Theres that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously. — Lisa Guerrero Copy Share Image
It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation. — Enzo Ferrari Copy Share Image
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life. — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. .… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound… — M. R. James Copy Share Image
If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“You yourself are English and yet you do not seem to appreciate the quality of the English reaction to a direct question.… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life.… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go… — Sebastian Smee Copy Share Image
The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to examine and difficult to speak for other writers, but when I look at my own writing there… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence. — Morris L. Ernst Copy Share Image
There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously. — Lisa Guerrero Copy Share Image
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely… Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
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