#discretion

Philosophy is nothing but discretion. ↗

— John Selden

#nothing #philosophy

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#discretion #intimate #justice #life #nothing

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget. ↗

— John Spratt

#big #budget #care #category #discretionary

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#discretion #judgment #occasions #required #upon

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case. ↗

— Andrew Thomas

#discretion #finding #individual #judicial #judicial system

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#charitable #commit #courses #design #discretion

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#discretion #secret #trust #truth #woman

In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#bring #budget #call #category #decade

But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don't have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don't want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. I don't care if no one thinks me brave or hardy. I have no concern at all that I did not have whatever it is I should have had to take a dive out of a plane or off a building. None of that matters to me in the least. ↗

— Jenny Diski

#bravery #discretion #experiences #tourism #travel

Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to draw so near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she cannot truly like him, or not like him with true affection! If she did, she need not coin her smiles so lavishly, flash her glances so unremittingly, manufacture airs so elaborate, graces so multitudinous. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#love #romance #woman #love