Quotes About Vigilance

Secondo me, a farti ricordare qualcosa, di importante o meno, è il fatto che in quel momento eri particolarmente vigile, attento. Per la maggior parte del tempo viviamo in una sorta di trance, non facciamo caso a niente.

There were always eyes. A little tailor on his way home from a movie. A waitress in a drive-in. A butcher-boy on a bicycle. A room clerk with a wet pointed nose. A detective's wife who was alert, too alert. Whose eyes saw too much. There were always eyes but they didn't see. He had proved it.

One knows, when all one's life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that of emptiness.

For how long can one maintain total vigilance? For how long can love last, in isolation, without sinking crushed beneath its own pressure?

D'Agosta had long ago learned, when working with Pendergast, to never get caught without two things: a gun and a flashlight.

Beware the dog that does not bark, and the man who does not talk.

Just the whole city watching

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time.

Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.

But I always find it prudent to suspect everybody just a little. What I say is, you really never know, do you?

But I came to it at last through pursuing the rule I have just mentioned. And I was forced to recognize this: That every army and every navy and every police force has a certain number of traitors within its ranks, much as we hate to admit the idea.

During the war, I honed my sense of suspicion into a fine art. Before approaching a house, a stable, or a barn, I would bend down to the ground and listen, sometimes for hours. By the sounds, I could tell if there were people there, and how many. People were always a sign of danger.

This is why we have to stay awake, be vigilant: we need to believe that we, like the museum objects around us, bear time with equal complexity, that eventually we might discover who we have been, what purpose we serve and what use we might one day be.

If you aren't completely appalled, then you haven't been paying attention.

Don't inhibit your hearing. Auditory cues can be early warning signs. You can hear gun shots even when you can't see the gunman. Sit in places that offer the best visibility of exits and others. Watch people for cues and indicators that they may be up to no good. Trust your intuition. That "gut" feeling is there for a reason, and you need to pay attention to it.

Our fears keep us on our toes.

Watch out for pickpockets and gropers now," Adrana said, as if my words counted for nothing. "We'll go all the way along, then come out at Cat Gate.

I have learnt this over time, that Peter Jones, you've gotta watch him.

Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.

You couldn't get away with anything at City because there were always photographers everywhere.

One thing every Army pilot knows is that there is no such thing as a routine mission.

My pistols, however, I always kept by me.

Glasgow is a strange place. If you don't have someone close to you looking out for you, your head will wander.

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.