Quotes About Vigilance

Buddy, you've been warned.

Be present, stay alert: the first rule of self-defense. But then I wouldn't be able to shut out the noise and stink and tension around me.

She was glad to be alone, to be free, to be high above the world, where she could see everything coming. She had people to protect.

She looked at the bag, slitty-eyed as a cat by a mouse hole.

What's a handshake after all, except a socially acceptable way to make sure the other guy doesn't have a knife behind his back

Nothing good happens on the road after midnight. There are too many bad drivers out there.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust." She

Gather information. Seek weakness. Watch, wait, and do what you have to to stay alive!

Peace is dangerous because it encourages complacency and carelessness

On the street, people are expected to fear and hate everyone but their own kind, but with all of us armed and watchful, people stared, but they let us alone. Our neighborhood is too small for us to play those kinds of games.

Of course they would come back, or others would come. That would happen no matter what. And Cory was right. The next thieves might not lose their guns and run away. So what? Should we lie in our beds and let them take all we had and hope they were content with stripping our gardens? How long does a thief stay content? And what's it like to starve?

Quando si tratta di estranei armati, penso che il sospetto ti aiuti a restare vivo più della fiducia.

When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.

When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.

A wise man sleeps with his eyes and keeps his ears awake.

Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero!

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

You can be on the right track and still get run over if you're not moving.

Like my father always said to me, if you ever pull a weapon on somebody – no matter what it is – you've got to be fully prepared to use it, because if you're not, the other guy will see the doubt in your eyes, and he'll take it off you and use it on you instead. Then you're really in trouble.

Be cautious and bold.

You live life wi' death on your heels. For your sake, lass, I promise to stay one step ahead.