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Quotes About Vigilance

America needs to be secure at home and abroad.
~ Rick Larsen
I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.
~ Mitch McConnell
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
~ Horace
"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."
~ Stephen King
When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.
~ George W. Bush
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
~ George W. Bush
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
~ A.A. Milne
I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.
~ Robert B. Parker, Small Vices
There's a saying, " Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia
Paranoid means you are aware of 10% of the problem
~ Oran Kangas
Seriously, I 've got to know if I need to protect you from people running with pencils." ~ Laney
~ Joann I. Martin Sowles, Laney
I mean it, " I said. "You're in danger.""Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.
~ Jim Butcher, Grave Peril
The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.
~ Anthony Comstock
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
~ Douglas MacArthur
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
~ Patrick Henry
It is better to live ready than to get ready!
~ Smith Wigglesworth
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.
~ George Raveling
You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.
~ Lord Buckley
One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.
~ Trevor Howard
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
~ John Green
When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.
~ Drew Barrymore
You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.
~ Janette Rallison
We still and always want waking.
~ Annie Dillard
There is one potential problem with automation: that it will be accompanied by complacency and ignorance.
~ Richard de Crespigny, QF32