Quotes About Judgment

Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?

I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience.

Pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in others and overlook in himself.

Are you still with this man? On no, She sniffed. I realized pretty quickly I couldn't marry a man without a bookshelf. No bookshelf? In his house. Not even a little one in his loo for the Reader's Digest. Many people in this country don't read books. He didn't have one book. Not even a true crime. Or a Jeffrey Archer. I mean, what does that tell you about someone's character?

She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, colored by what you thought of them.

You're the most terrible snob, Clark." "What? Me?" "You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are "not that sort of person"." "But, I'm not." "How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person.

I turned away, unexpectedly afraid to look at him. I was afraid of what he might be feeling, the depth of his loss, the extent of his fears. Will Traynor's life had been so far beyond the experiences of mine. Who was I to tell him how he should want to live it?

She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, coloured by what you thought of them.

things I learned about being a parent, while not actually being a parent: That whatever you did would probably be wrong.

Every act has a consequence. In my view the world divides into people who can see that, and make a decision accordingly, and those who just go for what feels good at the time.

Who wouldn't say yes to a handsome, square-jawed man, who looked at her as if she were made of spun silk? Everyone else had spent the past months looking at her as if she were contaminated.

Every act has a consequence, Ellie. In my view the world divides into people who can see that, and make a decision accordingly, and those who just go for what feels good at the time.

I'm not saying she wasn't wrong to do it. I'm just saying maybe that one moment shouldn't be the whole thing that defines her. Or your relationship with her.

ARE THESE PEOPLE SUCH FOOLS THAT THEY CAN'T COPE WITH SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T DRESS LIKE THEM? WHY DO YOU HAVE TO PRETEND TO BE SOMEONE YOU'RE SO CLEARLY NOT? DO YOU WANT TO BE ONE OF 'THOSE' WOMEN?

Not much point worrying what the town thinks about you—nothing you can do about that anyway. But when you look outwards, why, there's a whole world of beautiful things.

She didn't actually criticize me—she was too genteel even to raise her voice—but the way she blinked slowly at my responses, her little hmm-hmm, as I spoke, told me everything I needed to know.

Look. I know I've got baggage. I know that someone like me is probably not on your agenda, what with a baby and everything, but, you know, you've got a ton of baggage, too. You've got an ex-wife who you're obviously not over and a load of women you've slept with who still work for you— which frankly I think is a bit much. And you're a bit of a misogynist, which I can't say I like either.

Perché questo vuol dire crescere in una piccola città: tutti pensano di sapere chi sei. Nell era la ragazza giudiziosa. La ragazza tranquilla. Quella che pianificava attentamente ogni dettaglio e a cui potevi dare l'incarico di innaffiare le piante o badare ai tuoi figli con la sicurezza che non sarebbe scappata con tuo marito né con quello di nessun'altra.