Quotes About Judgment

A bigot can be defined as a guy who gets caught practicing sociology without a license.

When Vince was through talking that day, one of the grand jurors said, "Explain to me, to all of us, why in the world didn't you at some time go to Mrs. Reinert and warn her?" And by now Vince knew he'd spend the rest of his life being asked that question. And by now he knew that even when the words were not being uttered, the eyes were asking it.

Shameful, wouldn't you

E soprattutto sapeva che per quanto ci si perda nel presente, per quanto si creda che il passato è stato cancellato, esso ritorna. Ritorna a giudicarti. E tu giudichi lui, il passato, nel paesaggio morale della memoria.

For Liz, all American men were divided into two classes: those who treated you as if you were a frail old lady, and those who treated you as if you were just frail.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Everyone thinks I do heroin. It's not even true, I do crystal meth.

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Her back to me, she said, "I know what Paul thinks. Everyone thinks I didn't love Porter, that I just married him for the money, but Porter and I --" She shrugged. As avowals of lasting love go, I've sat through more professional presentations. But I said, "No outsider can understand a relationship between two people." Hell, sometimes even the people in the relationship couldn't understand it.

Was floozy the kind of job that required good references? Matt doubted it, but he refrained from saying so.

It was kind of shattering to have someone gaze deep into your eyes and decide you were one of the bad guys. Especially when you were one of the good guys. Or at least one of the normal, average, decent guys.

People say, I don't know how she lives with herself, but every single one of them was living with their own worst thing, just fine. No one walks around holding their ugliest sin in the palm of their hand, staring at it.

Young men see pretty, and they start hanging all the things they hope you'll be onto you till you're so weighed down you can't move.

May we all be judged by strangers!

Mögen Fremde über uns alle urteilen!: "May we all be judged by strangers!

If your child actually dies, everyone will feel sorry for you. If your child stops talking to you, everyone will judge you. At least that's what it feels like.

The Right thing at the Wrong time is the Wrong thing.

one cognitive symptom of depression may be the loss of optimistic, self-enhancing biases that normally protect healthy people against assaults to their self-esteem. In many instances, depressives may simply be judging themselves and the world much more accurately than non-depressed people, and finding it not a pretty place.