Quotes About Vigilance

We were watching Barrons. Why were you watching Barrons? Barrons needs watching.

Fact: you can never know another person completely. Fact: you are born alone and die alone. Fact: there is no such thing as safety. Only vigilance, determination to survive, and a willingness to be ruthless about it. Fact: love is not perfect. Fact: neither am I.

I'd also secreted a few crosses and bottles of holy water in various nooks. Barrons would laugh at me if he knew. You might wonder if I'm expecting an army from Hell. I am.

When one feels threatened, one clears the house before going to bed, but when one feels safe—a foolish thing to ever believe—one doesn't compulsively check all windows and doors, or is perhaps busy celebrating what one perceives as a victory over one's enemy. And that's precisely when the enemy strikes.

Fact: you can never know another person completely. Fact: you are born alone and die alone. Fact: there is no such thing as safety. Only vigilance, determination to survive, and a willingness to be ruthless about it. Fact: love is not perfect. Fact:

Er zijn meer mannen gespaard door goed om zich heen te kijken dan door uitmuntende vechtkunst.

The boys ate warily, trying not to be seen or heard, the cornbread sticking, the buttermilk gurgling, as it went down their gullets.

We can't all guard the life we love—or there soon would be no life left to love but being a guard.

Just because the light is green doesn't mean you shouldn't look both ways before stepping into the street.

A little fear is good for a fellow, it keeps him from getting over-confident.

people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.

I trust no one totally.

If we are looking for some specific, expected danger, we are less likely to see the unexpected danger. I urge that she pay relaxed attention to her environment rather than paying rapt attention to her imagination.

Avoid being in the presence of someone who might do you harm.

If we are looking for some specific, expected danger, we are less likely to see the unexpected danger.

Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.

Keep your right up or there'll be nothing left of you." - 100 Bullets I love this quote because it has double meaning.

Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

Even in safe havens, men have enemies

chair under the doorknob of her bedroom door and found some cans to put around the door. The next morning she tied those cans together and hung them from the door. And, every night for the rest of my days living with my grandmother, the cans were on the door and the chair was up under the knob. I would try to sleep while listening to make sure the cans didn't move.

The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.

Be cautious whom you trust. — Don't easily trust anyone on this earth because there are all kinds.

We—and here I include myself—need to be careful lest, in working hard and standing firm against wickedness, we (like the church in Ephesus) forsake our first love and fall from a great height.

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.