Words matter. These are the best Discretion Quotes from famous people such as Anthea Butler, Emily Thornberry, William Godwin, Bill Dedman, Chris Grayling, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The decision to allow clergy to perform same-sex marriages at the discretion of the congregation poses challenges for seminaries training new pastors who come from denominations fundamentally opposed on biblical grounds to same-sex marriage.
For centuries, the courts took the view that preserving the discretion of the authorities trumped the rights of victims to hold them to account. It was because of the Human Rights Act that this began to change.
Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.
A ‘Globe’ examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.
Police on the street need the discretion to deal quickly and easily with routine misdemeanours which need to be recorded but need not take up court time – and where there is no doubt about guilt.
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs – these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Throughout the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
Discretion is the most important thing for a banker. That is the philosophy of the family… I mean, of the bank.
I’m the son of a doctor, and the key to working in the art world is to have boundaries of discretion.
I don’t know what’s hipper: to Facebook or to Twitter. I just know for me, personally, discretion never went out of style.
I think that the terms of the Affordable Care Act do give the states a fair amount of wiggle room and to do things as they see fit. The Affordable Care Act was not designed as some sort of one-size-fits-all solution from Washington. There’s lots of discretion given to the states.
Corruption is the by-product of discretion when there is scope for interpretation of policies.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism.
The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.
Managerial discretion can take many forms, some very subtle. Individual managers may run slack operations; they may pursue subgoals that are at variance with corporate purposes; they can engage in self-dealing.
By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.
I don’t know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, ‘Viewer discretion is advised’, then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, ‘Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.’
When it comes to revamping our bail laws, we can’t rely on judicial discretion alone.
Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
I don’t know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he’s dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in his discretion and drive. But Spielberg is calm. He’s this driven filmmaker and visionary. He really is.
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
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.
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you – it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
