Quotes About Vigilant

When he stopped pacing, his shadow loomed behind him, watching. Someone was always watching.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of the status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

Rahel, on the other hand, was wide awake, fiercely vigilant and brittle with exhaustion from her battle against Real Life.

Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown responses; for instance, it is learning to address each other's difference with respect.

I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father.

I know the subtlest movements of the city because I no longer sleep.

Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.

She must remain vigilant not only against overt threats—and a fifteen-foot-tall Tzimisce war ghoul was not entirely out of the realm of possibility here, she reminded herself ruefully—but especially against the more subtle dangers: impatience, indulgence, indiscretion. These three deadly sisters would kill as surely, if not as swiftly, as any fiend.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

If they are awake while everyone else was sleeping, what on earth were they doing?

I never worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!

A panther is quick and smart and always alert to everything. He's sitting on top of a mountain, with the sun and the clouds. That's where I want to see myself.

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

Greer's eyes darted back and forth on the road, always vigilant for bears. Or any other mammal that might wander onto the asphalt. She'd only been on the road for ten miles and already she'd spotted enough roadkill to fill a zoo.

And then the stars stepped forth and help up their appointed fires- that hot, hard watchman of the night.

But it seemed clever and careful was exactly what drew the attention of God's Eye.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

The wise and ancient parts of you, seriously concerned with your survival, are neither easy to deceive nor to set aside.

There was that about her which indicated she was warily watchful.

Stay frosty, everyone

From the highest branch he watches and waits. The horned owl keeps secrets.

We're keeping our ears alert for any sudden thumps in undusted corners.

Captain Midnight is always careful." "It's not just Captain Midnight I'm worried about it. It's his alter ego." "And who might that be?" "My Love Muffin." Myron grinned into the receiver. "Hey, Jess, did you know Joan Collins was on Batman?" "Of course," Jessica said. "She played the Siren." "Oh yeah? Well, who did Liberace play?

While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.