Quotes About Vigilance

Nunca serás capaz de pensar mal de los que quieres. Sospecha de todos y nunca seas descuidado.

Generally when a man in uniform has something unusual brought to his attention, his instinct is to stop it.

I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

Sleeping at night is not a specialty of entrepreneurs. The entrepreneur who is sleeping soundly, something bad is happening to that person; they just don't know it's happening yet.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating "fuckface" into Nipponese, but it might translate into "emotional intensity" in football lingo.

The padlocks are carried away in pomp and laid out on the stone bench where important men make it their business to keep an eye on them.

The constant dangers of sudden electrocution from above or drowning in liquid shit below keep him looking up and down as well as side-to-side.

A great warrior must always search for the enemy's intentions and guard his own.

Detective Ramos confided in me, 'If something happens to you on my watch my ass is O-U-T.' 'How do you think I'd feel? D-E-A-D.

The trooper said to her, "You he careful, now.

The world doesn't try to screw you; the world is indifferent to you. But people try to screw you, and people need to know when they've picked the wrong guy to screw. And that's me.

Better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.

Tolkien said, 'It doesn't do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations if you live near him.

Before all else, be armed.

Francisco Sforza tuvo siempre por adversario a los Bracceschi, y se vigilaron mutuamente; al fin, Francisco volvió sus miras hacia la Lombardía, y Braccio hacia la Iglesia y el reino de Nápoles.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

I have to watch my moves very carefully because if there are people to support you, there are also those who would like nothing more than to see you fall.