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Quotes About Vigilant

Marv's a guy you've got to be careful around. He doesn't mean any harm, but he causes plenty.
~ Frank Miller
Essentially a soldier, the Christian is always on the lookout.
~ Romano Guardini
Jesse said, "You know what we are, Tim? We're nighthawks. We're the ones who go out at night and guard everything so people can sleep in peace. We've got our eyes peeled; no one's going to slip anything past us.
~ Ron Hansen
That's how I am! eyes peeled, scientific! first things first! the big ones! the small ones!...if they're going to behead you...for example!...you don't take your eyes of the guillotine!...look, the blade's dull! -Executioner! you shout, hey, you lazy fucker! don't you have anyone sharpening that thing? And the executioner scurries off, shit-assed and sheepish!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Everything is a question of sleep, says Cocteau, but he forgets the shark, which does not. Anxiety is vigilant.
~ Lyn Hejinian
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
~ Doug Linder
I like life well enough to want to live it awake
~ Andre Gide
For some reason, blame is often directed toward me. I have to be vigilant.
~ Sarah Dessen
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.
~ John Cheever
If the heart is vigilant (Song 5.2), then sleep is nothing for the body; this is like a person who is almost snoring and, when he hears robbers breaking in, does everything possible to escape them. Thus, if we are able to understand, we shall see that we are exactly like this.
~ John Chryssavgis
A perfect image was like a gift of grace, but sin would always be swiftly punished. A sort of Calvinist dogma, where you never knew when you were right, but must be constantly vigilant against error.
~ John Crowley
Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
~ EGW Comments
Typically, HSPs are highly conscientious, loyal, vigilant about quality, good with details, intuitive visionaries, often gifted, thoughtful of the needs of clients or customers, and good influences on the social climate of the workplace. In short, they are ideal employees. Every organization needs some.
~ Elaine N. Aron
No my soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its clear eyes open, far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.
~ Antonio Machado
Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may—cost what it may—inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto—NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS
~ Frederick Douglass
And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Night hath a thousand eyes.
~ John Lyly
Paddy, acting as security, loitered
~ Ruth Hamilton
Do we play anymore, step away from tasks, duties, and habits with curiosity? Tread carefully: if you are not vigilant, this may lead to wonder, which is joy, which every fear in you knows will lead to job failure and lost revenue.
~ Anne Lamott
THE TALAMASCA We watch And we are always here.
~ Anne Rice
serious. She'd been frantic. Over his crib she had
~ Anne Tyler
never seem to miss anything.
~ Shelley Singer
Im not tense, just terribly, terribly alert. Nick
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You be really careful." – Sundown "Always. You have to be careful when you fly, or you end up smeared on the side of a building." – Ren
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon