Quotes About Judgment

Su idea de cómo iban las cosas al país se medía por el tamaño de las colillas que recogía en la calle

you just don't know how bad it feels to have people who don't even know you hate you, and for something you had nothing to do with.

History was being rewritten by the minute. All of his childhood heroes were now being viewed as villains, their lives judged in hindsight by the current fad of political correctness.

taste doesn't cost a dime, but if you don't have it, you can't buy it for a million dollars

Good government is about limited power but clear lines of authority. It is about giving officials autonomy, discretion, and the ability to exercise their own judgment. It requires recruiting bright, devoted people who are inspired by the chance to serve their country and earn respect for doing it. This is not something that can be created overnight, but it can be done. Taiwan and South Korea were not born with good government.

giving officials autonomy, discretion, and the ability to exercise their own judgment. It requires recruiting bright, devoted people who are inspired by the chance to serve their country and earn respect for doing it.

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

When you're with a man, no one tells you he's a creep; they don't like to; they think, well, that's her choice, perhaps ours isn't up to much either; how will we ever be sure, in this polite world? In other words, as we all know, one woman's creep is another's true love, and just as well.

I don't think she looks sixty, do you Nik?" "Are you kidding! She looks better than we do and we're only thirty-six.

I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul.

To conceive of myself from the outside was my ruin – the ruin of my happiness. I saw myself as others see me, and I despised myself – not because I had character traits that made me worthy of contempt, but because I saw myself through the eyes of others, and felt the contempt they feel towards me. I experienced the humiliation of knowing myself.

I excuse you from having to appear in my idea of you.

What elaborate misconceptions form other people's understanding of us!

Si todo hombre fuera juez, todos los hombres estarían locos

Nadie tiene derecho a condenar mi alma porque me gusten los toros

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgement,' Gloria had said. 'It's the sum of all your judgements that counts.

Cada vez que te sientas inclinado a criticar a alguien- me dijo- ten presente que no todo el mundo ha tenido tus ventajas.

Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug." (August 9, 1955)

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

I can smell the sin on your breath.

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

I don't really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my stories emerges from any religion but Christianity, because it concerns specifically Christ and the Incarnation, the fact that there has been a unique intervention in history. It's not a matter in these stories of Do Unto Others. That can be found in any ethical cultural series. It is the fact of the Word made flesh.

You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it.