Quotes About Discretion

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

We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

Sen bu olay? s?kça anlat?yorsundur, dedim. ... Hay?r, dedi, bunu anlatm?yorum...Her ÅŸey herkese anlat?lmaz...

Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.

When asked what he did for a living, Dave would answer, "I work for local government," because if he said he was a cop, the mood instantly stiffened.

It was the way he lived. He could walk out of that building at a moment's notice and leave behind no personal trace.

I believe the words "meat" and "treated with ammonia" should never occur in the same paragraph—much less the same sentence. Unless you're talking about surreptitiously disposing of a corpse.

The Duchess of Omnium was not the most discreet woman in the world. That was admitted by her best friends, and was the great sin alleged against her by her worst enemies. In her desire to say sharp things, she would say the sharp thing in the wrong place, and in her wish to be good-natured she was apt to run into offences.

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

We also have our diplomatic secrets

Se necesita cierta dósis de selección y de discreción al exhibir un efecto realista.

Just because you can, doesnt mean you should- Ash

I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent; her openness evoked discretion.

Colui che ha occhi per vedere e orecchi per sentire deve convincersi che nessun mortale sa mantenere un segreto: se le sue labbra sono serrate parlerà con la punta delle dita, il suo tradirsi trasuderà da ogni poro.

Our Father only resides in secret. Love should not go without modesty. True faith implies great discretion even over against itself. It is a secret between God and us in which we ourselves have almost no part.

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

Trust Jess to get engaged all discreetly and not say a word. I'd have run straight in, saying, Guess what? Look at my pebble ring!

Some things are private. I mean, we're grown-ups now. You don't share everything.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business.