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Quotes About Discretion

It's not my duty to respond to what Mourinho says. I don't know the way he thinks.
~ Manuel Pellegrini
If anyone asks me a fantasy football question or for help, I don't respond.
~ Zach Ertz
Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire.
~ David Droga
You should never reveal your true age.
~ Eve Arnold
I don't talk about my salary.
~ Howard Stern
I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.
~ Alison Goldfrapp
Keeping secrets is hard.
~ Kerry Bishe
I'm actually really good at keeping secrets.
~ Ramin Djawadi
Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
~ Oren Peli
I'm not a person who has people tell me things in parking garages.
~ Bill Dedman
Only fools revealed their birthdays.
~ Peter Watts
Keep your own secret, and get out other people's.
~ Philip Dormer Stanhope
While awaiting deportation proceedings, my parents remained in detention near Boston, so I could visit them. They would have liked to fight deportation, but without a lawyer and an immigration system that rarely gives judges the discretion to allow families to stay together, they never had a chance.
~ Diane Guerrero
I choose roles according to my sensibilities.
~ Gautam Rode
So I never wanted to be an actor anyway, so I only do the films which appeal to me and my sensibility.
~ Konkona Sen Sharma
I'm not very much of a 'name it and shame it' kind of guy.
~ Sonny Perdue
I like to mind my business when it comes to other people's business, especially when it comes to beef.
~ Scarface
I don't like people seeing how I behave, walk, eat, and stay.
~ Hina Khan
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves: and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is, not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.47 This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
~ Jon Meacham
I hid myself between two leaves of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature.
~ Jonathan Swift
I had as I before observed, one private pocket, which escaped their search, wherein there was a pair of spectacles (which I sometimes use for the weakness of mine eyes,) a pocket perspective, and some other little conveniences; which, being of no consequence to the emperor, I did not think myself bound in honour to discover, and I apprehended they might be lost or spoiled if I ventured them out of my possession.
~ Jonathan Swift
Para escrever bem — acredito com firmeza —, é preciso ser discreto.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Do not divulge any fact that will help nobody.
~ Abdal Hakim Murad
What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.
~ Abigail Adams