Quotes About Judgment

Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've no business questioning the lifestyles of wine-makers or anyone else.

He quirked an eyebrow briefly, slightly, in such a way that no one afterwards might be able to safely accuse him of having done it. Sei knew the look. Names are meaningless, plosives and breath, but those who liked the slope of her waist often made much of hers, which denoted purity, clarity—as though it had any more in the way of depth than others. They wondered, all of them, if she really was pure, as pure as her name announced her to be, all white banners and hymeneal grace.

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.

They snickered behind her back in tones that sent up prickly hedges all around their tight huddles of lace dresses and ribboned curls.

no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough

don't you dare judge me, it was four in the afternoon, and all cats know four in the afternoon is Twelfthnap, right after Teanap.

what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?

I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.

You can't blame a book for its story.

Rich girls aren't criminals, don't you know? They're just troubled, poor things.

Wait, go back to that Southern Baptist part," Julia said, interrupting, as she does. "Are you a born-again?" articulating her question as if she were asking me if I were really a headhunter or a Martian. "Yes," I said, "but I'm not an asshole. At least not theologically speaking.

Why does ignorance make you feel superior, Daphne? Laurel thinks.

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one...

So we blame ourselves for being too outspoken or too proud or too ambitious.

I'm sure there are even some kind guys nice in here, but . . .

O let it be enough what thou hast done, When spotted deaths ran arm'd through every street, With poison'd darts, which not the good could shun, The speedy could outfly, or valiant meet. The living few, and frequent funerals then, Proclaim'd thy wrath on this forsaken place: And now those few who are return'd agen Thy searching judgments to their dwellings trace. From Annus Mirabilis, The Year of Wonders, 1666, by John Dryden

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

Being irretrievably damned had its advantages:

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

Intelligent decision making entails knowing what tool to use for what problem.

There is strong evidence that intuitions are based on simple, smart rules that take into account only some of the available information.

according to rationality norms requiring only internal coherence, one can be perfectly consistent, and yet wrong about everything

The most popular of these numbers is called "value at risk." No judgment or understanding of the assets is necessary; all you have to do is look at the number. Yet the world of money is an uncertain world, not one of known risks.