Quotes About Vigilance

Like a muezzin in his minaret, one of the talking birds began to shout from the tall palm beyond the mango trees, "Here and now, boys. Here and now, boys.

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Playboy: Do you ever wonder how you have survived this long? Thompson: Yes. Nobody expected me to get much past 20. Least of all me. I just assume, "Well, I got through today, but tomorrow might be different." This is a very weird and twisted world; you can't afford to get careless; don't fuck around. You want to keep your affairs in order at all times.

And it was young men in red cars who were the most dangerous of all. Such people were best given a wide berth, both in and out of the car.

Be very careful of anything that looks too good to be true. Because if it looks too good to be true, that's probably because that's exactly what it is!

Caution was always required when you looked under a bed—anybody's bed, even your own.

I'd rather have ten soldiers to guard than a single scholar.

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People often learn about starvation economies in childhood, when parents who are emotionally depleted or unavailable teach us that we must work hard to get our emotional needs met, so that if we relax our vigilance for even a moment, a mysterious someone or something may take the love we need away from us.

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

We'll wait until he crouches down to bind us,

If you're able to stun and disable someone hell-bent on killing you, you don't continue running. You make sure they stay down. Period.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

The best car safety device is a rear view mirror with a cop in it.

It's gonna take someone getting seriously sick. Football didn't do much 'bout steroids until Lyle Alzado died. That's the way of the world. Until your house burns down, you don't worry about getting smoke detectors.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty

A Warrior is always vigilant.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

A cop friend downstate had once described what he called the 'pucker effect,' the body's automatic response when something just wasn't right. He wasn't talking about the lips; the puckering happened farther south, and every cop learned to trust that instinct.

Jesus said, "But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly" (Luke 21:34).