Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
Jean Cocteau
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Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.
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JEAN COCTEAU Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
JEAN COCTEAU Tact is knowing how far to go too far.
JEAN COCTEAU Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go to far.
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GENE WILDER The essential in daring is to know how far one can go too far
JEAN COCTEAU We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.
JIM ROHN We don't know how far they may go,
ISLAM KARIMOV How will you know how far to go if you do not occasionally go too far?
RON JEFFRIES Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.
CRIMETHINC. You can't know how far you can go, unless yo try to go too far...
AQARIYA NEWS MAGAZINE You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.
JIM ROHN Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. ELIOT Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. ELIOT People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?
MARY HART Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Only tho...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
THEODOR ADORNO We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them
DORA RUSSELL All movements go too far.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jea...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU It may have gone a little too far, too fast,
MARC KLEE I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
MAE WEST Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.
MANDY HALE We want to see how far we can go with this.
KYLE FISCHER How far should a person go in the name of true love?
NICHOLAS SPARKS Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
BERNARD MALAMUD Zero-tolerance laws clearly go too far.
MARTHA ROWE MITCHELL They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
JOHANN VON GOETHE They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Potentially, we can go very far. But we can't look too far ahead because in our section, anybody can...
GEORGE WILLIAMS Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
FRANK WEDEKIND We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUST They go in debt too far right off the bat, and they have financial problems.
DON CAMPBELL We gave them far too many opportunities to show how good they are.
ANDY ROBINSON Short films don't go too far.
MATTHEW MCGRORY Remember as you travel through life, no matter how far you go...
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JASON SILVA There are too many opportunities in New York. We can't live too far away.
BRUCE ZHANG In the longer term, you can't go too far wrong holding oil stocks with these prices.
GEOFF LANGHAM How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
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ALLY CARTER Our party may have swung too far right at various times.
ED GILLESPIE Good luck, ... Don't go too far. Don't get lost.
CHAI VANG I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
MAE WEST During the recruiting process, that (Matt) may be as far as I can go in my vocabulary.
ERIC ETCHISON We asked ourselves, how did this happen? We were too far removed from the daily operations.
CAROLYN SMITH Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI The role that people play in your life can determine how far you can go.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends n...
SEAN ROSS Go live in a trailer far, far away. That's the bottom line.
DAVID BAUER Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go
BERNARD MALAMUD The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of ...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I ha...
MICHAEL ENDE Time spent musing on how far you have to go would be better spent thinking about how far you have co...
JIM GENOVESE Don't let yourself be discouraged by how far you have to go, but be encouraged by how far you have c...
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SPENCER GRAMMER We got too far behind.
MIKE HARGROVE With competitive pricing and ample market knowledge, we think our goal of becoming one of the bigges...
CARLO VILLARAZA No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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CLIFF YERKES We want to see how far this ... will go, we want to get the most impact.
DERWICK PAIGE You'll be amazed how far your money will go,
RICHARD WRIGHT True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell;
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How far your eyes may pierce, i cannot tell; striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To go too far is as bad as to fall short.
CONFUCIUS I always hesitate to go too far (ahead on the schedule).
TERRY STOTTS Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth
ALBERT CAMUS I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
TARAJI P. HENSON Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wishing on that far away star, how far removed we truly are.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
OSCAR WILDE I just go out there and fight for every point, and then we see how far I can go.
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.
MADAME DE SABLé Youth should heed the older-wittedWhen they say, don't go too far --Now their sins are all committed...
WILHELM BUSCH I really don't know how far he will go in the game but he has a massive future.
BRIAN MCCLENNAN We've got a very precise idea of how far we can go and what we can budge on.
JIM BUESSING The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to d...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER In life, one must gage how far one has come, where one is at, and how much more there is to go.
JAIME CONTRERAS In this case the judge simply went too far.
ED BRASS I read the Sunday Telegraph stories. They're not too far off what may be happening.
RICHARD BRANSON You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward
JAMES THURBER Knowing your ignorance is far better than knowing what you know! Understanding the path and will of ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm not quite sure ... I wouldn't want to go too far into that.
TYLER SARGENT But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far ...
ANN BRASHARES We all in the same boat brother. You rock it too far to the right you fall in the waddah, rock it to...
HUDDIE LEDBETTER He was tired and we thought it was too far. We're just going to have to go for it.
MARSHALL OVERLEY I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
WILMA RUDOLPH It's nice. It's not dangerous, you go far and not too high. I like normal jumps. I like far jumps bu...
JANICA KOSTELIC Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.
EDWIN A. ROBINSON Youth sees too far to see how near it is / To seeing farther.
EDWIN A. ROBINSON We had some communication problems on how far to go down the court. We just made a little adjustment...
PAM ADAMS He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart ...
CHANAKYA Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next
HERBERT HOOVER We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies wi...
CHARLES DE GAULLE You have travel too far to quit, may the grace of faith, keep you going in the forward motion to rea...
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