Watchman Quotes

“I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference.”

“These were dangerous thoughts, he knew. They were the kind that crept up on a Watchman when the chase was over and it was just you and him, facing one another in that breathless little pinch between the crime and the punishment.And maybe a Watchman had seen civilization with the skin ripped off one time too many and stopped acting like a Watchman and started acting like a normal human being and realized that the click of the crossbow or the sweep of the sword would make all the world so clean.And you couldn’t think like that, even about vampires. Even though they’d take the lives of other people because little lives don’t matter and what the hell can we take away from them?And, too, you couldn’t think like that because they gave you a sword and a badge and that turned you into something else and that had to mean there were some thoughts you couldn’t think.Only crimes could take place in darkness. Punishment had to be done in the light. That was the job of a good Watchman, Carrot always said. To light a candle in the dark.”

“Be the watchman of your values to safeguard your character.”

“Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.”

“For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." -”

“Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it's dangerous.”

“Watchman what of the night?”

“Watchman what of the night?”

“Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee That we his evil power may bind His prisoners to free.”

“If you don't doubt it, be 'bout it. Intuition is soul's watchman.”