Descretion Quotes & Sayings

The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan. — Lionel Murphy

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others. — Rick Warren

Rejection hurts so much because we take it as a damning judgement passed not merely on our physical appeal but on our entire selves, and by extension (at this stage we're crying into our pillow, as something by Bach or Leonard Cohen plays on the stereo) on our very right to exist. 2. — Alain De Botton

That Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me — Alexandre Dumas

Truth is no prostitute, that throws herself away upon those who do not desire her; she is rather so coy a beauty that he who sacrifices everything to her cannot even then be sure of her favour. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've ... um ... entertained his wife. — Jojo Moyes

Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do — Paul Meyer

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it. — Eddie Cahill

All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching. — Bobby Hull

Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful. — W. H. Auden

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension. — Sarah Wayne Callies

I feel very lucky that I was part of that whole scene in the '60s and '70s. I love looking at the photographs because everyone was young, and they were so gorgeous to look at. — Pattie Boyd

It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in so much that seems so counter to what the world is like. Many of the things that I'm going to describe make so much more common sense than these notions that seem counter to what ones eyes see every day. — Joseph Stiglitz

Her smile could've broken glass. — Colum McCann