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Quotes About Judgment

And another thing," added Mademoiselle Bénet. "You must not make the mistake of saying to yourself, 'All French people are like that.' There are bad people and good people in my country – as there are in every country under the sun.
~ D.E. Stevenson
Oh yes," agreed Tom. "But he saw you arrive. He saw you walk into the hotel with a knapsack on your back so he didn't know you were an important person until I told him. If you had arrived in a big automobile with a great deal of luggage he would have been nice to you from the beginning." This was not what Will meant, but he had to leave it.
~ D.E. Stevenson
If strangers see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they don't know who you are. And if your friends see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they know who you are.
~ D.E. Stevenson
His fellow travellers took him for an Englishman and did not mince their words, and their words were all the more weighty and significant because they were perfectly calm. They did not rant and rave against Germany, they did not hate her, they merely judged her and condemned her as they would have judged and condemned any thief or any murderer of innocent men. They discussed the whole affair sanely and dispassionately in a manner that made his blood run cold.
~ D.E. Stevenson
Query – Why do people with no children of their own seem to think the shocking behaviour of other people's offspring a fit subject for mirth?)
~ D.E. Stevenson
When you're very young you take people as you find them. It's only when you've had experience that you begin to measure and weigh.
~ D.E. Stevenson
She had made a fool of the whole thing by asking old Durnet and Mrs. Goldsmith. The former was practically an imbecile in Mr. Bulmer's opinion—a good many people were practically imbeciles in Mr. Bulmer's opinion.
~ D.E. Stevenson
If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.
~ Kiran Desai
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Don't judge my dad on the one thing he did wrong and not on all the things he did right. For such a long time, he was such a huge role model for kids and such a positive thing. That's the one thing about this business is you get tormented for the one thing that is negative versus all the great things you have done.
~ Brooke Hogan
You can definitely notice a girl who has confidence versus one who's thinking, 'How are they judging me?'
~ Coco Rocha
People think that, somehow, size makes you uncoordinated or incompetent. There is a lot of size discrimination out there, and I see the difference in the way people treated me when I was 360 pounds versus how they treat me when I'm 290 - from the industry to day-to-day people on the street.
~ Omar Benson Miller
I think I might not be the best vertical athlete, but I think I'm quicker than people give me credit for. That was the biggest knock on me coming out of college.
~ Klay Thompson
Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.
~ Shelley Long
Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice.
~ Kevin Gates
I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.
~ Neil Patrick Harris
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
When you start, you have no brain; you are a kid. It's fine. But then I started to be scared. I was scared of judgment - not as a dancer, but as a person - and I was really uncomfortable with people. And it lasted for a very long time.
~ Sylvie Guillem
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
~ Van Wyck Brooks
I think people expect me to dress a bit like Veronica from 'Shameless,' in vest tops and denim skirts.
~ Maxine Peake
The civilian wants to respect what the veteran has gone through. The veteran wants to protect memories that are painful and sacred to him from outside judgment.
~ Phil Klay
To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of each to judge for itself of the extent of the power allotted to its share, and to protect itself in its exercise, is what, in reality, is meant by a division of power.
~ John C. Calhoun
The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.
~ David Hare
I am vibe oriented and am able to read people right most of the time.
~ Ananya Birla