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Quotes About Watchman

On a dance floor half a dozen couples were throwing themselves around with the reckless abandon of a night watchman with arthritis.
~ Raymond Chandler
On the dance floor half a dozen couples were throwing themselves around with the reckless abandon of a night watchman with arthritis.
~ Raymond Chandler
God gave him a work to do. He commissioned him to be a watchman on the walls.
~ Dr. David Jeremiah
if we are walking in the anointing of the watchman, if we are paying attention, the Holy Spirit will make us aware of Satan's schemes and attacks. We will see them and can take action.
~ Dutch Sheets
It's guarded by the watchman of the gods . . . Heimdal, I think his name is.
~ Ken Follett
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
~ William Shakespeare
grounds. I said no, that there'd been a watchman at the house
~ Elizabeth Moon
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
~ Robert Frost
I should like my life to leave after it no other murmur than that of the watchman, a song to while away the waiting.
~ Andre Breton
Arus the watchman grasped his crossbow with shaky hands, and he felt beads of clammy perspiration on his skin as he stared at the unlovely corpse sprawling on the polished floor before him. It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
~ Robert E. Howard
And all through that night of age-long agony the gray figure stood, still as a statue, at the foot of the stairs. Only, when, with the first chill breath of the morning, a dry, quick-quenched sob of a strong man sorrowing for the helpmeet of a score of years, and a tiny cry of a new-born child wailing because its mother was not, came down to his ears, the Gray Watchman dropped his head upon his bosom, and, with a little whimpering note, crept back to his blanket.
~ Alfred Ollivant
Watchman, what of the night?
~ Anonymous
Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
~ Anonymous
Biff Hooper, a high school chum, had recently taken a weekend job as watchman at an electronics company. Its factory was located near Willow River outside Bayport.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
I'll be the night watchman," said Patrice, and went out to get the ax.
~ Louise Erdrich
I nipped into this sanctuary late this afternoon and soon heard the dying footfalls of closing time. From now on, my only effort will be to dodge the night watchman. Poets can dodge.
~ John Collier
The girl was particularly indignant --not only about this watchman but about all the other people all over India. She said they were all dirty and dishonest. She had a very pretty, open, English face but when she said that it became mean and clenched, and I realised that the longer she stayed in India the more her face would become like that.
~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Guard your heart:Mysterious things happen in there.Stand as the watchman of your soul, And be careful about what you let in.For, therefrom, come all your life's issues.
~ Manuela George-Izunwa
And then the stars stepped forth and help up their appointed fires- that hot, hard watchman of the night.
~ Mary Oliver
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
~ Charles Dickens
The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, 'Here comes my food.!
~ Watchman Nee
ALBA from "Langue d'Oc" When the nightingale to his mate Sings day-long and night late My love and I keep state In bower, In flower, 'Till the watchman on the tower Cry: "Up! Thou rascal, Rise, I see the white Light And the night Flies.
~ Ezra Pound
Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.
~ Harper Lee
text for today is taken from the twenty-first chapter of Isaiah, verse six: For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
~ Harper Lee