Quotes About Judgment

Înainte m? sim?eam stingher,chiar panicat,când vedeam o femeie dichisit?,în rochie de bal,dar acum mi-e de-a dreptul groaz?,v?d în ea ceva periculos pentru b?rba?i,ceva ce contravine legilor ?i îmi vine s? chem poli?ia,s? cer protec?ie împotriva pericolului,s? cer ca obiectul periculos s? fie luat de acolo,îndep?rtat.

That's how it is, dear fellow. Fate looks for a head. But we are always judging, 'that's not well—that's not right!' Our luck is like water in a dragnet: you pull at it and it bulges, but when you've drawn it out it's empty! That's how it is.

for him all the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class—all the girls in the world except her, and those girls with all sorts of human weaknesses, and very ordinary girls: the other class—she alone, having no weaknesses of any sort and higher than all humanity.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

It is very true that one cannot always go by the principles of Marxism in deciding whether to reject or to accept a work of art. A work of art should, in the first place, be judged by its own law, that is, by the law of art. But Marxism alone can explain why and how a given tendency in art has originated in a given period of history; in other words, who it was who made a demand for such an artistic form and not for another, and why.

Contempt says: "You should disappear as such a being as you have shown yourself to be -- failing, weak, flawed, and dirty. Get of my sight: Disappear!

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

Do not dress in those rags for me I know you are not poor;

We unfortunately seem to be unconsciously biased against those in the society who come out on the bottom.

We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.

We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how He can be so patient with the pious. —GEORGE MACDONALD

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Che popolo», pensò con un disprezzo venato di gelosia: e che in qualunque posto del mondo, là dove l'orlo di una gonna saliva di qualche centimetro sul ginocchio, nel raggio di trenta metri c'era sicuramente un siciliano, almeno uno, a spiare il fenomeno.

Dear Commendatory Roomers, you have no idea how many people-serious, decently behaved, cultivated people- go looking for the company of whores

Ecco che lei torna alle parole che decidono, alle parole che dividono: migliore, peggiore; giusto, ingiusto; bianco, nero. E tutto invece non è che una caduta, una lunga caduta: come nei sogni...

Don't trust anyone who keep telling you what's wrong with you,