Top 39 Discretionary Quotes
#1. People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.
Brian Sandoval
#2. Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.
Alexa Von Tobel
#3. We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
Thomas Paine
#4. 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
#5. Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.
Tony Alessandra
#6. My giving is discretionary, but keeping the business going is not.
Michael Hintze
#7. I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.
David Brooks
#8. 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
#9. It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.
Craig L. Thomas
#10. What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?
Anne Lamott
#11. Trust, of necessity, is discretionary when dealing with vampyres." -- The Slayer Prince
Elizabeth Brockie
#12. There is always the potential for a central bank to engage in discretionary monetary policy and to break the one-to-one link between changes in foreign reserves and changes in the money supply.
Steve Hanke
#13. Real wealth is discretionary time. Money is simply fuel for your life. You can always make another dollar, but you can't make another minute. Don't let the pursuit of money erode your wealth.
Alan Weiss
#14. Nature takes the decision first, man agrees, reconciles, modifies, refutes, contradicts etc., subsequently. It means the application of reason, the discretionary power of a man, only happens afterwards!
Thiruman Archunan
#15. And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short.
David Price
#16. Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
Gary Ross
#18. For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
Jane Austen
#19. The point is that this is not only for the rich; it is for those who prioritize healthy, naturally raised food over other discretionary spending.
Tim Young
#20. 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
#21. Positive reinforcement generates more behavior than is minimally required. We call this discretionary effort, and its presence in the workplace is the only way an organization can maximize performance.
Aubrey Daniels
#22. We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.
Martin O'Malley
#23. We had a strong back-to-school season and discretionary spending on low-priced items has trended higher. These are good indications for Halloween, which typically sets the tone for the rest of the holiday shopping season.
Richard Hastings
#24. The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.
Nicola Sturgeon
#25. You're walking around, Sam, with a weapon you don't know how to use. That's worse than walking around knowing how to use a weapon and not having one. A man with a weapon he doesn't know how to use is likely to have it shoved where the sun does not shine.
Terry Pratchett
#26. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.
Abu Dawood
#27. I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
Grace Jones
#28. When you can look into the face of another human being and you have enough light in you to recognize your brother or you sister. Until then it is night, and darkness is still with us.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#29. I sprung you because I've got a message for you"
"doesn't your family own a cell phone company?"
"only a little one
Ally Carter
#30. Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.
Ivan Doig
#32. Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell Phillips
#33. All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking
Robert Hass
#35. I love cranberry juice, but I'm not a coffee drinker - as a Mormon, I avoid caffeine.
Donny Osmond
#36. My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.
Lasse Hallstrom
#37. But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.
Peabo Bryson
#39. A Titus Andronicus catalog of threats beat at the door. They haunt my nightmares still.
David Mitchell
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