Quotes About Judgment

You cannot release being judgmental whilst you remain in judgment of it.

No one wanted this moral test, but most of my tribe have failed it.

Most people are distrustful of others who present themselves as one thing, then turn out to be another. I find it more useful to let them make their presumptions, then follow their preconceived notions.

perspicaciousness into question. He'd say you wanted to see a .45 Glock in the man's hand

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

You don't have to justify yourself to me. You did what you did.

It's like people think just because you go to church you're not all that bright. I mean just because I'm a born-again doesn't mean I lost IQ points.

panic inspires gross errors in judgement (Kinsey Millhone)

Results for I looked as respectable as the bum they were booking. I fancied I smelled better, but perhaps not. I've noticed that most of us don't have a clue what we smell like to other people. It's almost as though our noses blank us out in self-defense.

Why is it that other people's plans so often seem ill thought out while our own make so much sense? I

Where does it say that being a couple is a measure of anything?

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

It'd been Lucy who ran tattling to Miss Mary about my lettering under the tree, and Miss Mary had run tattling to missus. I'd judged Lucy to be stupid, but she was only weak-willed and wanting to get in good with Miss Mary. I never did forgive her, and I don't know if Miss Sarah forgave her sister, cause what came from all that snitching turned the tide on Miss Sarah's life. Her studying was over and done.

They don't know what matters and what doesn't I was gonna say, The problem is they know what matters, but they don't choose it

When I was being forgiving, I said that my mother was simply exhausted. I suspected, though, she was simply mean.

I was afraid, though, the blame would find a way to stick to them. That's how blame was.

Well, that's the tackiest color I've ever seen, and we'll have half the town talking about us, but if it can lift May's heart like that, I guess she aught to live inside it.

That's a millstone for you," I told her, "I'm sorry," and the minute it left my mouth, I knew it was coming from the true mind that was me, not the mind for the master to see. I was sorry for her. Sarah had jimmied herself into my heart, but at the same time, I hated the eggshell color of her face, the helpless way she looked at me all the time. She was kind to me and she was part of everything that stole my life.

I didn't know whether this Mr. Smyth was behaving like white people, or if it just showed something vile about all people.

They are condemned as impure, but God is love. He would not be so cruel as to condemn them.

They believe to stay in the same bungalow with her would soil them. That is why we've had very few social callers in the last year. Our husband made a choice that has affected this house forever.

There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.

There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.