Quotes About Judgment

Fornicating is like parenting: no matter how you do it, you have the guilty sense that somewhere other people are doing it more correctly.

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How come Angela drives a Porsche and you're driving a ten-year-old Volvo?' Kate asked as they drove away. 'I don't have self-esteem issues,' Amanda said

But then, he calls many things mad that he does not care for. Perhaps that is easier than accepting them.

Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard.

Of course everyone's a person. But sometimes we act as if people were only labels. Like deaf, or blind, or lame. We forget about the person and only see the word.

If you're sorry for her, that means you're putting yourself above her. Anything can be terrible if we make it terrible, or if we let other people tell us how terrible it is.

According to Schafran, many women, including women judges and jurors, "avoid acknowledging their own vulnerability by blaming the victim. This distancing mechanism operates particularly in non-stranger rape cases, because it is in acknowledging the likelihood of these crimes that women jurors feel most at risk.

similarity in experience does not necessarily make a juror sympathetic . . . [but] may lead to less objective and more harsh responses.

Looking at a friend who has had a face lift is like reading a book with half the pages ripped out.

I truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls.

Religions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else's stinks.

It wasn't the country, the girl, the teacher who let us down; it was our judgment, and whatever led us to expect too much of the country, the girl or the teacher in the first place. That was why it became harder and harder to condemn anyone: wouldn't God himself, faced with a wounded murderer, feel somewhat at a loss?

told Louis one sunlit afternoon that the essence of the Dalai Lama's teaching for non-Buddhists was contained in the line we'd read at school, from Hamlet: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Lo sapevi, peccare non significa fare il male: non fare il bene, questo significa peccare.

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

il subissait la dictature de l'apparence.

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.

Baudelaire, ici encore, se montre beaucoup plus radical que Flaubert ; notamment à propos de George Sand : bête, lourde, bavarde, « elle a dans les idées morales la même profondeur de jugement […] que les concierges et les filles entretenues » ; « théologienne du sentiment », elle

Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.

One is often guilty by being too just.

Judging by the virtues expected of a servant, does your Excellency know many masters who would be worthy valets?

It is not things that trouble us," as Epictetus said, "but our judgment about things

I cannot judge a country. I fall in love with the people and the place each time I visit a new place.