Quotes About Vigilance

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.

Be careful when you choose the people you can trust. Some of them are lions in an sheep's skin.

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm.

In life, be careful in each of your actions and use your efforts, and time carefully.

Bir kayal???n tepesindeki bir ?ahin gibi harekete haz?r oldu?umu hissediyordum. Pençelerim hala kayay? tutuyordu ama zihnim havalanm??t?.

Ve con cuidado —me instó. —Lo haré.

When I say "hope", I don't mean hope for anything in particular. I guess I just mean it's worth it to keep one's eyes open.

The trick is never to let down your guard. Never think you are safe. Never take for granted that your children's hearts beat, that they sup milk, that they draw breath, that they walk and speak and smile and argue and play. Never for a moment forget they may be gone, snatched from you, in the blink of an eye, borne away from you like thistledown.

What is given may be taken away, at any time. Cruelty and devastation wait for you around corners, inside coffers, behind doors: they can leap out at you at any moment, like a thief or brigand. The trick is never to let down your guard. Never think you are safe. Never take for granted that your children's hearts beat, that they sup milk, that they draw breath, that they walk and speak and smile

My wife, I should tell you, is crazy. Not in a requiring-medication-and-wards-and-men-in-white-coats sense— although I sometimes wonder if there may have been times in her past—but in a subtle, more socially acceptable, less ostentatious way. She doesn't think like other people. She believes that to pull a gun on someone lurking, in all likelihood entirely innocently, at our perimeter fence is not only permissible but indeed the right thing to do.

Not to believe in evil is not to be armed against it.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Guards, meanwhile, had to resist the

Awareness is the key to self-defense.

Radar, then, is the first step in making people decide that it's not worth it to mess with you.

defence' might simply mean the duty of manning the walls in the event of an attack.

Gabriel, to thee thy course by lot hath given Charge and strict watch that to this happy place No evil thing approach or enter in.

It's only good sense to go looking for trouble, because then at least you have your eyes open; while if you stay still, trouble will sneak up on you and pot you like a sitting bird.

Never believe governments,' she wrote, 'not any of them, not a word they say; keep an untrusting eye on all they do.

but you can't ever be sure about a white man, and if you've got one that believes in virgin births, risin' from the dead, and God punishin' two nekkid people for wantn an education, you need to watch his ass ever' minute of the day.

Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it.

Though wickedly aware of his surroundings, he didn't look around; looking around attracted the eye. People who saw him would ask themselves, "Why's that guy looking around like that?" He'd learned not to do it.

Is your security going after the threat? Or is the security static?" Lucas asked.

MICHAELA BOWDEN was a tall woman, thin, ramrod-straight, brown hair with copper highlights, attractive in a front-office way. She was talking to a small group of fawning locals, called a couple of them by name. Lucas picked out a half-dozen security people, four men, two women, within twenty feet of her. Every one of them eye-clicked Lucas, maybe smelling a guy with a gun, though he wasn't wearing one. When they saw Clay pulling him along, they looked elsewhere.