Quotes About Vigilance

bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.

Rather quickly, Officer Gorman had proved he was the sort of man who – as Leaphorn's grandmother would have said – counted the grass and didn't see the grazing.

Reynie rarely watched television, he knew the Emergency

A person needs a great deal of energy to stay awake all the time, and thus a great deal of food.

You have to watch them all the time,' she assured me darkly. 'Even if the spirit's willing, the flesh is weak!

Be strong, be vigilant, strike first. And trust nobody.

Rule #1: Protect Your Scavenger.

Mountain was being watched by too many

Wake me if anything exciting happens," Glory said. "But make sure it's actually exciting, not Sunny-exciting.

Well, Sunny was watching Webs. As usual, Starflight was watching Sunny.

By scaring the daylights out of anyone who tries to mug you?

The lookout that first sights the cat shall have ten guineas and remission of sins, short of mutiny, sodomy, or damaging the paintwork.

Can I Inadvertently Blow Things Up? You bet. One of the easiest ways to do so is to fail to follow good reloading habits.

When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.

In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments.

Attention! Attention! Attention! Thou art aware of the situation!

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

and the other patrolman had called for

Did you see those airport security people? I think you could drive a tank past them, as long as it didn't contain any liquids.

I will reach upward. I will attempt to do better. I will not be a burden upon those who have helped me too much already. I will always be grateful for what pleasures I have enjoyed, what joys I have yet to experience. I will take opportunities as they come, but at the same time, I will not trust so easily. I will look at who is at the door before opening it. I will try to be fierce. I will argue when necessary. I will be willing to fight.

had a way of looking one over without seeming to that any Secret Service agent would be proud of

The guard thought about this for a few moments. "When they first brought him here we did the standard strip search, no orifice overlooked.