Quotes About Judgment

It's amazing how right you can sometimes be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

She must be the apple of her father's eye for she was a plain girl with nothing in her face or figure to indicate she would not remain so. As for rebellion I couldn't detect the slightest twitch of it in her.

Sometime in your past you entered a social situation (usually overstimulating to begin with) and felt that you failed. Others said you did something wrong

they understand what you think is its value, you can let them make up their own mind.

There's no leeway for a woman's looks. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Oh, well," yawned Vernon, "we all know that it's you Christians who go in for whips and tortures and burnings alive. Poor degraded sensualists like myself believe in the motto 'Live and let live.

My breasts are small," I said in a whisper, but immediately despised myself because it sounded as if I were making excuses, excuse me if I can't offer you big tits, I hope you enjoy yourself anyway, idiot that I was, if he liked little tits, good; if not, the worse for him, it was all free, a stroke of luck had fallen to this shit, the best birthday present he could hope for, at his age.

I behaved like that certainly to feel free from all the old bonds, to make it clear that I didn't care anymore about the judgment of relatives and friends, their values, their wanting me to be consistent with what they imagined themselves to be.

All the more reason, then, to wonder why I had confessed what was so much my own to strangers, people very different from me, who would therefore never be able to understand my reasons, and who surely, at that moment, were speaking ill of me. I couldn't bear it, I couldn't forgive myself, I felt I had been flushed out.

My mother always saw evil where, to my great annoyance, it was sooner or later discovered that evil really was, and her crossed eye seemed made purposely to identify the secret motives of the neighborhood.