Quotes About Vigilance

When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

Cyclists need to obey the Highway Code, not run red lights, and not ride with iPods on, and motorists need to be more respectful and look out for cyclists.

In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

The difficulty of modern poetry does not stem from its complexity, but rather from the fact that, like mysticism or love, it demands total surrender—and an equally total vigilance.

Quédate siempre detrás del hombre que dispara y delante del hombre que está cagando. Así estás a salvo de las balas y de la mierda.

Be the hunter—not the hunted. Never be caught with your guard down. Use good judgment and act in the best interest of our nation.

Even as an adult, as I tried to sleep, my mind was conditioned to stay in a constant state of arousal, prepared for attack.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

cautiously, you avoid trouble. See all that you can – then, if you forget the perilous and

The naked man fear no pickpocket

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim. You promised not to do that, the boy said. What? You know what, Papa. He poured the hot water back into the pan and took the boy's cup and poured some of the cocoa into his own and then handed it back. I have to watch you all the time, the boy said.

He never sleeps. He says that he will never die.

Colonel. I'm here to kill people. And if I dont get to kill people I'm going to be a hard motherfucker to live with. And if you're not here to kill people you need to let me know. Because I dont want to work for you. And then he hung the phone up. And I knew that he was my kind of guy. He was a warmongering motherfucker.

Oh, ever once in a while I'll catch myself slippin into manual override. But I catch myself. I catch myself.

You think this is a trap, then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive." William Goldman, The Princess Bride

Stay calm, have courage, and watch for signs.

He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.

Whenever I feel myself sinking into a deep sleep, something always recalls me: "Not so fast now. Suppose you should go to sleep and it should happen. What then?" Clearly nothing. Yet there I lie, wakeful and watchful as a sentry, ears tuned to the slightest noise.

You are not in Disneyland," he said. "The little people you see running around over here are not Mouseketeers. Some of them are friendly, and some of them have a strong desire to kill you. If you remember that, and manage to kill them before they kill you, then you have a good chance of getting through your year of service here.