesn't that cause fatigue?

Remain sober and remember to watch out).

which requires day-to-day monitoring.

These people are the ones to watch out for

So be careful when you bend over.

He didn't speak. He was simply there, like the river and the late-summer sun. And yet by his presence, his mute watchfulness, he made it real. He was the true audience. He was a witness, like God, or like the gods, who look on in absolute silence as we live our lives, as we make our choices or fail to make them.

The price of liberty is labor as well as vigilance.

Ride with them, eat with them, fight with them, for as long as it takes. And watch.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!

Although it does not mindfully keep guard, In the small mountain fields the scarecrow does not stand in vain.

The sphinx will always have to be looked after.