Quotes About Judgment

He didn't sound particularly drunk, but Bob's a professional, so you never can tell.

You do have one prejudice though. I looked back at her again from under the brim of my hat. "You don't care about the living as much as you do the dead.

Small chains wound their way through the trigger guards with little bronze locks at the end of each row. It was like a chain gang for weapons. Some of them might be good, some of them might be bad, but there was no way to tell until somebody picked them up.

Justice." She smiled again, but it quickly faded. "I'm surprised by you, Walt. I never thought of you as . . . as a vengeful person." "Pharisaic, I think, is the word you're looking for.

I took a deep breath in an attempt not to be cruel, but some situations are deserving of it and some people, too.

I mean, I know people have always bin afraid of me. Kids specially, but old people too. Wary. They reckon I'm just half an animal with half a vote. That I'm no good. And I always used to think, why? They don't even know me. Nobody does. It never made sense. But then I realized, that's exactly why. That's all it is. It's so stupid, Charlie. But it means I don't hate them anymore.

It's better to shut up and appear stupid than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Because of our cultural conditioning, we not only think our actions are normal, the way everyone behaves; we also think what we do is right, the way everyone should behave. We therefore regard any behavior that is different from ours as wrong. Naturally, this puts cultural incidents into a whole new light.

Dr. Samuel Johnson discounted that notion: "Sir, a woman's composing is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.

Passing judgment on others for decisions that affect only themselves is absolutely noxious to any anarchist – not to mention it makes them less likely to experiment with the options you offer.

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

I came from México, but there's a lot of people here who, when they hear that, they think I crawled out of hell.

It's a shame about her, isn't it? But when I see you with her, the two of you seem to be having actual conversations. Like real people.

Señor, le presento a mi compañera de lecho y dígame si su interior no es tan hermoso como su exterior. Cristina de Suecia

If all that is said of me were true—nay, if half of it were true—I ought to be buried alive. Lola Montez,

Some of them were confused and angry, but given the same circumstances, I was convinced that I would have turned out just like them. It was the difference in where we were born, and to whom, that separated us---not the difference of who we were.

A fellow with the smallest mind is the one who is usually most willing to give someone a piece of it.

What they call witches - most of them are just regular people, nice people. The evil ones are those that hunt and hurt others, witch or no.

I happen to like Philippians 4:6, but I also don't like how it is used as a "clobber verse" to make anxious people feel like they're doing something wrong or, even worse, that there is something wrong about them. As with most clobber verses, in this situation it is being used out of context.

If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.

I you want people to judge you based on the inside, don't distract them from the outside.

bookshelves, which were full of what she thought of as "fake" books—the books were real enough but if Celia Baxter had read Thomas Pynchon or Samuel Beckett or even all—any!—of the Philip Roths and Saul Bellows lined in a row, she'd eat her mittens.

Are you thinking with your head or your dick?" Izaak demanded. "Asking for a friend. Asking because you're a dumbass and—

Thought you'd be older." He shook his head. "Hoped you'd be uglier.