Quotes About Vigilance

How was one to foresee and guard against everything?

Atención -decía Bobby Thompson-. Éste es uno de los lobos que camina entre ustedes.

If you think someone is seriously on the prod for your ass, it keeps you awake.

I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfires. They break out unless you work actively to prevent them.

Team, aren't we? That means we trust each other, no matter what. Watch each other's back. Keep an eye out for trouble.

I must be continually alert to the mask, as one is to handling complicated machinery.

Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid; but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.

It kept Mom on high alert and I worried sometimes that their marriage had become the sort Inspector Javert might have had with Jean Valjean.

slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

Beware the anger of a patient man.

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]

A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.

Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps.

It's true that the man stealer is always lurking around the corner it's just our job and your duty to make sure they back up!

Maura whirled towards Blue. "Blue, if you ever see that man again, you just walk the other way." "No," Calla corrected. "Kick him in the nuts. Then run the other way.

Mind the dead man, my dear.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.