#discretion

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#indicated #making #mistake #much #never

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#lover #without

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#discretion #fluency #great #orator #our

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. ↗

— Hannah More

#discretion #duty #interferes

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

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

Bootie Grant Glover! You do amaze me!" Mem stared at her sister. "Do I understand this? You're giving me permission to engage in a romantic tryst?" "Certainly not!" Bootie pulled to her full diminished height. "I'm merely saying if disaster strikes, I won't abandon you. ↗

— Maggie Osborne

#permission #sisters #tryst #men

Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #paraphrased #valor #harry-dresden

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined. ↗

— Brian Baird

#annual #balance #budget #combined #contradictory

If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#buy #car #costs #discretionary #economic