Vigilant Quotes - Page 7

• We have gangs roaming the street. And in many cases, they're illegally here, illegal immigrants. And they have guns. And they shoot people. And we have to be very strong. And we have to be very vigilant.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Gun, People

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in large business organizations, we shall be most vigilant never to allow them to crystallize into a condition which shall make private initiative difficult. It is of the utmost importance that in the future we shall keep the broad path of opportunity just as open and easy for our children as it was for our fathers during the period which has been the glory of America's industrial history.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Father, Opportunity

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• If we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might not have been true 10, 20, 30 years ago in - in part because of the way news is transmitted and in part because so many people are skeptical of mainstream news organizations that - everything's true and everything's false.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Years, Organization

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

  Andrew Motion

  Moving, Want, Sympathetic

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• Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven.

  James McCosh

  Eye, Humility, Pride

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 485, 1895.

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• There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.

  Graham Swift

  Humble, Land, Progress

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• If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.

  Rumi

  Heart, Action, Moments

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.59, Lulu.com

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• It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

  George F. Kennan

  Russia, Usa, America

  "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs, July 1947

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• All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for her during her recovery was a gift – the most rewarding experience in my life.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Mother, Recovery, Receiving

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• If you see to it each day that your conduct is impeccable, the following day will be completely clear, and you will be free to carry out your plans, always vigilant that you leave no loose ends. In this way, each new day will find you free and well disposed.

  Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

  New Day, Each Day, Way

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• Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a mother can't protect her child - not from pain, or horror, or the nightmare of violence, from sealed trains moving rapidly in the wrong direction, the depravity of strangers, trapdoors, abysses, fires, cars in the rain, from chance.

  Nicole Krauss

  Mother, Pain, Children

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.270, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something he felt but could not describe: porous and spiky, shifting with flecks of thought, with urge and memory; salted with brightness, flickerings of white and green and pale gold; something that loved stars because it was made of the same substance.

  Michael Cunningham

  Stars, Memories, Heart

  Michael Cunningham (2007). “Specimen Days: A Novel”, p.4, Macmillan

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• To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.

  Bell Hooks

  Community, Way, Awareness

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.36, Routledge

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• Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.

  John Cheever

  Art, Exercise, Choices

  John Cheever (2010). “Collected Stories”, p.549, Random House

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• Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.

  Calista Flockhart

  Nice, Thinking, Issues

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• Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

  Horace Mann

  Education, School, Character

  Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.113

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• Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.

  Marya Mannes

  Daughter, Orchids, Ribbons

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• Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

  Walter Raleigh

  Eye, Design, Wells

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.99

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• Environmentali sm isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water.

  Lisa P. Jackson

  Sports, Air, Water

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• For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.

  Francois Mitterrand

  Strong, Artist, Giving

  "'L'Abeille et l'architecte' ('The Bee and the Architect')". Book by François Mitterrand, 1980.

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• Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the teacher's job in relation to this stress is ultimately to help the child learn to manage his or her own stress wisely. In accomplishing this, the teacher mentors higher academic learning by removing distracting stress, and teaches valuable life-survival skills.

  Michael Gurian

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

  Michael Gurian (2010). “Boys and Girls Learn Differently! A Guide for Teachers and Parents: Revised 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.152, John Wiley & Sons

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• As Latter-day Saints we must ever be vigilant. The way for each person and each family to guard against the slings and arrows of the Adversary and to prepare for the great day of the Lord is to hold fast to the iron rod, to exercise greater faith, to repent of our sins and shortcomings, and to be anxiously engaged in the work of His kingdom on earth, which is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Herein lies the only true happiness for all our Father's children.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Jesus, Children, Lying

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• No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant about policing the public square, not less so. . . . [Y]ou cannot sustain liberal democracy without cultivating liberal habits of mind among religious believers. That remains true today, both in Baghdad and in Baton Rouge.

  Mark Lilla

  Religious, Squares, Long

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• Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Odds, Practice, Long

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2012). “Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Tyrants, Law, People

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