Quotes of: Discretion Keyword

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

Junius

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Walter Scott

She had the experience to suffer with discretion.

Call for the Dead

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

John Shirley

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

John Griffin Carlisle

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Georg Simmel

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Discretion is a polite word for hypocrisy. Tea Party Teddy

Dianne Harman

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Henry Steele Commager

Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

Amit Abraham

There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.

Pat Meehan

Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.

S. E. Entsua-Mensah

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Max Weber

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Henry Steele Commager

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Jean de La Fontaine

A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.

Bill Dedman

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

Michael Behe

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

Roberto Unger

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

Kara Swisher

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

Barbara Tuchman

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