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Quotes About Discretion

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
~ Jewish proverb
Well, this time you're just going to have to stop yourself." Straightening up, Rupert grinned. "We don't want this to be spoiled, do we? Trust me, some secrets are better kept.
~ Jill Mansell
If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.
~ Jill Paton Walsh
I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself; that should be a secret they must find out .
~ Joan Rivers
Our broken criminal justice system has rejected individual justice and discretion it requires, and instead insists on robotic and inflexible mandatory sentencing, sentencing guidelines, death sentences, life without possibility of parole, the actual or de facto elimination of sentence modifications, pardons, commutations, expungement, and record sealing." - Lary Krasner
~ Jody Armour
Make sure you keep crawling, George. Don't think you've been discovered. Lots of guys were discovered that way, because they were imagining they'd already been discovered and then did something foolish.
~ Anna Seghers
Your participation is now optional.
~ Anneli Rufus
I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.
~ Andy Dick
I mostly wear hats or put scarves over my head because I like to have a low profile when I go out.
~ Ann-Margret
I try to keep a low profile.
~ D. B. Sweeney
I've always kept a low profile and said no to 'Saturday Night Live' and stuff like that.
~ Tom Anderson
My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that.
~ Jeff Bridges
I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.
~ Daniel Craig
For the discreet among mortals are such as pass through life correctly with wisdom.
~ Euripides
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Mountain-climbing cars are built on a slant similar to the angle of a hat-brim of a man who doesn't want to be recognized.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Çok içen insanlar?n yan?nda ay?k kalmak her zaman faydal?d?r. Her ÅŸeyden önce dilinizi baÄŸlar, fazla gevezelik etmezsiniz. Daha da güzeli insan?n kendi kusur ve yanl??lar?n? örtebilmesidir, nas?lsa kimsenin sizi kimsenin sizi görecek hali olmaz. Zira görseler de umursamazlar.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
giving officials autonomy, discretion, and the ability to exercise their own judgment. It requires recruiting bright, devoted people who are inspired by the chance to serve their country and earn respect for doing it.
~ Fareed Zakaria
Revelaré secretos? No, porque los que tengo no son revelables, son secretos de verdad. ¿Cotillerías? Soy el último que se entera de todas y por tanto el menos adecuado para propalarlas.
~ Fernando Savater
I saw a lot of people asking who am I dating. It's not that I ever wanted to hide it from anybody, but it's not something to be talked about.
~ Shweta Tripathi
Who cares about people's personal lives? I mean, honestly. How are you then able to disappear into a role?
~ Lee Pace
I'm not going into personal details of meetings I have with anybody, be it John Howard or President Bush or President Putin or President Yeltsin, in years gone by, whoever it may be, I'm not going into that.
~ Alexander Downer
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.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I do not interact much with people whom I don't know.
~ Daisy Shah