56 Sentinel Quotes
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Famous Sentinel Quotes
It is always good to be careful or vigilant. — Didier Deschamps
But who guards the guardians? — Juvenal
Who watches the watchmen? — Juvenal
paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness — John Lennon
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. — Lydia Maria Child
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards? — Josh Billings
He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard. — Publilius Syrus
Let the eye of vigilance never be closed. — Thomas Jefferson
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — John Keble
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
You were put here to protect us. But who protects us from you? — KRS-One
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. — Andrew Vachss
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. — Horace
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor. — Graham Greene
Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper. — Erika Slezak
Short Sentinel Quotes
- The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. — Charles Baudelaire
- The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
- That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel. — Oliver Goldsmith
- The stars, bright sentinels of the skies. — William Habington
- Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace. — John of Damascus
People Writing About Sentinel
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Juvenal |
300 | 1355 |
 Thomas Jefferson |
1788 | 19141 |
 Didier Deschamps |
54 | 1 |
 John Lennon |
617 | 9452 |
 Lydia Maria Child |
20 | 160 |
 Josh Billings |
349 | 3035 |
More Sentinel Quotes
No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man — Ernest Shackleton
Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father. — Brigham Young
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
There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall. — Fidel Castro
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels. — William Henry Ashley
Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city. — Joseph Hall
I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town . — Garrison Keillor
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 eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough. — James G. Frazer
How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To put his armour off, and rest in heaven! — Nathaniel Parker Willis
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey. — Samuel Johnson
A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove. — William Gurnall
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. — Daniel Webster
That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we are to look for it in the wrong places, how it does not reveal itself until it is beyond redress, how vainly we search for it around us and find too late that is has occurred within us. — Robert Grudin
Matt's [Nix] is much more a part of just the world in terms of there are mutants, mutants are hated and there are Sentinels - though very different from what we've seen before. You feel like you're here in the X-Men world. — Lauren Shuler Donner
Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity. — E. M. Forster
We, especially those of us in depoliticized and pacified societies, need to cast a colder eye at our self-perceptions, now and in the past, as sentinels and embodiments of Enlightenment virtues of reason, dissent, and skepticism. — Pankaj Mishra
[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other-that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights. — James Madison
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened. — George D. Prentice
I will be in Orlando during the atheist convention to do my best to counter the assaults upon Christ of the atheists. I also plan on running a large newspaper ad in the Orlando Sentinel addressed to the atheists and warning the Orlando area of the atheists' vile plans for their children. — Bill Murray
So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again. — Daniel Defoe
Let me give you a definition in brief. Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being enabled to give them the key words, the signs and tokens, pertaining to the holy Priesthood, and gain your eternal exaltation in spite of earth and hell — Brigham Young
In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret. — C.S. Friedman
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. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare. — George R. R. Martin
Sentinel meeting tonight,” Ria told her. “At Lucas's place.” “Time?” ... “Seven. Sascha's doing dinner.” “God save us all.” Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back. — Nalini Singh
There is a proper way to greet the sentinels in Ceris, certain patterns and forms that you must observe when presented to Queen Islanzadí, and a hundred different manners in which to greet those around you, if it’s not better to just remain quiet.” “With all your customs,” Eragon risked saying, “it seems as though you’ve only made it easier to offend people.” A smile flickered across her lips. “Perhaps. — Christopher Paolini
Fetch Constantine, or I’ll make boots out of your hide, bear. (Arcadian Sentinel) Don’t touch me, or I’ll mount your jewels to the wall over your head. (Aimee) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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