Quotes About Judgment

We hate the ones who are spontaneously different, as if what they loved accused us of unhappiness.

we will never see our own bodies, existing for the eyes of others.

I want to sing in a voice you don't own, that you've never heard and judged.

For dinner, we had thin-crust pizza at a place called Panjo's. Daddy said that it was his favourite and that he ate there a lot. He said the last time he'd been there, he'd come with a woman from work, on a date. He said he'd liked her quite a bit until she took out a cigarette. The he realised she was stupid. I thought she was stupid, too, not because she smoked, but because she'd gone on a date with Daddy.

O medo de ser julgado pelos outros funciona como uma inibição paralisante.

Los quiteños salen a las calles y se acodan para gozar del espectáculo. La vieja está aterrada. Va a las ancas de una mula, amarrada, para que no se escape. Le han vestido con el escapulario de sambenito, le han cortado el pelo a rape, le han echado cenizas sobre el cráneo, le han puesto cadenas en las piernas y en los brazos. La multitud la culpa de todas las calamidades. Le escupen y escarnecen. La vieja no sabe lo que pasa, ni siquiera para qué la llevan a la ciudad de Lima.

Ja, ze lijkt ouder dan ze is.' Je moest eens weten, dacht Claire met een grimmig glimlachje.

Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.

There come a few times in a person's life where there is a clear choice," Cadvan said. "The difference between one person and another is how they meet that choice

Grounded her for two months. Her dad thought it excessive. We smoked pot when we were that age, Matt said, missing the point. Yes, we smoked pot when we were fourteen, but Emily wasn't us. She was better than us.

Virginia and Vanessa were often thought scruffy. Vanessa rapidly decided that untidiness and dirt were infinitely preferable to being 'a Town Lady'; the writer Rebecca West thought Virginia always looked as if she had been pulled through a hedge backwards.

Of course some people say it is her own fault that she's alone: that she is impossibly romantic, asks too much (or too little) of men, is unreasonably jealous, egotistical/a doormat; sexually insatiable/frigid; and so on—the usual things people say of any unmarried woman, as Vinnie well knows.

and said so. Their initial impressions of each other were

Not for the first time, he wonders why it is that married couples feel perfectly free to analyze the affairs of their unmarried friends; whereas if he were to make some comment on Joe and Debby's relationship they would be righteously pissed-off.

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

The Puritan Thomas Brooks once wrote, "We know metals by their tinkling, and men by their talking."[113

nations are collectively judged, and suffer for their misdeeds here and now.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Men are likely to bring what are only their prejudices to the judgment of alien peoples. Avoiding that is one of the main purposes of education. But trying to prevent it by removing the authority of mens reason is to render ineffective the instrument that can correct their prejudices.

Queridos amigos; todos los días oigo decir entre vosotros: "Soy pobre, no puedo hacer caridad"; y veo también que os falta la indulgencia para vuestros semejantes; nada les perdonáis, y os constituís en jueces, a menudo severos, sin preguntaros si estaríais satisfechos de que hicieran otro tanto con vosotros. ¿Acaso la indulgencia no es también caridad? Los que sólo podéis hacer la caridad indulgente, hacedla al menos, pero hacedla con grandeza.

Quando uma coisa é má, não há elogio que a torne boa.

I can tell a lot about people just by watching them go about their day. And from where I sits in the crow's nest, a rich man and a poor man looks equally small.

I can tell a lot about people just by watching them going about their day. And from where I sits in the crow's nest, a rich man and a poor man looks equally small.

The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what you know, and so they think accusations are ideas. This is political correction run amok.