Forever Vigilant Quotes & Sayings

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me. — Alan Furst

Had Brussels's rulers not opted to declare it an open city and thereby exempt it from bombardment during the Second World War, it might have been reduced to rubble. — Teju Cole

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior ... because the battles we fight are on the inside — Socrates

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers. — Dorothy Parker

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God. — Ernestine Rose

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must ... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes. — Marcel Proust

There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future. — Khalil Gibran

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity. — John Mearsheimer

There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas. — Frederick Lenz

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball. — Robert Carlyle