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  • As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.

    Views   Flow   Different  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

    Men   Mouths   Discreet  
    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing
  • The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep.

  • I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.

    Eye   People   Born  
  • Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?

    Cat   Able   Silent  
  • Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

  • If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.

    Grateful   Heart   Wine  
    Letter to the diplomat Henry Savile, 1674.
  • While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]

    Fool   Advise   Discreet  
  • Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

    Eye   Ears   Discreet  
  • I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

    Eye   Keys   Personality  
  • Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

    Witty   Flower   Giving  
  • All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.

  • Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

    Running   Tilt   Weapons  
    "The complete poetical works of Alexander Pope".
  • Bob Corker was not the inside man that, certainly, Senator [Jeff] Sessions was. And he doesn`t telegraph what`s going on. He`s been much more discreet about that.

    Men   Bob   Inside Man  
    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

  • There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.

    Pain   Powerful   Emotion  
    Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Britney's a very beautiful human being. After I worked with her, I realized that there was a reason why she was the most popular pop artist over so many other pop artists at that time who were more talented, had better voices. And it was because of her heart, her soulShe had the most amazing energy and was always positive and a very discreet person. We were young, too, and got to make a movie about three friends on a road trip. It was so much fun!

    Beautiful   Fun   Heart  
  • if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

    Lying   Drinking   Men  
    Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.
  • Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

  • A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.185
  • Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

    Hero   Perfect   Brave  
  • Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.

  • Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.583
  • I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

  • Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

    Judith Martin (1984). “Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children”, Viking Pr
  • I was so disappointed [with movie Forsaken], but maybe I hadn't talked enough with the director. I don't know. But, Kiefer worked it out. Kiefer took it and re-edited it. I don't know whether he talks about that. He's probably more discreet than I am because Jon is a friend of his. Now, it fulfills what I was hoping for, and what we were working on and doing.

    Source: collider.com
  • When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?

    Suicide   Fashion   Men  
    David Hume (1799). “ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL”, p.60
  • When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is working with are about discreet, notated music that someone else will play.

    Thinking   Play   Issues  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

    Art   Names   Magic  
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.159, University of Georgia Press
  • I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.

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