Quotes About Alert

You wake up at SeaTac. I study the people on the laminated airline seat card. A woman floats in the ocean, her brown hair spread out behind her, her seat cushion clutched to her chest. The eyes are wide open, but the woman doesn't smile or frown. In another picture, people calm as Hindu cows reach up from their seats toward oxygen masks sprung out of the ceiling. This must be an emergency. Oh.

It's a trap!

Hey, man! Hey, hold up a minute! Like many New Yorkers, he had a crackhead alert system and turned, steeling himself.

Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So, let us be alert-alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

beware of ideas...

Al cuarto!" they cried. Al cuarto! On deck! On deck!

Drake ended on a note of caution. He needed firepower as soon as possible.

The author is sounding the alarm that humanity is under invasion.

Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, the footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.

Danger never takes a vacation.

Hear ye, intruders! Beware of guard dreams.

I'm not spacing out. I'm just living in the moment.

The master principles of expectations management are the following: Get buy-in Take care of business Communicate the big picture Listen and be alert Take the stakeholders' perspective Never assume

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

Excerpt from Alert copyright © James Patterson, 2015

Be careful. That light at the end of the tunnel could be an oncoming train." —Isaiah

And I pulled the alarm.

Their blissfully soft texture calmed me but alerted me at the same time. I couldn't explain the gentle spark of light that dripped off the edges. And of course, the aqua trim felt way too familiar.

WATCH out for your surroundings, UPGRADE your mindset and keep FOCUS.

The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

The radio crackled alive with a Mayday.

You aint ready for that.