Quotes About Judgment

met a woman named Julia Rothman. She was very beautiful but a complete bitch.

figured it wasn't Davina. She drinks like a fish. Again, who drinks Coca-Cola at eight o'clock in the evening?

They were an audience … perhaps even a jury. My stomach was still churning. I felt like the condemned man.

Girls might be girls, but not, I thought, borderline psychotics.

You're disgusting,' Godwin said. 'You make it sound so … sordid.

I didn't like him. He had a way of manipulating people which I thought was a little creepy and then there was that business in Deal.

closed my eyes, quietly adding casual racism to the charge sheet against Hawthorne

Cara Grunshaw and Darren Mills are both thick as shit. I've met police dogs with more intelligence than those two. You could tell them everything we've done, down to the last word, and they'd still end up running round in a circle, sniffing each other's arses.

But if she'd known him better, she might have been a little less curt with him. I saw the anger stirring in his eyes and it made me think of a crocodile rising from the mud.

Is that why you asked if Weston was married? You think he's gay too?' 'It wouldn't surprise me. That sort look after their own.

The house is seventies modern with sliding windows, gas-effect fires and a giant TV in the living room. There are almost no books. I'm not making any judgment. It's just the sort of thing I can't help but notice.

wasn't that she would judge me. It was more that I would feel myself being judged.

There are two types of mistake; bad ones and good ones. You were definitely one of the good ones.

I hadn't liked him the day I'd met him although the strange thing is that I'd always loved his books.

History provides no precise guidelines.

Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.

People say, 'You're overweight'; they question your heart and character. It's a challenge again, proving to myself and to other people that I'm still here, I still have what it takes.

Frankly, the idea that exposed legs are some sort of sexual provocation is an argument one would expect to hear from a religious fundamentalist, not a feminist.

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Being prudent does not mean being fearful.

Because of my pseudonym Gulzar, which is how I am known, some people think I am a Muslim.