“I have depeloped a substance which allows me to command time at my discretion.” — René Barjavel Copy Share Image
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense. — Solomon Copy Share Image
Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible,… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear,… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as… — Alexander Clark Copy Share Image
If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against… — Henry VIII of England Copy Share Image
But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“UN-Impressive Acts of Indiscretion • Forwarding other people's emails without getting permission. • Throwing other people under the bus to save yourself.… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
“A discreet person . . . • is strong, yet humble; • expresses genuine concern and interest; • exercises caution to avoid… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“The irony is that their enthusiasm for personal revelation can backfire badly and have the opposite effect. People become their own worst… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it. — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
Corruption is the by-product of discretion when there is scope for interpretation of policies. — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
I don't show every picture that I have, I think discretion is also important. — Mick Rock Copy Share Image
When it comes to revamping our bail laws, we can't rely on judicial discretion alone. — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
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