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Quotes About Vigilance

BOLO was shorthand for "Be On the Look Out" for.
~ Mary Higgins Clark
Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast" went the old saying. In night patrolling, stealth was everything.
~ Unknown
for those that would be kept from any sin must be careful to avoid all temptations to it, and every thing that looks towards it or leads to it.
~ Matthew Henry
Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.
~ Maureen Murdock
His eyes flashed. "Don't be. I meant what I said about setting this muthafucka ablaze if anyone hurts my mama." Lexi gasped. "Q!
~ Unknown
If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.
~ Max Brooks
Dear Fatherland, no danger thine:Firm stands thy watch along the Rhine.
~ Unknown
In this life," she said, crossing these glorious gams, shimmering in the filmy light, "you can't let your guard down. If you can control yourself, you can control everyone else.
~ Megan Abbott
You can't let your guard down. If you can control yourself, you can control everyone else.
~ Megan Abbott
While conservatives like to put the focus for health on individual responsibility and "lifestyle," a term they use as a weapon, Geronimus's research reminds us of the social, interconnected nature of our bodies and our health, and the way that racism exacts debilitating vigilance from Black bodies.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
He who observes the infinite horizons will see the dangers before others.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You should be like those who at all times watch and wait for their Lord' (Luke 12:36). Truly, such vigilant people are alert and on the watch for their Lord for whom they wait; they look to see if he is not by chance concealed in what befalls them, however strange it may be to them.
~ Meister Eckhart
Does any Watcher ever know that he is suddenly watching the Slayer until that moment is announced to him?
~ Unknown
Having boys around camp is hard. You have to be on the alert. Boys, for example, like exposing themselves. They walk back from the shower blocks with their towels around them, and the next minute either someone flashes at you, or one of his friends grabs his towel off him and makes a run for it. I have to say it's a bit traumatic at times, not knowing when the next penis will appear.
~ Melina Marchetta
Better overly cautious than overly dead,
~ Unknown
I'm no ambulance chaser. I always get there before the ambulance arrives.
~ Unknown
The best problem-finders demonstrate intellectual curiosity, embrace systemic thinking, and exhibit a healthy dose of paranoia.
~ Unknown
Keep your distance, men. Don't be fooled into believing that our enemies are helpless. These 'girls', as they call themselves are a crafty bunch. I've see inside the thing they call a 'purse'. It is filled with all kinds of toxic sprays and pointy things they wouldn't hesitate unleashed on us
~ Michael Buckley
Ladies, we're going on a stakeout.
~ Michael Buckley
Trust, but be careful in whom.
~ Unknown
Remember: You don't want to be meeting your neighbours for the first time in the middle of the night when your house is burning
~ Unknown
The sentries might not be the most alert, but they might have marked a skulking, five-shoe tall grasshopper.
~ Michael Flynn