Quotes About Judgment

from a child's perspective all adults are old and fat

when Yazz talks about her unusual upbringing to people, the unworldly ones expect her to be emotionally damaged from it, like how can you not be when your mum's a polyamorous lesbian and your father's a gay narcissist (as she describes him), and you were shunted between both their homes and dumped with various godparents while your parents pursued their careers? this annoys Yazz who can't stand people saying anything negative about her parents that's her prerogative

De todas maneras - continuó -, la pretensión de entresacar los momentos especiales de nuestra vida puede ser un grave error. Es posible que la vida sólo pueda ser juzgada en su totalidad, in extenso, y no a trozos, no tomando un día y quitando otro, no separando los años como las piezas de un rompecabezas para acabar diciendo que tal fue muy bueno y tal muy malo. Y es que todo lo que vive, vive como un río. Sin cortes, sin paradas.

I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her. I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. ...And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

Had my child been a clergyman's probably he would have been strangled at birth.

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

Alas, weWho wished to lay the foundations of kindness,Could not ourselves be kind.But you, when at last it comes to passThat man can help his fellow man,Do not judge usToo harshly.

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in Is termed violent by no one.

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

There appears, also, to be a possibility of a mind in Nature, although we have seen that intelligence is, strictly speaking, impossible. There cannot be perception, memory, comparison, or judgment; but may there not be a perfect mind, unchanging, calm, and still?

When sharing your news, you might come across some disgruntled parent-folk. You know, the kind who snort and say ruefully, "If there's anyplace you want to travel to, go now." Don't let them squelch your joy, dear K: these are the kind of people who never went anywhere before they had babies either.

Though Mrs. Fontaine smiled, I couldn't help but wonder if she'd sized me up and found me lacking.

The value of a thing always depends upon your point of view.

You just don't want me to realize how old you actually are when I see a picture of you in line for Return of the Jedi ." --Dr. Julian Piet (Quoter's note: Damn, it hurts most when they don't mean it. I resemble that remark!! =( )

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

So at that time of day when the early sun still rings haloes on human heads, Socrates is walking through the Agora to his judgement day.

Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?