Quotes About Caution

So let sleeping wyverns lie.

we avoided their swarms by putting one foot in front of another without pause and making noises of our own. We didn't step on anybody who squashed.

Washington must have seen that Hamilton, for all his brains and daring, sometimes lacked judgment and had to be supervised carefully.

having warned the children not to mention the nose

He was also wary of upsetting the existing social hierarchy.

Having twice been sued by people for offering incorrect market advice, he refrained from offering stock tips.

who warned Roosevelt not to antagonize the Morgan interests without any proof of major wrongdoing.

Having never dealt with Frank, Slaght naively trusted him.

For legal reasons, everyone was cautioned not to exchange thoughts on paper.)

Rockefeller was similarly suspicious of any boasting or ostentation among associates.

Washington was taciturn, once advising his adopted grandson, "It is best to be silent, for there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

Undeterred by these extreme gyrations, both Rockefeller and Andrews wanted to borrow heavily and expand, while Clark favored a more circumspect approach.

Rockefeller trained himself to reveal as little as possible, even in private letters, which he wrote as if they might someday fall into the hands of a prosecuting attorney.

What I fear is that he may perhaps talk too much which would be very undesirable

I warned him many times. I warned him in words, in deed and in every possible way.

The Department is wary of fanatics. [They] don't bend; they break.

We're like schoolchildren playing with matches. One day we'll burn the house down.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

Never revive a guy who had just pulled a gun on you.

You don't let an armed man ride behind you unless you know him.

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.

She moved silently over the thick corridor carpet. The hinge side of the door was closest, and the knob side farthest. She ducked under the peephole's field of view and flattened against the wall beyond the door. She reached out and tried the knob backhand. Long training. Always safer. Guns can shoot through doors. She

Never count on anything except surprise and unpredictability and danger. Ring doorbells with your knuckles or elbows to avoid leaving fingerprints.