Quotes About Alertness

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind. 1 PETER 1:13 KJV

External vigilance is the price of liberty.

A los que evitan el pecado de la pereza intelectual podríamos llamarlos «diligentes». Están más alerta, son intelectualmente más activos, están menos dispuestos a quedarse satisfechos con respuestas superficialmente sugerentes, y son más escépticos con sus intuiciones.

Quem não olha, deixa de prestar atenção nas coisas.

You have pretty fair evidence to go on if you suspect that polls in general are biased in one specific direction, the direction of the Literary Digest error. This bias is toward the person with more money, more education, more information and alertness, better appearance, more conventional behavior, and more settled habits than the average of the population he is chosen to represent.

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

Be careful, he said dryly and don't die. - Minho

Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.

All one can do is to prepare oneself, to wait in readiness for what might come.

He dragged me back - just in time. A tree had crashed down on to the side walk, just missing us. Poirot stared at it, pale and upset. "It was a near thing that! But clumsy, all the same - for I had no suspicion - at least hardly any suspicion. Yes, but for my quick eyes, the eyes of a cat, Hercule Poirot might now be crushed out of existence - a terrible calamity for the world. And you, too, mon ami - though that would not be such a national catastrophe." "Thank you," I said coldly.

Watch and pray," he said. "Watch and pray. The day of judgment is at hand.

During the war, I honed my sense of suspicion into a fine art. Before approaching a house, a stable, or a barn, I would bend down to the ground and listen, sometimes for hours. By the sounds, I could tell if there were people there, and how many. People were always a sign of danger.

Winning is you just have to be quick, you snooze you lose

This is it! Stay low, don't bunch up, and run like hell!

Our fears keep us on our toes.

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

I think it is good when your blood is pumping, you are feeling lively, nice and warm, you are loose, you are awake, and your brain is switched on.

Every opponent in the Premier League is a warning.

You always have to be ready. When I'm washing dishes, I have to have a towel ready so I can dry my hands and push the record button on my phone.

I have an addiction to caffeine.

I exist on a caffeine level ten.

I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.

No, but you've got to be here in case something does happen.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.