Quotes About Judgment

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

The heavier the burden, the longer they look at you. And Miss Julie looked at me a long, long time.

Es gibt ja keine verrücktere Idee, behauptete Tweedie weiter, als zu glauben, es gebe zwei Kategorien von Frauen: anständige und unanständige.

Alle Frauen sind im Grunde ihres Herzens Huren, erklärte er immer und immer wieder, wobei er seine traurigen, großen Augen rieb.

I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.

Strangely enough, no one can simply go ahead and do another person harm. You first have to convince yourself that the other has deserved it.

She would say: "But our boy is not a bad boy," to which my father retorted: "He is and always will be a good-for-nothing." Then mother would say again: "But bad he definitely is not," – because a woman must always have the last word.

Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources; only success can tell one from the other.

Una cosa che non mi può succedere: perdere tempo a leggere il libro di uno scrittore che non stimo e aggiungere la perdita di tempo di scrivere contro.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many varieties he has had his own experience with.

The act of staring is a thing which one does not ordinarily do to another human being; it seems to put the object stared at in a class apart. One does not talk to a monkey in a zoo, or to a freak in a sideshow— one only stares.

And I always feel this with straight people—that whenever they're being nice to me, pleasant to me, all the time really, underneath they're only assessing me as a criminal and nothing else. It's too late for me to be any different now to what I am, but I still feel this keenly, that that's their only approach, and they're quite incapable of accepting me as anything else.27

Morning and lunchtime are times when anyone can appear alone almost anywhere without this giving evidence of how the person is faring in the social world; dinner and other evening activities, however, provide unfavorable information about unaccompanied participants, especially damaging in the case of female participants.

Ana had experienced reactions like Ramon's in the mirrored salons of Sevilla society, in the waxed halls of the Convento de las Buenas Madres, on the streets of Cadiz and San Juan. It was a look that said, "I see you, but I deign not to speak to you." It said, "I see you but I do not share the high opinion you have of yourself." It said, "I see you but you're not who I want to see." It said, "To me, you don't exist.

He's younger than you are," she told Mami. "You should be ashamed.

One who does not condemn, never has to forgive. Your Inner Being will never forgive you because your Inner Being has never condemned you. Abraham -- G 6/13/92

deeming any particular BMI pathological is a political rather than a scientific act.

Ehud was tall and strong and was always quiet. Lots of people thought that Ehud was quiet because he was stupid. That wasn't true. He may not have been the smartest kid on the block, but he was no moron either.

DiÄŸer serserilerden pek fark? yoktu Kobi'nin. Ä°nsan?n asl?nda çirkin mi yoksa aptal m? olduÄŸuna karar veremediÄŸi tiplerden

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

The unholy alliance of religion and politics collaborated in finding Jesus guilty.