Quotes About Judgment

A more capable cat is never impressed by a less capable cat.

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

If you turn into a hideous monster and I am sent to slay you, I will remember this and make it as painless as I can, out of respect for you.

The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.

I don't know the good or the evil of the thing. That's something that only you mortals worry about.

Shame, child, is for those who fail to live up to the ideal of what they believe they should be.

hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut.

Uriel smiled. Collin, like the others, is wit me because he is not yet prepared to face what comes next. When he is, he'll take that step. For now, he is not. When you say what comes next , what do you mean, exactly? The part involving words like forever , eternity , and judgment . Oh, I said. What Comes Next.

Man sees faces. Sees skin. Flags. Membership lists. Files. God sees hearts.

Do you remember the hardest lesson of power?" "Knowing when not to use it?

It's easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back.

Susan smiled at me, giving Molly the Female Once-Over—a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?

It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .

He was wrong, that doesn't make him a villian. That makes him an asshole.

Then this, Grimm said, is what I believe professional inquisitors refer to as a clue. In my considered judgment as an occasional inquisitor for the Spirearch, Benedict said, I believe you may be correct.

In combat situations, your choices can be judged based only against what you knew at the time. To expect anything more of a soldier is to demand that he or she be superhuman. Which seems, to me, unreasonable.

see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them," I told him. "It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Heroines in dramas, Bridget felt, really ought to have more sense.

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False gods!" she cried, her blue eyes blazing as she stared at the Red King and the Lords of Outer Night. "Pretenders! Usurpers of truth! Destroyers of faith, of families, of lives, of children! For your crimes against the Mayans, against the peoples of the world, now will you answer! Your time has come! Face judgment Almighty!

Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that of his enemies.

He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, "You are an untidy person." I put my hand over my heart, grinning at him. "Ow.

Life's easier when you can write off others as monsters, as demons, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared. The thing is, you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.

My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.