Quotes About Alert

Danger takes from a man all power of thought

Be prepared. *smacks chest*

The trumpet's loud clangorExcites us to arms.

I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful o so sweet, so thrilling or so desperate... Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love thats essential. You are never so alive as when you love, never so alert, intuitive, attentive, never so smart or so compassionate.

Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing of all countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul.

Tell her next time to look where she's going.

It is, I am afraid, true that frequently various religious groups endeavor to exert pressures and control over different legislative and educational fields. It is the job of all of us to be alert for such infringement of our prerogatives and prevent any such attempts from being successful. Like all our freedoms, this freedom from religious-group pressure must be constantly defended. What seemed to me most deplorable

But I felt that things were taking a turn for the worse, and I was frightened. Having to stay alert in order to avoid mistakes and confront dangers had exhausted me to the point where sometimes simply the urgency of doing something made me think that I really had done it.

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.

Pain is important. It acts as a warning. It tells us that we are damaging ourselves in some way.

When you have over 500 million dollars in questionable contributions, shouldn't that start to alert people?

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

I need to get a tiny bit more 'woke.'

Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.

when we perceive danger, adrenaline shoots into us but because we can't kill a traffic warden or eat an estate agent, the juice never comes back down. We're in a constant state of red light alert, like a car siren that drives you nuts. Because

So peaceful, the streets; so tranquil, so orderly; yet underneath the deceptively placid surfaces, a tremor, like that near a high-voltage power line. We're stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we're always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.

Most of the time, that is what it feels like here, far away from the war, in the still heart of the tornado. So peaceful, the streets; so tranquil, so orderly; yet underneath the deceptively placid surfaces, a tremor, like that near a high-voltage power line. We're stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we're always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

Your Grace: Others come. Prepare for Invasion. —M.