Quotes About Vigilance

Mrs. Norris

As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Hanging out with Sam or any two-year-old is basically one big suicide watch. Their mission is to find one new way after another of offing themselves - piss in an electric socket, lick a pit bull's nose, chase an ice cream truck into traffic - and your job as a parent is to step in before it happens.

Sometimes at first light, while we were 'standing to', sections of our Machine Gun Platoon would open up on their fixed lines of defensive fire; this had a prophylactic effect to deter an enemy. It was often unkindly said, in jest, that the machine gunners were heating up their shaving water or maybe it was for their early morning tea. In any event, their shafts of short bursts of staccato firing were powerfully reassuring.

After lots of lectures, warnings, punishments and so on, Eddy had decided to watch his step for a while.

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

Când nu e?ti sigur, ocole?te.

Always look for sparrows before you look for canaries.

recognize the enemy, who doesn't just fight on the battlefield

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

as we age, (1) we take on more responsibilities, so we have a greater cognitive burden, (2) we become more vigilant about threats (especially as parents) and more sensitive to errors in youth ('kids these days!'), (3) while at the same time we lose the capacity to process information as quickly as we did when we were younger, and (4) we tend to attribute these changes in ourselves to changes in the external world.

because they reminded them of the unpleasant fact that they lived in a dangerous world with wolves in it. And that they could only go about their lives safely under the watchful eyes and guns of the sheepdogs.

The truth is, life as a soldier involves long stretches of boredom punctuated by sudden bursts of activity.

One reason you get groggy, long-distance driving, is that you don't move your face.

we instinctively zero in on dangers that are unusual or immediate, while paying much less attention to hazards that unfold more slowly or in a more familiar way.

Qui regle à sa guise les code at leur circulation dans l'espace peut laisser reposer les veilleurs.

Renn is helemaal alleen en dat... dat wezen kan wel overal zijn.' 'Dat kan me niet schelen.' 'Jawel, dat kan je wel schelen. Als Renn iets zou overkomen, zou je het jezelf nooit vergeven.

Psalms 141:3: Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.

Forewarned forearmed.

Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

Jefferson's uncomfortable dictum "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" applies outside the fields of politics as well; it means that we must constantly reevaluate what we do, lest habits and past wisdom blind us to new possibilities.

NEVER Allow Women to go on any appointment alone. NO EXCEPTIONS. This includes the luxury neighborhoods and not just the normal and low-income neighborhoods.

I learned that if someone tells you to be on the safe side lots of times then after a while they do not need to say it. After a while you just say it to yourself in your head like, 'I had better not do that, just to be on the safe side.

To struggle against one's own flaws requires constant vigilance, but when you struggle against other people's flaws, you have to move more carefully and slowly.