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Quotes About Vigilance

I trust no one, not even myself.
~ Joseph Stalin
Never trust someone easily. You'll never know, they may be allies of your greatest enemy.
~ Unknown
Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.
~ Unknown
While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
~ Oscar Wilde
Looking around your house for places to hide in case a murder ever breaks in to your house...
~ Unknown
Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.
~ Francis Quarles
For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Complacency kills. Paranoia is the reason I'm still alive.
~ Unknown
Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.
~ Frederick The Great
Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.
~ Walter Raleigh
Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.
~ Earl Warren
I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
~ Pat Conroy
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.
~ Paulo Coelho
There are no shadows in the Underdark. There is no room for imagination in the Underdark. It is a place for alertness, but not aliveness, a place with no room for hopes and dreams.
~ Unknown
Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
~ Lara Giddings
Not to be negative, but I think the biggest lesson is don't trust anyone.
~ Jeff Baena
I'm locked in no matter what I'm doing. If it's a competition, I'm locked in.
~ Patrick Beverley
We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.
~ Paul Michael Glaser
She'd learned from Rey that snakes often traveled in pairs, so she was careful to look before she stepped
~ Diana Palmer
The assault, it seemed, was relentless. Tongue in cheek, he writes, "Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side." The
~ Diana Pavlac Glyer
as zookeepers, the Zabinskis understood both vigilance and predators; in a swamp of vipers, one planned every footstep. Shaped by the gravity of wartime, it wasn't always clear who or what could be considered outside or inside, loyal or turncoat, predator or prey.
~ Diane Ackerman
Inevitably, fear raided everyone's mood. But as zookeepers, the Zabínskis understood both vigilance and predators; in a swamp of vipers, one planned every footstep. Shaped by the gravity of wartime, it wasn't always clear who or what could be considered outside or inside, loyal or turncoat, predator or prey.
~ Diane Ackerman
Muzzle control has to be a religion. You cannot point that weapon at one of your brothers-or yourself. Know where you barrel is at all times, and know the condition of your weapon-loaded or unloaded, bolt forward or to the rear, round in the chamber or not, safety on or off. Keep your finger off the trigger unless you're going to kill something.
~ Dick Couch