Quotes About Wariness

Estar asomado a esta ventana, en cierto modo, es como estar en una trinchera y asomar la cabeza, esperando que aparezca el enemigo. Aquí, sin embargo, no hay enemigos. Ni amigos ni enemigos, sólo silencio y soledad.

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes,"—"I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

I always have doubts. I am weary of people.

There's nothing really to talk about with the police. I mean, for what?

When you have success, be extra wary. When you are angry, take no action. When you are fearful, know you are going to exaggerate the dangers you face. War demands the utmost in realism, seeing things as they are. The more you can limit or compensate for your emotional responses, the closer you will come to this ideal.

can't help but see the wariness, the effort, the impatience. I can't help but see two people together out of a sense of genetic duty, doomed already to bewilder and disappoint each other, each honor-bound to defy the other.

I can't help but see the wariness, the effort, the impatience. I can't help but see two people together out of a sense of genetic duty, doomed already to bewilder and disappoint each other, each honor-bound to defy the other.

Evie," Grayson murmured. "We need to be careful." Evie?

I don't trust any of you.

VERN DID NOT TRUST HUMANS WAS

Do not trust the Afghans. Do not trust your friends. Do not trust anyone except your enemies.

Another reason she was wary around him was that he was simply too bloody damned clever. Frantically

I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

My default state is wariness.

None of us offered to shake hands. There was no advantage to letting somebody get hold of you.

If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

Caution until you're sure, and then a little more caution.

be hostile unless you must, Moiraine had said, but above all never be overly friendly. Never be eager

Pussyfooting is a vice I have been concerned to avoid.

Suspicion is healthy. It'll keep you alive.

Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

True relaxation was a state of being that had been virtually unknown to him since childhood. The best that could be said of it was that when he felt relatively safe, he entered a condition of lenient wariness.

Nick's hesitation was only the twitch of wariness he felt at any prospect of happiness.

If I'd never found any other reason to advocate pacifism, this would be it; it is so much easier on the nerves not to perpetually be circling your fellow man, hand warily on the hilt of your knife.