Quotes About Judgment

What all that means is that readers fundamentally want to feel something, not about your story, but about themselves. They want to play. They want to anticipate, guess, think, and judge. They want to finish a story and feel competent. They want to feel like they've been through something. They want to connect with your characters and live their fictional experience, or believe that they have. Creating

Does this loincloth make me look fat?

These questions must determine the accused's fate. This is the sense and essence of red terror. . . . It doesn't judge the enemy, it strikes him. It shows no mercy, but incinerates anyone who takes up arms on the other side of the barricades and who is of no use to us. . . . But it isn't a guillotine cutting off heads at a tribunal's instance. . . . We, like the Israelites, have to build the Kingdom of the Future

The most valuable sense of humor is the kind that enables a person to see instantly what it isn't safe to laugh at

Escalation in morality can lead to holier-than-thou sanctimoniousness.

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

Why are other people's prejudices so strange, while our own are so thought-out and reasonable?

I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

God does not hold our environment accountable for our behavior; he holds us accountable. (p79)

And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

You want to know what my doctor said the first time she saw it? Yes you do. She said everything about it gives evidence of an informed taste. That's a quote.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

MEDITATION ON THE BUS. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it suddenly came to me to remember my own offenses, just as heinous as those of others. If I concern myself with my own sins and lament them, if I remember my own failures and lapses, I will not be resentful of others. This was most cheering and lifted the load of gloom from my mind. It makes one unhappy to judge people and happy to love them.

We phungus never judge guilt or innocence, we judge evidence. The law isn't emotional, you know, it's cold and impersonal.

It is unwise to assume that just because someone has no manners, he is an inferior swordsman as well.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.