Quotes About Vigilance

It is foolish for anyone to be complacent.

I can't set one foot out of my house or anywhere in the world without security.

Keep your enemies in front of you.

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.

His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities of a fantastic kind.

One should never presume one is the sole object of a hunt

Don't sit with your back to any doors.

How many times must I tell that lad never to settle himself with his back to a door?

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life

Quis custodiet ipsos custodiet?

Arm yourself when the Frog God smiles. — Gowachin admonition

looked for signs of slackness and especially for areas of responsibility that were running too smoothly. The Senior Watchdog had her own watchwords: "Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

Oamenii se nasc predispuÈ™i la una dintre cele mai tenace È™i debilitante afecÈ›iuni mentale: autoam?girea. Cea mai bun? ca È™i cea mai rea dintre lumile posibile îÈ™i cap?t? din aceast? stare de lucruri coloritul lor tragic. În m?sura în care putem noi s? determin?m, nu exist? imunitate natural?. VigilenÈ›a se impune în fiece clip?.

I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

Marv's a guy you've got to be careful around. He doesn't mean any harm, but he causes plenty.

Journalism was vigilant about separating the church of editorial from the secular concerns of business. We can now see the justification for such fanaticism about building a thick, tall wall between the two. The fear was that we'd enter a world where readers couldn't tell the difference between editorial and advertising—where the corrupt hand of advertisers would interfere with the journalistic search for truth. Those fears are in the process of being realized.

Joe volunteered to stay awake since he was not particularly tired at the moment. While the others turned in, he stationed himself in a chair near the window. Turning over the pages of a magazine, he listened to the sounds of the hotel coming to life. The buzz of cars in the parking lot indicated that the day shift was replacing the night shift. The elevator clanged as guests arrived and departed. A low hum of voices from the street reached the room.

He accepted it as a fundamental principle for an accused man to be always forearmed, never to let himself be caught napping, never to let his eyes stray unthinkingly to the right when his judge was looming up on the left--to the right when his judge was looming up on the left--and against that very principle he kept offending again and again.

Don't be too optimistic, the light at the end of the tunnel might be a train.

We have to be cautious, we can't let negativity spread like wildfire.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.

If you're going away, be sure to cancel the paper, the milk, and the laundry pickup. Remove the fresh stuff from the ice box, lock the windows and doors, and phone the cops and tell them how long you'll be gone so they'll keep an eye out for burglars.

With Stewart International Airport located here, the New Windsor Police Department has an added responsibility to take anti-terrorism precautions while protecting our area.