Quotes About Vigilance

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If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.

Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed police officers become strangely commonplace after awhile.

I encourage everyone operating a motor vehicle to be cognizant and aware of motorcyclists while they are on our highways.

I'd like to make it very clear that getting bitten by a venomous snake is dumb, clumsy and nothing to be proud of.

lived my adolescence like a sheepdog moving through a flock of dirty, very stupid sheep.

It was a quick drive on a Saturday morning, and we pulled into the short circular driveway in front of the hotel only fifteen minutes later. Once again I got out and pantomimed eternal vigilance, looking all around for any sign of a lurking Patrick. I

No, a recreational side trip was not the answer, not in this climate of frenzied, hostile police vigilance. I had to find my Witness, and until then just resign myself to being paranoid, grumpy, unhappy, and unfulfilled. But

The greatest single threat to an investigator is unfamiliarity with his environment.

One said, "Nobody paused in front of the house since we've been here." I slipped my ID case away. "Any out-of-state tags?" "Didn't notice any." Different answer from "No." One

How long could we remain true to the girls? How long could we keep their memory pure? As it was, we didn't know them any longer, and their new habits—of opening a window, for instance, to throw out a wadded paper towel—made us wonder if we had ever really known them, or if our vigilance had been only the fingerprinting of phantoms.

Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched

my heartbeat woke me with its thudding cry of look look look.

The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time.

I always watch the work I do.

If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.

Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one's nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!

Always live in active consciousness

Living in active consciousness is being in the "here and now

You must always be proactive

Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.