Quotes About Vigilance

You think I've been around these fuckers long enough to get comfortable enough to SLEEP ten feet away from them? Not fucking likely. (Axel)

Que un centinela se emborrache y luego deserte de su puesto y entregue su arma supone combinar un pecado mortal con un delito imperdonable.

Two months after marching through Boston,half the regiment was dead;at the dedication,William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe.Their monument sticks like a fishbonein the city's throat.Its Colonel is as leanas a compass-needle.He has an angry wrenlike vigilance,a greyhound's gentle tautness;he seems to wince at pleasure,and suffocate for privacy.

Sleep is a weapon!

In other words, the default state is to trust, and what the amygdala does is learn vigilance and distrust.

La preocupación priva a la mente de gran parte de su poder y, antes o después, acaba dañando el alma. »Para vivir una vida de máxima plenitud hay que montar guardia y dejar que entre en tu jardín sólo la información más selecta.

He has never been satisfied to be a mere spectator at anything. I'd take an oath he even plots in his sleep.

Grant adopted unusual precautions, returning to the Willard Hotel twice daily for meals and staying indoors at night. When he set eyes on images of John Wilkes Booth, he immediately recognized the sinister horseman who had shadowed his path to the train station and knew that he himself had stood on the death list of intended victims.

Rockefeller reviewed every bill that arrived at home and often patrolled the hallways, turning off gaslights.

He worried that a certain unnamed party might impose despotism: "To watch the progress of such endeavours is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against the encroachments of power. This then is a right of the utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood."26

The Department is wary of fanatics. [They] don't bend; they break.

Shotguns and children don't mix.

a yard and left, Dave," he said. O'Donnell was like a blind man. His eyes were tight on the two guys

You don't let an armed man ride behind you unless you know him.

They sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm." "You know George Orwell?" Yanni asked.

Plus paranoid. You can bet they did the exact same things on eighteen and twenty. Which would make their buffer zones virtually impregnable.

There was a knock at the door. Neagley herself, Reacher figured, right on cue, checking if Sinclair had killed him yet. Or Bishop, checking if he had killed Sinclair. He opened up, standing to one side, out of the line of fire. Long

Reacher said, "They sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm." "You know George Orwell?" Yanni asked. "I went to college," Reacher said. "West Point is technically a college.

When your instinct tells you something's wrong, then something's wrong. Always listen to your gut. It's what will save you from getting shoved into the back of some thug's car.

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of telltale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers.

presence. No

Don't give the man with the gun a reason to worry about you.

I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.