Quotes About Judgment

As my English teacher used to tell me, if you can't think of the right thing to say, say nothing at all.

Isn't that odd?' she continued as they wandered back from the front towards the shops again, 'When you see people in the shops choosing their clothes and shoes and stuff, they take ages - as though each thing they choose will be amazing and perfect. And then, look at them. They mostly look simply terrible - or just ordinary They might just as well have chosen their clothes out of a bran tub.

I do not like the people who read fifteen books by a man who has written three worth reading.' 'But if one enjoys reading, one must be resigned to many disappointments.' 'Disappointments – certainly. But if you read a book and are disappointed, it is because you intended to be pleased.

Wenn du das Schreiben zu deinem Beruf machen willst, dann musst du anfangen, dich auf dein eigenes Urteil zu verlassen. Du darfst dir ruhig anhören, was andere davon halten, aber letztlich ist richtig, was du für richtig hältst.

Some people just shouldn't speak.

Spare me your uninformed teen ideology.

Shift laughed. 'The ways in which you want to think badly of me are interesting.' 'Who eats mice?

No matter how out of the ordinary demonic possession was, it was still somehow a smoker's lung cancer, a drunk's pancreatitis, a philanderer's STI - a thing she had brought upon herself by not behaving properly.

People who are placed on a pedestal are expected to pose, perfectly. Then they get knocked off when they fuck it up. I regularly fuck it up. Consider me already knocked off. —Roxane Gay

He is disgusted not only by the whores of his city but also by the "wicked" sexuality of women in general.

The woman had been seen now a half-dozen times and had become a mass of characteristic motions and friendly staring eyes. Ellen longed to fix her into a thought, to know what she would say now that she knew how she would look saying it. She longed to find her out, to like her or to hate her.

I'm not saying they're gods or anything of the kind. It's that we don't know how their minds work. We can't judge them by ourselves.

It's possible to like bad people, but liking them doesn't make them good.

Have you noticed that it is usually easier to judge than obey? Religious people are especially good at it. I tried

You've got the wrong criteria." Huh?" You need to make more intellectual decisions, fewer emotional ones..." 'Decisions' came out a bit slurred. What the hell are you talking about?" You need to go for someone who won't let you down." How are you supposed to know if someone's going to let you down or not?

You made new rules for the people you loved. They weren't subject to the same judgment criteria you reserved for the rest of the world. In some ways you were way easier on them, and in others, much harder.

Given his own amorality, he could quite easily have come to terms with her criminal tendencies, but he could never, being the snob that he was, ever have overlooked her roots.

Address only those problems that are true problems to you, and don't create or imagine problems because someone else thinks you have them, no matter if that person is family, friend, or expert.

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be 'out of there.'

The people who talk behind your back are destined to stay there.

Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.

It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, "This is who you are. This is what you are.

That's you, right?' he asks me. 'Yeah.' 'Cute. Not that I, uh, think little kids are cute. Just that you were cute. I mean, you can see how you turned out to be so...oh.

The greatest misfortune in the world is to have more learning than common sense.