Quotes About Judgment

I think great novels free us into an understanding that the tension between true/not true might in fact be liveable, might not have to be judged and immediately neutralized in the court of public opinion or in the oppressive conservatism of our social lives.

Maybe you could say she was overly precise sometimes, not especially creative, or lacking in soul.

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he is a saint or they are not telling the whole story.

Keista, kaip mes smerkiame kitus, užmirš? vargan? savo b?t?, kol j? netenkame, kai juos iš m?s? atima mirtis. Atima, nes jie niekada mums nepriklaus?...

Pasakyk, kuo didžiuojiesi, ir aš pasakysu, ko tau tr?ksta. Tai kasdienin? m?s? duona.. Neišman?lis dažnai prisistato kaip žinovas, žmogžudys - kaip pagailos vertas žmogus, nusid?jelis - kaip šventeiva, lupikautojas - kaip nusižemin?s žmogus, storžievis - kaip elegantas, o silpnaprotis - kaip intelektualas

Some of these wall-eyed fellers who look jest as if they was walkin' in the shadow of Christ himself, right down the sunny road, now they can think of things en' do things that are really hell-bent.

Once he had said to her that a man should never be judged by the result of his labors, but by the nature of his effort.

Good and evil began to seem incomprehensibly blended in her judgment. It was her belief that evil could not come forth from good; yet here was a murderer who dwarfed in gentleness, patience, and love any man she had ever known.

A moral compass does not cease to function because one's surroundings are new and strange, or else it is no compass at all.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it

Lonely people are terrible snobs about one another, I've found. They're afraid that consorting with their own kind will compound their freakishness.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships…pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her…She had found a jewel inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around. But she had been set in the market-place to sell.

So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead. Not the dead of sick and ailing with friends at the pillow and the feet. She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgment.

Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

They's mighty particular how dese dead folks goes tuh judgment," Tea Cake observed to the man working next to him. "Look lak dey think God don't know nothin' 'bout de Jim Crow law.

They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.

Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now.

For what can excuse a man in the eyes of other men for lack of strength?

Now, Pheoby, don't feel too mean wid de rest of 'em 'cause dey's parched up from not knowin' things.

Ah betcha you wants some dressed up dude dat got to look at de sole of his shoe everytime he cross de street tuh see whether he got enough leather dere tuh make it across.

most of 'em goes to church so they'll be sure to rise in Judgment.

Lot's wife lookee back and turn to a pillar of salt and she be dere till Judgment Day. Poor Cudjo, I no lookee back. I pressee forward.

Unless you see de fur, a mink skin ain't no different from a coon hide.

When he paraded his possessions hereafter, they would not consider the two together. They'd look with envy at the things and pity the man that owned them.