Quotes About Judgment

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Sophie was neither a virgin nor a prude, despite what people might otherwise assume about librarians. On the contrary, if people knew just how well-read she was on the subject of sex, they would likely be shocked. Especially Jake.

Marriage isn't a disease; it isn't catching. You don't have to pass it on to everybody you know. Unlike a woman I once heard admit "I've never been married but I tell people I'm divorced so they are not scared of me

Others will forever be scratching their heads and wondering what's wrong with you and comparing notes (he's always been a bit strange; she's so neurotic; I think he's gay).

The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be.

I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you."

People don't like to speak ill of the dead even when they're monsters, let alone when they're loved ones. People like to forget any bad things that someone did and why should they remember?

It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

If they were ugly, Peter, would you care half so much?" asked Nightingale. "There are some hideous things out there that can talk and reason, and I wonder if you would be quite so quick to rush to their defence." "Maybe not," I said. "But that just makes me shallow, it doesn't make me wrong.

even before I got close enough to see the flecks of hazel-gold around the iris I had her pegged as being fayer than the client list of a New Zealand casting agency.

Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he'd stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time.

Ash turned out to be a young man half a head taller than me, broad of shoulder, clear of eye, noble of brow and empty of thought.

we might have been Welsh, in my dad's eyes a fate worse than Scottish.

It is the duty of God's disciples to strike you dead

Never trust a skinny ice cream man.

You... you don't look like a Jew,' she heard him mumble. 'What does a Jew look like, you fatuous bastard'? - 'Do you think I should have a nose like a boat hook, you stupid old prick!

I didn't love every group I encountered. In fact, I'll be quite happy to never see gun-and-coin dude again. But I learned to stand in other people's shoes, as much as a child can. It's hard to view certain people as anything but monsters, yet there's value in giving it the old college try. By dignifying even the most despicable character as a human being, by offering them what empathy we can manage, we also hold them accountable for their choices.

By dignifying even the most despicable character as a human being, by offering them what empathy we can manage, we also hold them accountable for their choices.

I try not to jump to conclusions about anything I feel I've seen or heard before. I try not to write off music my kids play me as "throwback" even if it closely resembles something that I thought was new when I was a kid. Sure, I want to put on the seventies' English band the Jam and say, See! Your new little punk bands are just shiny versions of this! But I'd be wrong. To diminish the new as nothing more than a rehash is a mistake.

When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

Some people are weatherwise, and most are otherwise.

John Masterman once wrote: "Sometimes in life27 you feel that there is something which you must do, and in which you must trust your own judgment and not that of any other person. Some call it conscience and some plain obstinacy. Well, you can take your choice.

As Oscar Wilde remarked: "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

but you just know what to trust and what not to trust.