Quotes About Judgment

You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should.

Regardless of how you feel, don't let your emotions lead you to wrong decisions

Thank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously

That's what got her, of course. That everyone thought it so unbelievable that she could possibly attract a man like him. It shouldn't upset her because it was true. She couldn't. Not in this world, in this lifetime. Yet she didn't appreciated everyone else acting as if they were the most improbable twosome since Quasimodo hit on Esmeralda.

The maxim had often helped him, at any rate, and even saved him from making some wrong decisions, because he had rarely made a mistake when he had followed his own judgment alone. He put a piece of paper in front of each of us and dictated: "Etiam si omnes—ego non! It's from the Gospel According to St. Matthew

Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.

She never puts on any weight, you'll notice that's often true of selfish women.

Privilege is something else. Privilege is a judgment. Privilege is an opinion. Privilege is an accusation.

About the cathouse: the notion that an accepted element in the social order is a whorehouse goes hand in hand with the woman on a pedestal.

To do without self-respect, on the other hand, is to be an unwilling audience of one to an interminable documentary that details one's failings, both real and imagined, with fresh footage spliced in for every screening.

Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane.

It's easy to blame someone else for our failings...

She preferred keeping her mouth shut and appearing a fool to opening it and removing the doubt.

I get so sick of people asking me, "Do you work?" Of course I work! I've got five children under ten—I work twenty four hours a day! But of course they mean, "Do you work for pay, outside your home?" Sometimes I hear myself say, "No, I don't work," and I think, "That's a complete lie!

But any religion would be found lacking if judged solely by its human servants.

Watch: (1) You do something nasty to me. (2) I hate you. (3) You find it uncomfortable to be hated. (4) You think how nice it would be if I didn't hate you. (5) You decide I ought not to hate you because hate is bad. (6) Good people don't hate. (7) Because I hate you I am a bad person. (8) It is not what you did to me that makes me hate you, it is my own bad nature. I—not you—am the cause of my hating you.

It is not, Ianthe, a priest's function to be a bottomless well of woolly uncritical forgiveness. That would only devalue virtue.

Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.

I've always recognized that look – that look of sanctified contempt adopted by the righteous.

You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.

Everyone will think I'm ugly. Tik Tok smiled. That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.