Quotes About Judgment

Jean had always found her sister hard work. Even before she was born-again. To be honest, it was slightly better after she was born-again. Because then there was a reason for Eileen being hard work. You knew you'd never get on because she was going to heaven and you weren't, so you could give up trying. But, God, the woman could make you feel greedy and self-centered just by the way she wore a shapeless faun cardigan.

It would be folly to assume that an Indian Rockefeller would be better than an American Rockefeller.

Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, the Comte de Mirabeau, the man who had defied Louis XVI by opening the National Assembly, said, "In the final analysis, the people will judge the revolution by this fact alone—does it take more or less money? Are they better off? Do they have more work? And is that work better paid?

In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value.

Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history. Georges Pompidou

It took me some time to withstand his judgment and his pity, but I looked at him across the night and kept breathing deeply through the break in my heart. In daily ways, we are judged, discounted, and even pitied for glories that only we can affirm. In the end, life is too magnificent and difficult for us to give away our elemental place in the journey.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

Chaque jour et partout dans le monde il y a des hommes en cercle autour d'une femme, prêts à lui jeter la pierre.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear we should not judge. We should just say, poor Camille, she turned into a bitch the way most people would have—and stay out of her way.

As for sin. I honestly can't believe God is so bored or so lecherous as to care how close my body and its various parts get to someone else's various parts.

Measured steps" does not refer to steps that follow a rule or square. A good man, Confucius said, "is not slavish to a path others have trodden." This man is not even slavish to the path he himself has trodden, for experience would teach him that every occasion is different: the circumstances change, and they change even as the occasion unfolds. Thus, each time, he has to size up the situation and decide how to make his next move. He marks the line.

Emotions and the feelings are not a luxury, they are a means of communicating our states of mind to others. But they are also a way of guiding our own judgments and decisions. Emotions bring the body into the loop of reason.

I love the saying "Nobody likes a dirty old man or a clean little boy.

Try arguing the virtues of Nello on chowhound.com, or a similar online meeting ground for knowledgeable food nerds, and prepare to get pilloried.

By this, I mean simply that many times in my life the statistical probabilities of a fatal outcome have been overwhelming thanks to my sins of excess and poor judgment and my inability to say no to anything that sounded as if it might have been fun. By all rights I should have been, at various times: shot to death, stabbed to death, imprisoned for a significant period of time, or at very least, victimized by a casaba-sized tumor.

It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something too of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality.

There's the mackerel of the cornflake for you, you dirty reader of filth and nastiness.

Ya no es un malhechor. Tampoco es una criatura capaz de una elección moral.

We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.

He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.