Quotes About Judgment

Sometimes what we see as a loss turns out in the end to be a gain, and sometimes a gain is a loss. I try not to be too swift to pass judgment on any situation, preferring instead to be patient and take the long view because I believe that in the end all things work together for good.

But then Vega snapped in a loud, clear voice, "My guess is they clicked 'like' because there's no 'I fucked her' button.

Clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use should, we are, in effect, saying "wrong." Either we are wrong or we were wrong or we are going to be wrong. I don't think we need more wrongs in our life. We need to have more freedom of choice.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were.

So much more comforting to see bad in others; gives us all sorts of excuses for our own bad behavior. But good? No, only really remarkable people see the good in others.

Almost invariably people expected that if you were a good person you shouldn't meet a bad end, that only the deserving are killed and certainly only the deserving are murdered. However well hidden and subtle, there was a sense that a murdered person had somehow asked for it. That's why the shock when someone they knew to be kind and good was a victim. There was a feeling that surely there had been a mistake.

She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were.

Maybe that's what old men are for. To make decisions that no young man can." He was watching Gamache closely. "Or should have to.

People instinctively let down their guard when they saw a limp, an illness, a flaw in someone else. Not out of compassion but because it made them feel superior. Stronger. Those people, Gamache knew, did not always last long. It was not a useful instinct.

he'd come to agree with Sister Prejean that no one was as bad as the worst thing they'd done.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

Thus human courts acquit the strong, And doom the weak, as therefore wrong.

I've realised that anyone can be a critic but it takes a remarkable person to offer praise.

But he'd come to agree with Sister Prejean that no one was as bad as the worst thing they'd done.

Myrna understood how damaging it was to compare pain. To dismiss hurt just because it wasn't the worst.

Gamache wondered how low the bar was set when all a man had to do to attract a woman was not smell like decomposing bears.

Armand Gamache wondered whether CC de Poitiers was at that very moment trying to explain herself to a perplexed God and two very angry seals.

But Armand always said people react differently to death, and it was folly to judge anyone and double folly to judge what people do when faced with sudden, violent death. Murder. They weren't themselves.

I've realized that anyone can be a critic but it takes a remarkable person to offer praise.

Clara saw what others couldn't. Like that little boy in The Sixth Sense, but instead of seeing ghosts, Clara saw good. Which was itself pretty scary. So much more comforting to see bad in others; gives us all sorts of excuses for our own bad behavior. But good? No, only really remarkable people see the good in others.

An Asshole Saint," said Stephen. "Not the first. I think most were, weren't they? In fact, she wouldn't even be the first around here.