Quotes About Vigilance

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.

Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

The American Protective League, of course. We keep an eye out for German sympathizers, slackers, shows of antipatriotism. That sort of thing. It's important work.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [ Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade) , Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

Autocracies survive when they can control the substance and flow of information to their citizens. This requires a ruthless vigilance to silence intellectuals and creatives.

And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.

Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead

You just remember who the enemy is," Haymitch says. "That's all.

We manage the darkness as we did in the arena, wrapped in each other's arms, guarding against dangers that can descend at any moment.

Mi-am petrecut atât de mult timp asigrându-m? c? nu-mi subestimez adversarii, încât am uitat c? e aproape tot atât de periculos s?-i supraestimez.

Cover yourself!" I lift my gun.

The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies.

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.

As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray.

I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously.

Some gifts are baits! Watch out!