Quotes About Judgment

Melinda's trick is looking hard in the mirror, Absolving herself and cracking open doors to the next place. But the girl at that school, so haunted, smashed all the reflections boarded up the windows and bolted the doors, forever stuck at 15 years old judged to serve a life sentence for what they did.

I said "shit" in front of the church ladies

I can't believe she gets paid for dreaming up crap like that.

There are two things people in their twenties do better than anyone else: get drunk and fall down and experience unplanned pregnancies. That, Greta, is your specialty. That is your area of expertise, dear girl, not calling other women out for failing to be tablecloth woke.

As my grandmother used to say, if you've got nothing good to say about someone, let's hear it.

Earlier you made her sound like a victim. Now she sounds like a villain." "Everybody's both.

Nobody'd believe a story like yours except a dyke who shaves dogs.

Living proof of indiscretions makes bad company on the morning after.

But that wouldn't happen to us. I'd read a book of John Barth's, The End of the Road, and I'd absorbed its most important lesson. When you have to make a choice, and all else fails, take the one on the left.

You see one, you've seen 'em both. And here I was, Munro Leaf's watchbird. Here is a watchbird watching two lesbians. Here is a watchbird watching YOU.

These are not, you see, the sort of distinctions of which women are usually capable.

It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds

And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Hindsight is an exact science.

By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.