Quotes About Vigilance

Foi que Titão Passos, pensando mais, me disse: — "Tudo temos de ter cautela...

She shoved her can right under his chin. "Don't mess with seniors," she growled at him.

A lot of energy is used up in the name of this false patience.

Rogue waves are the dangerous ones; they are the ones that no one takes note of or prepares to manage. These are the movements we should have seen but did not. Or, worse, they are what we saw coming but refused to acknowledge in the hope that ignoring them would make them go away.

He peered up the stairs. "Want to go first? Or last?" Debbie looked behind her. "Neither, but I suppose if I have to, I'll be first. I don't want something creeping up behind me." "I wish you wouldn't say dumb things like that!" Jeff shouted. He let her climb the stairs first, but he edged up sideways, one eye on the stairs behind them.

Lewis lived in as good a setting as any man for the life of vigilant aestheticism...His rooms were on the first floor of New Buildings 3, and ran the width of the building, so that the sitting-room looked out on Magdalen Grove, the other half of the suite commanding the Cloister, and, in the background, the incomparable Tower.

cycling is a nonstop exercise in crash prevention,

Better to have steel to hand and find no trouble than find yourself in trouble with no steel to hand.

He hated that his friend had to resume the duty of standing guard over his depression.

As I write these recollections of women who survived, I hope my readers are taking careful note of why they did. They screamed. They fought. They slammed doors in a stranger's face. They ran. They doubted glib stories. They spotted flaws in those stories. They were lucky enough to have someone step up and protect them.

The most basic bit of advice given to women who have to walk alone at night is, 'Look alert. Be aware of your surroundings and walk briskly. You will be safer if you know where you are going, and if anyone who observes you senses that.' The stalking, predatory animal cuts the weakest from the pack, and then kills at his leisure.

he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and he shared it with everyone.

Make sure you keep crawling, George. Don't think you've been discovered. Lots of guys were discovered that way, because they were imagining they'd already been discovered and then did something foolish.

HE HAS TEETH. SHE HAS A GUN. THEY ARE THE LAW.

Don't matter if you caw, Don't matter if you shout. Crowbones will gitcha If you don't watch out! —Crowgard rhyme

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak. MATTHEW 26:41

Unless the Lord keepeth the city, the watchman guardeth in vain

'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

There's a certain steely resolve when you decide to live in a city and decide to raise children in the city. And if you're doing it properly, you have sort of a heightened awareness anyway.

Taking action at an early stage - even before a prosecution may be possible - could stop stalkers becoming fixated.

You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

I can't take nothing for granted. I have to really protect myself - either get out of bounds or continue to finish the play.

We need a full-court press on personal protection. We need to be able to protect ourselves.