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Quotes About Judgment

We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
people want you to do what they think
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Funny how we get so adjusted to exactly what we should see on every human body we encounter.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
But I picked it out. I didn't want you to think I had terrible taste in movies." "But you hadn't seen it. If you'd seen it nine times and really wanted me to see it the tenth time with you, and I hated it, I might think you had bad taste in movies. Which isn't the most terrible thing in the world, by the way. But you were just guessing. Anybody can guess wrong.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
It would be easier if people were just good or bad and that was that.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Sometimes we have to own our decisions. Good or bad." "Right," Allie said. "I'm getting that. I thought I got that all along, my whole life. But it turns out I just
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
the best way to judge what a man will do is by looking at what he's done in the past.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
My father taught me not to look down on nobody, not to think bad about nobody. Except assholes. He said it's OK to be prejudiced against assholes, because nobody has to be an asshole. It's voluntary.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
nobody does anything wrong until the moment they do.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
As long as I live, I'm never going to do what they're doing. I made myself a promise. And now I'm making the promise to you. I'm never going to judge somebody I don't know. And if somebody is accused of something in the newspaper or on TV, I'm going to remember that maybe he did it or maybe he didn't. I wasn't there, so I don't know.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
if you meet someone you don't like, or who doesn't treat you right, try to reserve judgment, because you don't know what that person's going through, and it's probably not so much about you at all.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Not that Bella wasn't pretty. Grace thought she was. But she wasn't thin.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
He's not like the other cops. What does it mean, that I thought that? That I hated him so much?" "That you're human?" "Isn't that really bad, though? I mean, what does that say about me?" I sighed. "Considering you just saw yourself doing it . . . made that observation all on your own, at age thirteen . . . I'd say that puts you quite a bit ahead of most of the adults I know.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
We both know a strange truth about the world: that people judge you by your most controversial half. If you meet a person, Raymond, who is prejudiced, this person will not think to himself, 'This Raymond has a white half, and I will respect that half of him.' People judge you only by the half they don't like. If my family had stayed in Germany, they would not have put half of me in a camp or sent half of me to the gas chamber. No. I would have been completely killed.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Therefore, in accordance with our laws, I sentence you, Jenna of Saura, to death." Her
~ Catherine Spangler
If Russians knew how to read they would write me off.
~ Catherine the Great
You can be a murderous tyrant and the world will remember you fondly but fuck one horse and you will be a horse fucker for all eternity.
~ Catherine the Great
He sighed. 'Phrenology is where the size and shape of your skull determines whether you dunnit or not.
~ Catherine Webb
I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to forgive beautiful women, especially when they lay a sorrowful tale before you like a sugar-dusted meal. It does not mean they deserve forgiveness.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Never assume that a woman is wicked simply because she is ugly and behaves unfavorably towards you. It is unbecoming behavior for a Prince.
~ Catherynne M. Valente