Quotes About Vigilance

Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?

the best defense was a good lock or a mean dog. Or both.

DSS—didn't see shit.

Sleep with your guns tonight, boys.

I thought, Holy shit, who is paying attention?" Thus

When you go into the details of the cases, you see it's not bad people," he said. "It's bad systems. When the systems depend on human vigilance, they will fail.

When the systems depend on human vigilance, they will fail.

A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.

I work out every single day, so you all don't have to worry about me being in shape, and my mind is going to always be sharp.

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

The fact is," he says, "we are really no better prepared for a bad outbreak today than we were when Spanish flu killed tens of millions of people a hundred years ago. The reason we haven't had another experience like that isn't because we have been especially vigilant. It's because we have been lucky.

When Daniel Boone is uneasy, you know it's time to watch your step.

In this business, by the time you realize you are in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless your running scared all the time, you're gone.

If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it proactive intelligence screening or high alert detecting, people would be saying Well, it's about time.

BE CAREFUL, OR BE ROADKILL!

Don't look into car headlights and freeze, because you'll either get run over or shot!

Because you and you alone I can't block out, no matter how hard I try - and believe me, I've tried. I know where you are every second of every day. I know if you're having good or bad dreams while you sleep.

All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and stairs can kill us, if we do not walk circumspectly.

I didn't feel the need to examine every stranger that approached.

Why put an alarm where you are not?

The only people who might hope to survive were those who had exercised some degree of caution and had prepared in advance.

None of the sheep ever wanted a sheepdog around until one of them spotted a wolf. By then, it was often too late.

there were just three categories of human beings—sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves. To those three categories, Harvath had added another—wolf hunters. That was what the world needed more of. The sheep had only two speeds—graze and stampede. They needed sheepdogs to keep them safe in case of an attack by the wolves. Wolf hunters, though, were needed to find and kill the wolves, whenever possible, before they attacked.