Quotes About Vigilance

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

We should always deal cautiously with fire, water, women, foolish people, serpents, and members of a royal family; for they may, when the occasion presents itself, at once bring about our death.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

Never run upstairs when someone's chasing you. Don't try to quick-draw a man who already has his gun out. Never light a match in the dark in a strange building. Half of staying safe is just keeping your head and being prudent.

When you're used to being in dangerous situations, you develop a sixth sense about your surroundings, about where possible enemies might be lurking, how many steps it will take to reach the next corner on a dead run, the best hiding places if bullets start to fly...

sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.

Before you see the monkey, the monkey has seen you.

That's the problem with peace. Peace make you careless.

I am placing Mistress Chandler in your care. Lose her or take your eyes off her for one second and I'll peel the skin off your arse with my teeth.

And mind you keep a sharp eye on this child's back. If you let so much as a hair on her head fall into harm, I'll pluck you like a chicken and spit you stem to stern." "Don't worry, Old Witch. If anything happens to Blue Eyes, there will not be much left of me after McBride is finished.

El atisbo de reojo delata sin excepción al alumno que alberga alguna intención de copiarse. Los preceptores debían alcanzar esa misma destreza para obtener un sigilo igualmente implacable. No para "mirar sin ver", que es como la frase hecha define al distraído, sino al contrario, para ver sin mirar, para poder verlo todo sin que parezca estar mirando nada.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. —Thomas Jefferson

Humans can miss a lot of little clues, but me being able to fire energy weapons from my arms would be something of a red flag.

all singing "caution" in chorus

Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

A man could love a woman but she would never be his be-all and end-all, though a clever man might let her think she was, of course. But nature would always out. The mother of the main children must be taken care of at all costs and a man had to know that any children he was bringing up were his own. No cuckoos in the fucking nest to grow and betray you at some point. You had to be careful.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Sometimes it's the smallest and most innocent things you have to watch out for

It's much more efficient to prevent problems than clean them up.

Prepare your hearts, for we must not only be ready for the enemy without, but also the enemy within.

Prepare your hearts, For we must not only be ready for the enemy without, but also the enemy within. —Song of Jezelia