Quotes About Wariness

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter.

The great hurrah about wild animals is that they exist at all, and the greater hurrah is the actual moment of seeing them. Because they have a nice dignity, and prefer to have nothing to do with me, even as the simple objects of my vision. They show me by their very wariness what a prize it is simply to open my eyes and behold.

He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.

That was on a Tuesday, and for the next two days the manuscript lay untouched on his desk. For reasons that he did not fully understand, he could not bring himself to open the folder, to begin the reading which a few months before would have been a duty of pleasure. He watched it warily, as if it were an enemy that was trying to entice him again into a war that he had renounced.

He had often watched her as she crossed the floor in her checkered apron, her face a dark mask behind which belligerence battled with humility. This was in her eyes which never for an instant lost their wariness and which were always ready, within a split second, to turn black and lightless with contempt.

You'll pardon me," he finally said, "if the suggestion that the minuscule black turnip you call a heart is suddenly overflowing with generosity toward me leaves me wanting to arm myself and put my back against a wall.

A milligram of caution is worth a double quintal of remorse, so let us step warily.

But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.

I only ask you one thing- don't trust nobody

and should be avoided.

I have long since learned, as a measure of elementary hygiene, to be on guard when anyone quotes Pascal.

to play everything close to the vest.

Owl Eyes and Sparrow Fur exchanged an excited glance. "Even kits?" Sparrow Fur asked. "Especially kits," Holly replied. "Suppose enemies attacked the camp? You would need to be able to defend yourselves. There's no time to lose.

I trust no one totally.

Right when I started touring, there was this wariness I had of the world outside of my small town. But I'm not that person anymore, and I was never completely that person.

Like everybody and trust no one.

Really? It seems too good to be true. I don't trust it. I don't trust anyone.

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano

Trust no one, I scold myself. Even if they smell good.

The rules were simple: trust no one, be ever watchful and if trouble came hit first and hit hard. It had worked for him so far.

When you go out the door, be as if you were seeing an enemy." And Shi Li said, "Be prepared, and you will not be defeated." When

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.