Quotes of Watchman - somelinesforyou

“ The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? ”

- Bible

“ The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ To be a surrealist... means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been. ”

- Rene Magritte

“ The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound. ”

- Lord Justice Topes

“ The Shepherd and the Wolf A shepherd once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a while taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks. The Wolf, having shown himself an apt pupil, said to the Shepherd, Since you have taught me to steal, you must keep a sharp lookout, or you will lose some of your own flock. ”

- Aesop

“ It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced… ”

- E. H. Chapin

“ He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the life of a sentinel — of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him. ”

- Edward Young

“ Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis. ”

- William Allingham

“ But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night! ”

- Bayard Taylor

“ A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory: "Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story! ”

- John Hay

“ The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that, he can sleep. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ She sits composedly sentinel, with paws tucked under her, a good part of her days at present by some ridiculous little hole, the possible entry of a mouse. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action. ”

- Julian Bond

“ We kept really good pressure on Sentinel the whole game. Our defense was tough. ”

- Rick Thompson

“ I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon. ”

- Matt Dillon

“ Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work — the night watchman. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion. ”

- Stendhal

“ The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. ”

- Susan Jeffers

“ We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ As he's getting a second project that he can use for border patrol or port surveillance, in our ports or any other number of shorter missions. ”

- John Craig

“ Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see… Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. ”

- Maltbie D. Babcock

“ Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success… ”

- Lao tzu

“ It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe. ”

- Albert J. Beveridge
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