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Tag Name "Discretion" (139)

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Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.
Megan Whalen Turner
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Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.
Eloisa James
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, Discretion under which standards? or Discretion as to which authority?
Ronald Dworkin
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Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Lytton Strachey
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Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.
Jim Butcher
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Francis Bacon
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
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Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
Georg Simmel
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In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.
Murasaki Shikibu
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Love is the tyrant of the heart it darkens Reason, confounds discretion deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
John Ford
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The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners.
Natalie Goldberg
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
John Selden
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Let take a cat, and foster her with milk And tender flesh, and make her couch of silk, And let her see a mouse go by the wall, Anon she leaveth milk and flesh, and all, And every dainty that is in that house, Such appetite hath she to eat the mouse. Lo, here hath kind her domination, And appetite banishes discretion.
Oswald Barron
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Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
Joseph Addison
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Health and Human Services has an enormous amount of discretion that they have so far used to make it harder to get affordable health care. To make you buy what the government insists you must buy. That doesn`t work.
Paul Ryan
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Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.
Joseph Addison
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I like my clients. All of my clients say, Peter. You're talented. But, your best virtue is your discretion. They really don't want to be talked about.
Peter Marino
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A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.
Joseph Addison
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Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love withouten measure desire withouten limit longing withouten order burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread distressed, nor by doom tempted.
Richard Rolle
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Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
Ken Robinson
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