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Quotes About Alert

Maruman does not loll.
~ Isobelle Carmody
This sense of concreteness that you perceived at the very first line bears in it also the sense of loss, the vertigo of dissolution, and you realize that you perceived this, too, alert Reader that you are, from the first page, when though pleased with the precision of this writing, you sensed that, to tell the truth, everything was slip through your fingers…
~ Italo Calvino
Pop-up error alerts are the tool of the lazy. If an error does occur, the microinteraction should do everything in its power to fix it first
~ Unknown
Those who avoid the sin of intellectual sloth could be called "engaged." They are more alert, more intellectually active, less willing to be satisfied with superficially attractive answers, more skeptical about their intuitions.
~ Daniel Kahneman
It is always good to be careful or vigilant.
~ Didier Deschamps
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
~ Horace
I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
~ Unknown
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
~ Unknown
walked erect out of my sleep
~ Lucille Clifton
People that are, you know, constantly alert to every injustice in society, every perceived slight, and who are just desperate to let you know when they've found one. They seek them out with all the urgency of truffling pigs.
~ John Boyne
Stop thinking about the time passed by. Every moment is a new beginning. Devote your time in making the coming moment beautiful. With your endeavor, coming moments may be the most valuable treasure of life, the only point is to remain alert and committed for every moment.
~ Unknown
It's ok to light the candles on your birthday cake now; I've already alerted the fire department.
~ Unknown
I was through with sleep. I didn't like what it brought me.
~ Unknown
The parson climbed the stairs wearily back to his room. In summer he was a different person, sprightly and alert, and people took him for a man a decade younger than his years; but in winter he sank as the skies darkened, and by December he was always tired. When he went to bed, he drowned in sleep; when he was wakened from it, dragged from the bleak depths, he was somehow always unrefreshed.
~ Diane Setterfield
Maybe it was the hip-sprung way she moved, high-assed and shiny, alert to surfaces, like a character in a B movie soaked in alimony and gin.
~ Don DeLillo
The worst stage was when one could tell she was still awake and almost alert, but she knew that nothing worked. Imprisoned. She was imprisoned. In a statue like the Sphinx. Looking out from the eyes. Her own mind, at that point, was as small and bewildered as a little fly. Behind great battlements.
~ Unknown
There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments.
~ John Irving
If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.
~ Thomas Jane
Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n.
~ John Milton
Cottage I sit, alertbehind the small windowof my mind and watchthe days pass,strangers,who have no reasonto look in.
~ John O'Donohue
of anything, so he called Davenport and told him what was going on.
~ John Sandford
That mini heart attack you have when you realize you tipped your chair back just a little too far.
~ John Steinbeck
Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
~ William Shakespeare