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Quotes About Judgment

A los norteamericanos les chifla ver cómo se disculpan los pecadores.
~ Gillian Flynn
Amy was not happy. For whatever reason. I'm not even going to ask. I can guess, but I'm not going to ask. But I know you must know this: Amy likes to play God when she's not happy. Old Testament God." "Meaning?" "She doles out punishment
~ Gillian Flynn
I'm not just pretty anymore, I am pretty for my age. It is the truth: My value has decreased.
~ Gillian Flynn
Although Vivrca isn't her bona fide name, her bona fide name is Jennifer, but people don't believe Jennifers can tell the future; Jennifers can tell you which cute shoes to buy or what farmer's market to visit, but they should keep their hands off other people's futures.)
~ Gillian Flynn
Either way felt weird. Either way would lead to jokes. Trey was the kind of guy that would look for something just slightly but truly wrong about you that you didn't even notice and point it out to the whole room.
~ Gillian Flynn
You're still desperate to have everyone think you're perfect. You never want to be the bad guy.
~ Gillian Flynn
She's a good girl (for a cunt).
~ Gillian Flynn
She had what the Victorians would call a finely shaped head.
~ Gillian Flynn
I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend, the extra ten pounds, the dismissive boss, the conniving sister, the straying husband. I've always hovered above their stories, nodding in sympathy and thinking how foolish they are, these women, to let these things happen, how undisciplined.
~ Gillian Flynn
There is such a thing as a pretty trailer park, you know. Diane
~ Gillian Flynn
Yeah, right. Something Wicked This Way Comes,' Greta says. 'It's good.' She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.
~ Gillian Flynn
her bona fide name is Jennifer, but people don't believe Jennifers can tell the future; Jennifers can tell you which cute shoes to buy or what farmer's market to visit, but they should keep their hands off other people's futures.)
~ Gillian Flynn
Well, there are all kinds of men, and you are the wrong kind.
~ Gillian Flynn
Most beautiful, good things are done by women people scorn.
~ Gillian Flynn
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
~ Giordano Bruno
I am responsible only to myself and my God. Only I know what I did of my own free will. And for that I can answer to my God. What I did without, or against my free will, for that I need not answer.…
~ Gitta Sereny
I remember, he brushed his face with his hand and then he said, 'We are living through terrible times, my child. Before God and my conscience, if I had been in Paul's place, I would have done the same. I absolve him from all guilt.
~ Gitta Sereny
There were idiots amongst them – morons. I often opened my mouth too wide and let them have it. 'My God,' I'd say to them, 'euthanasia passed you by, didn't it,' and I'd tell my wife when I got home, 'these morons got overlooked by the euthanasia.
~ Gitta Sereny
We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.
~ Gladwell, Malcolm
Why did God allow Jephthah's foolish vow to run its course? (D*)
~ Gleason Archer
Evil is relative, Annalist. You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.
~ Glen Cook
I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive.
~ Glen Cook
let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.
~ Glen Cook
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints.
~ Glen Cook