Quotes About Vigilance

In Grossman's mind, there were just three categories of human beings—sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves.

Without someone to hunt the wolves, the sheep would never be safe. The wolves were multiplying too quickly. The sheepdogs were being overrun.

Paranoia might be annoying, but a healthy dose of it served to keep you alive. No one ever got killed by being too vigilant.

Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.

man cannot be trusted unless they are watched

It is too bad that men cannot be trusted unless they are watched.

It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.

One must be so careful these days.

Crains, dans le mur aveugle, un regard qui t'épie!

Just like that. It's time I started paying attention, before I end up like Stan Dempsey, living alone with an arsenal and one lawn chair in the backyard.

Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

How could she not know he was thinking about sex? he wondered. It was all he'd been thinking about for the last eighteen hours, give or take a few minutes spent thinking about keeping them both alive. Oh, yeah, and twice he'd thought about food, once about her mother, and once he'd checked to make sure he had an extra mag for his Glock.

Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape.

Make sure your soul is attached at all times - this town will steal it in a second, given the chance.

Birdsong is a sound which most people find reassuring. There is a reason for that. Over hundreds of thousands of years we've learned that when the birds are singing, things are safe. It's when they stop you need to be worried.

Real life isn't a dream. You have to keep your eyes open. Ears too.

but the other guard, who couldn't have been more than twenty, was wearing a snarl on his face that Wolgast didn't like. There was always one guard who liked the job for the wrong reasons, and this was the one.

When evening fell he dragged a chair out to the porch, where he sat through the night, a shotgun on his lap, staring into the dark.

But who is to guard the guards themselves?

Quis costodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will watch the watchers?)

I know what fear is. I know what it means to be scared, to be always on the lookout. I know what it means to hear your own heartbeat. It means you are on your own. The world is watching you but only you can hear the music.

Still, it was better than sitting around playing cards waiting to have your throat cut.

So, being Artavasdus, instead of diving for cover and shitting himself like any normal human being, or me, he stood there, watched carefully and took notes.

Don't do anything stupid.", FADE by Kailin Gow