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Quotes About Alert

Our ears evolved to be our warning systems. We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching.
~ Jenny Offill
But this is what servant-hood within the fellowship of believers is all about: being alert to the little things that need to be done and then doing them.
~ Jerry Bridges
If you have timed the movement correctly, your first commitment will show you a profit at the start. From then on, all that is required of you is to be alert, watching for the appearance of the danger signal to tell you to step aside and convert paper profits into real money.
~ Jesse Livermore
If you're on a plane and the person in front of you starts slowly tilting to one side, it means he's letting out a fart. Take cover!
~ Jessica Zafra
The "symptom" theory goes as follows: An affair simply alerts us to a preexisting condition, either a troubled relationship or a troubled person.
~ Esther Perel
Finally, the nonimmune rubella status should alert the practitioner to immunize for rubella during the postpartum time (since the rubella vaccine is live attenuated and is contraindicated during pregnancy).
~ Eugene Toy
It would also let him now if they had alerted the marine patrol.
~ Andrew Mayne
If his iPhone rings, he could be fucked. We
~ Andy McNab
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
~ St. Jerome
Now, what happens whenever there's a loud sound is that it startles us, right? And we arrest what we're doing, and we try to localize that sound because that sound could be a threat. That's something that's hard-wired in our bodies.
~ Peter A. Levine
Sometimes overwork and travel take a toll on my health but I am alert and take precautions; I have learnt to deal with it. I take rest whenever I have time.
~ Rohini Hattangadi
I can't protect myself when I'm not facing the play.
~ Neymar
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
~ Navjot Singh Sidhu
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Mercaptan. They add it to natural gas so you can smell it if you have a leak in the house.
~ Robert Dugoni
When life looks like easy street there is danger at your door
~ Robert Hunter
Keep your voice down!' I warned. 'The house is asleep.' 'Come quick,' he repeated, though in a lower tone. 'And bring gun.' 'Why?
~ Robert Masello
Can't say that I like this all that much," Toussaint said, his rifle raised now and at the ready. "Feels like a trap to me.
~ Robert Masello
The difficulty with von Falkenhayn's original concept was that since the city had to be defended, the French had made it defensible. Once the Germans had lost the advantage of surprise and failed to take Verdun in the first few days, the French were fully alert to the threat and responded to it with increasing force, more weaponry, and not a little skill.
~ Robin Neillands
I warned him many times. I warned him in words, in deed and in every possible way.
~ Ron Chernow
You threatening me now?" "More like the weather report. A public service. Like a tornado warning. Prepare to take cover.
~ Lee Child
Or the Russians could have had some kind of tripwire in place. Something to alert them if anyone was close to finding whatever they wanted to keep hidden. They're not reckless. They'd know that one document sitting unnoticed amongst how many—thousands? millions?—in a dusty old archive would attract less attention than a fire.
~ Lee Child
They're looking for nervous or furtive behavior.
~ Lee Child
He went up the metal stairs as quietly as he could, reducing the likely clang to a duller pulsing boom, by placing his feet very carefully. He found 214 and knocked on its door, firmly but discreetly, like he imagined a bellboy would, in a fine hotel.
~ Lee Child