Quotes About Vigilance

For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.

When the thunderclap comes, there is no time to cover the ears.

Don't mess with my kids again. I will look past it once because I do believe its my fault. But if you touch my kids one more time, then you'll be in danger too.

We are being watched. It's now time for us to watch the watchers.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.

Every time I leave the house or we go anywhere, there is a paranoia. We always have to watch for specific cars and specific signs that we're being photographed.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

Be cautious of bears at all times, even when being mauled by a tiger.

He was outfitted for the occasion with his broadsword, long knife, several throwing knives tucked in his boots, the dragon pistol, and a pocket pistol in his waistcoat. You are a walking armory, Father Jacob observed. Because you are a walking target, said Sir Ander.

There is nothing people cannot get accustomed to, even to a life like mine, and so I must be careful, very careful indeed, not to become accustomed to it myself.

As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.

Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

They were all running on adrenaline, which cannot just be turned off. So even when they had silent hours and felt reasonably safe with their backs against a wall, most could not fully sleep. They would nod off with their head between their knees, a rifle in one hand and a grenade in the other. It was more like being temporarily not awake than sleep.

Safety doesn't happen by accident. —FLORIDA HIGHWAY SIGN

The art of the police consists in not seeing what there is no use seeing.' Napoleon Bonaparte

To the old such plots and plans, such matured schemes for obtaining the goods of this world without the trouble of earning them, such long-headed attempts to convert 'tuum' into 'meum,' are the ways of life to which they are accustomed. 'Tis thus that many live, and it therefore behoves all those who are well to do in the world to be on their guard agains those who are not.

Look at Grandma," my mother would say. "You never want to be dependent on a man." The fear of ending up like Tanya, cutting coupons in a one-room efficiency surrounded by strangers, made me vigilant like my parents, anxious that the poverty of our ancestors was always just one wrong move away.

It was as if I were a little girl again, afraid of shadows in the stucco walls of our hallway; they looked like monsters—were monsters, to me in my rigid insomniac sentinel. But you can never tell with shadows. You have to be vigilant, always, because maybe you're crazy, but maybe you're right.

Remember folks, always be careful when you're out at night! Lotsa crazee things go on out there!

The mind has many watchdogs; sometimes they bark unnecessarily, but a wise man never ignores their warning.