Alert Quotes
316 quotes by 245 authors
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Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the nape of her…
— Robin McKinley
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…when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…
— Steve Martin
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Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked. "Well, I would, but he's always asleep when I go and see…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe…
— John Gardner
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If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.
— Paulo Coelho
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet…
— Joko Beck
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If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it "proactive intelligence screening" or "high alert detecting", people would be saying "Well, it's about time".
— Bill Maher
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Im not tense, just terribly, terribly alert." Nick
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things,…
— Jack London
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. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .
— John Irving
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When Alani started to speak, Jackson held up a finger. In the past five minutes, he'd had more mood swings than a menopausal woman. First…
— Lori Foster
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What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's…
— Paulo Coelho
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The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously…
— Knut Hamsun
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And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized,…
— Anais Nin
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It is only in alert silence that truth can be.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.
— Paulo Coelho
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Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated…
— Bruce Lee
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Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert…
— Gerard K. O'Neill
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One has to be very alert to go beyond lust. And one has to be constantly aware of jealousy, of possessiveness, of domination, because those…
— Rajneesh
Who Wrote These Alert Quotes
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