Quotes About Vigilance

There are plenty of politically motivated pretenders out there preparing to punk you, and you better be on your toes.

Every flaw you have or lapse of concentration can cost you a goal, so you have to be on your toes every minute of the game.

I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.

I'll always have to make sure things happen eventually and don't slip from my hands, from under my nose. I'll always have to be on my toes.

You always need to be on your toes.

For me, it's always been to be on your toes about everything no matter what you do - my mom and dad always stressed that to me.

We are not ready to tolerate any harm coming to our country, and we will fight all powers that cause harm to our country, that work against our country's interests.

You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.

In Aunt Boo's opinion, it was better to know how to avoid danger than to avoid dangerous places.

She said that; and I knew then that, careful as I have been—still and secret and silent as I have been, in my high room—she has been watching me, as Miss Ridley watches, and Miss Haxby.

Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. —1 Peter 5:8 NASB

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

safeguards don't make you safe; they make you lazy.

Remember how she joked about twenty armed people in the next room?" said Jean with a sigh. He set down the book he'd been reading. "There were twenty armed men in the next room.

What good's slacking all the time if the ship comes apart beneath you while you sleep?

If you feel strongly that someone is watching you, that's because they probably are. Your brain has a primal gaze detection system that determines whether someone is staring directly at you or not.

If you think something is innovative, it just means you haven't been paying attention. attention. Scott Rogers

A milligram of caution is worth a double quintal of remorse, so let us step warily.

for who could be blind to the evidence of his eyes, the obviousness of that hall-watcher's hate? Whoever escaped kept a weather-eye open and moved away.

I feel that everyone is good. In this way I give every game my best effort. The moment that you let up is the time that you can be hit by the sucker punch.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

My professional persona never loosens its grip, keeping an eye on me at all times.

Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

I guess it was exciting that every time I pulled up to the gate of my house, I wondered if someone was going to jump out of the bush and stab me in the face.