Quotes About Vigilance

If you're not nervous, you're not paying attention.

Save your family. Feed your belly. Pay attention, and be skeptical of the people in charge.

Beware of subjects who are nobodies, Of whose plotting one is not aware. Trust not a brother, know not a friend. Make no intimates, it is worthless. When you lie down, guard your heart yourself.

First of all, I'm not even tired.

Even when called out By a single foe, Remain on guard, For you are always surrounded By a host of enemies

There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.

Me gusta caminar. Me gusta esta hora en que han salido las estrellas, los niños duermen y los centinelas están demasiado cansados como para vigilar atentamente. Es una hora de esperanzas. Todos necesitamos esperanzas.

The mother of all the skills is to learn the art of paying attention—Remembering every step you make or anything that's around you.

A nice girl should never go anywhere without a loaded gun and a big knife." ~ Sarah Agnes Prine

Every noise, whether inside or out, had me opening my eyes wide to search out any possible danger until exhaustion finally claimed me and I slept.

The most careful thing you do is hitting a mosquito on your testis.

She listens at doors and around corners. She has always had this habit. A child in danger must learn to pay more attention to the adults than a child loved and cherished.

Now they will know," shouts one woman into Tunde's camera, "that they are the ones who should not walk out of their houses alone at night. They are the ones who should be afraid.

Already there are parents telling their boys not to go out alone, not to stray too far.

A prince should suspect everything.

An army ought to be ready every moment to offer all the resistance of which it is capable.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

When you have a chest of jewels, you don't walk around it. You plant yourself on the lid with a weapon in your hand.

You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.

Seen too many dumb bikers who end up in the hospital

Tanto la ley como la filosofía plantean la pregunta: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (¿Quién vigila a los vigilantes?).

You must be conscious of being healthy if you are to know what health is. You must be conscious of being secure if you are to know what security is.

Within that blankness we call sleep there is a consciousness in unsleeping vigilance, and while the body sleeps this unsleeping being releases from the treasure house of eternity the subconscious assumptions of man.

You can't trust anybody with power.