I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.
Quotes about circumspect (10 Quotes)
Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
It's very circumspect and very shady. They don't want certain people there at Planning Committee meetings and they don't want certain people voting.
It's been foreigners looking for yield that has driven the U.S. curve to flatten. The market will interpret this inversion as more circumspect than previous ones.
Unlike in the 1980s and 1990s, this time the Japanese are going to be more circumspect and invest in their end markets, which would include Europe and the United States.
I think the disadvantage is that the Senate is moving as fast as it is. With the White House releasing documents as slowly as it has been doing, we would think that the entire Senate would want to be more circumspect.
President Clinton was more circumspect. I think we ought to just wait and see what they do, ... One way or the other, it will be a historic decision that we will live with forever.
No director anywhere from this point on would want to put themselves through this kind of ordeal that the directors at Disney just went through for eight years. Now boards realize they must be more independent and circumspect.
Right now it seems like the uncertainty would make senators more circumspect with Roberts.