Quotes About Judgment

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

I can't believe we still have the Miss America pageant. This is America! Where we're not supposed to judge people based on how they look; we're supposed to judge people based on how much money they make.

Good questions can initiate a surprising wend toward an answer that is neither right nor wrong, but that can be judged as strong or weak or honest or dishonest on the basis of the steps that brought the answerer there. It is a built thing. Sometimes what it builds is bullshit, but the bullshit can be so well-constructed that it has integrity, a pattern integrity. This can be worth admiring.

No one was around to publicly shame me, but I am perfectly able to shame myself. And worse -- around myself it is not a matter of appearing to be stupid and heartless; instead I confirm to myself that I am definitively one or the other.

I said I had a three-year-old with broken fingers, and you said, 'Maybe he owed somebody money.'" "Yes

Nicht einmal der Teufel kann so scharfe Augen haben wie Nachbarn.

Alguien que lo mire desde fuera -todo el mundo es mirado desde fuera por los demás- siente siempre una cosa mejor o peor que aquel que conoce el asunto, trátese de felicidad o de desgracia, penas de amor o "decadencia artística".

Of course he [God] will forgive me; that's his business.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Once he had a foot in the door he explained, "It's not for me to make moral judgments. I'm a businessman. I deal with people as they are, not as they ought to be." "Speaking

Go back to your house then, and see what happiness you find there.' 'It has nothing to do with happiness.' 'It is true that marriage seems often to have little to do with happiness. But who am I to judge? I have never been married.

I looked so preppy you'd guess my tramp stamp was a monogram

There's nothing nicer than unexpected appreciation. Hallmark doesn't make a card for everything, so sometimes we make a judgment call. No, I don't mean texting. My motto is: if you're grateful, get a pen.

Do we identify with a criminal in that we too secretly long to be judged? Popularly, being 'judgemental' is ill thought of and resented. But what if we want our deeds, our natures, our very souls to be summed up and evaluated? A line to be drawn under our acts to date? A punishment declared, amends made, the slate wiped clean? A born-again Christian, trying to explain his new sense of freedom, once said to me, "All my debts are paid".

judges are men who in the cool of the evening undo work that better men do in the heat of the day.

But does psychological sophistication override a sense that some actions are just plain bad? How much of human behaviour, in the end, can one understand?

From now until the end of the trial, every time [the jury] entered the court, Farquharson would spring to his feet in the dock and remain standing until they were seated—a protocol that seemed to say my fate is in your hands .

military court (consejo de guerra)

It is light that dismantles each moment, I had thought then. Light proves it one thing or another. Darkness does not judge.

Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.

When you are learning how to do something, you do not have to worry about whether or not you are good at it. But when you have done something, have learned how to do it, you are not safe any more. Being an expert opens you up to judgement.

Being a novice is safe. When you are learning how to do something, you do not have to worry about whether or not you are good at it. But when you have done something, have learned how to do it, you are not safe any more. Being an expert opens you up to judgement.