Quotes About Vigilance

You can either plan to be eternally vigilant and ready, eschewing life as we know it, or be willing to enjoy life and pay the price.

You should be more careful." "I'm considering that. I've heard good things about that lifestyle.

But you're curious, too," she said. "Why do you say that?" "You guard the light. And light sees everything.

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn't.

But to become an adult, one must step into the field of honor. Everything will be expected of you now. You will need to be vigilant in your principles. Sacrifices will be demanded. You will be judged. If you make mistakes, you must account for them. There will be instances when you must cast aside your impulses and take a higher stance than another person—a person without honor—might take. Such instances may hurt, but that's why honor is a painful field.

Children don't have any honor, you see, and they aren't expected to, because it's too difficult for them. It's too painful. But to become an adult, one must step into the field of honor. Everything will be expected of you now. You will need to be vigilant in your principles. Sacrifices will be demanded. You will be judged.

And what are your duties at the theater?" "To catch things that are falling through midair, right before they hit the ground and shatter.

you must never become lax about maintaining it

Second, and far more important: tuck your chin. You're going to get hurt, so expect it and be ready. You may as well see it coming.

They were taking my natural feelings away, so quietly that it could have occurred without my noticing. I understood in a flash that I must keep my mind safe, whatever came next.

grounds. I said no, that there'd been a watchman at the house

Don't just stand there like two posts," she says crisply to us, "or someone'll come along and tie a horse to you.

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers" (Acts 20:28).

Aviation is not in itself inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than even the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.

My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way that even the most abundantly offered love, my parents', my brother's, even Tom's, had failed to do. Love was required of me now--to be given, not merely to be sought and returned.

We all guard against sins of commission and we are vigilant toward sins of omission. But achievements—even in small doses—can make us vulnerable to sins of addition: adding niceties and luxuries to our list of basic needs, adding imaginations onto the strong back of vision, adding self-satisfaction to the purity of peace.

Stay alert! And stay close to me!" "I'll stick like a burr," said Maerad.

After some time it was borne in upon him that he could shake the colonel's shoulder all night and that would be all he would have for it.

Sometimes fear isn't a bad thing. It keeps you alert and aware.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle

You're following me," I say. "Yes, I am." "That's really annoying." "I'm sure it probably feels that way, yes." I stop. "I can take care of myself." Overhead, the gas in the streetlamp surges. It grows brighter, harsher. There are no shadows anywhere as he looks at me. "That's exactly what worries me.

seasoned operative should always check his or her perimeter at unexpected times and in unexpected ways.

But Maddie walked to the side of the bridge, and then he saw a huge knife buried in the post, waiting. "Stefan took your knife," he blurted like an idiot. Maddie looked like she'd never been more insulted in her life. "I never leave the house with just one knife. Seriously. Do I look like a one-knife kind of girl?" She pulled it from the post and Logan could see the fire glistening off a long blade that could have easily sliced through those old ropes.

Keep an eye out for caves," she told Logan. "And sometimes you can crawl into the big trees, nest in around the roots. But we have to be careful." "Because of bears?" Logan asked. "And wolves," she said. "Wolves like places like that." "Oh. There are wolves now. Yay," Logan said.