Quotes About Vigilance

Don't go looking for trouble; it's already looking for you.

Experience had taught me it's better to be wary and feel ridiculous than to get conked on the head, or abducted, or whatever the enemy plan of the day might be.

The most important thing is to stay fresh - physically and mentally - and to also avoid injury of course.

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.

Titus O'Neil can mess you up! You gotta protect yourself with Titus!

If I thought anybody was messing with me, I was difficult.

I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

I will be the defence minister round-the-clock.

He watched her in the aisles: Molly, his pretty baseball wife, with her ceaseless vigilance for lumps, her insistence on quarterly medical check-ups for him and Willy, her controlled fear of the dark; her hard-bought knowledge that time is luck. She knew the value of their days. She could hold a moment by its stem. She had taught him to relish.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

What is success? A mysterious, indescribable power—a vigilance, a readiness, the awareness that simply by my presence I can exert pressure on the movements of life around me, the belief that life can be molded to my advantage.

paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.

Usually this is a result of having had to be hypervigilant as a child—especially if your family situation was chaotic or frightening—and consequently developing a habit of trying to see problems before they even show up.

an adage about the fire department: A firefighter's job is hours of boredom, seconds of terror.

Let's go, Millennium Earl. I won't let you…and the Fourteenth ever cross paths again.

As Allen Walker's bodyguard, I can't ignore what you said.

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting.

two sharp brown eyes surveyed the room like drive-by shooters.

I had never been able when there to fully elude the awareness that I was surrounded by thieves and killers, each of whom had a very good explanation for his or her acts but none of whom gave the impression of being willing to put up with questionable behavior from anyone else ever again.

The person who recognizes the strategy of Too Many Details sees the forest while simultaneously being able to see the few trees that really matter. When approached by a stranger while walking on some city street at night, no matter how engaging he might be, you must never lose sight of the context: He is a stranger who approached you. A good exercise is to occasionally remind yourself of where you are and what your relationship is to the people around you.

You are an animal of nature, fully endowed with hearing, sight, intellect, and dangerous defenses. You are not easy prey, so don't act like you are.