Quotes About Judgment

You," she said, "are the ugliest man I ever saw." Sadly, the man answered, "Perhaps so, but I can't help that." "No," the woman allowed, "but you might stay at home.

Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right

He shrugged off his finely tailored coat and handed it to a footman. Joanna shot a sharp look at several ladies who had the effrontery to sigh while staring at him. They looked like ravenous bitches. As in dogs, of course, never would she even think the impolite meaning of that term. Perhaps there was something to Royce's fox hunting allusion after all.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

I'll take crazy over stupid any day.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they will love forever.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know it judges us by what we have.

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.

Experience, as we know, is deceptive: one judges the world through the prism of what has happened to oneself and considers this a just and reasonable approach, when in fact it is quite obviously the perfect tactic for never learning anything about anything.

no hay nadie que tenga el alma limpia, nadie ante quien sea posible desnudarse sin vergüenza

Erik choked back the insult he'd been on the verge of uttering. Judging by his expression, it was viler than a castor-oil purgative.

Lo llamamos síndrome del recomendado, y afecta enormemente a las probabilidades de cagarla.

And I tell myself at the same time that we're terrible judges of the present moment, maybe because the present doesn't actually exist: all is memory, this sentence that I just wrote is already a memory, this word is a memory that you, reader, just read.)

somos pésimos jueces del momento presente, tal vez porque el presente no existe en realidad:

Quizás es que ella permite al pánico entrar tan sólo cuando no hay nadie para juzgarla.

Permite al pánico entrar tan sólo cuando no hay nadie para juzgarla.

Es el perpetuo, empequeñecedor coro de quienes han decidido lo que soy antes de darme la oportunidad de ser otra cosa.

Es mucho más sencillo perdonar a otros por estar equivocados que por estar en lo cierto.

Tonterías, niña. Ninguno es gay cuando le acercas la mano al grifo. En su día yo curé a unos cuantos.

La literatura es una cuestión de gustos, es decir, de limitaciones.

Sólo que Judas, Platero, es el diputado, o la maestra, o el forense, o el recaudador, o el alcalde, o la comadrona; y cada hombre descarga su escopeta cobarde, hecho niño esta mañana de Sábado Santo, contra el que tiene su odio, en una superposición de vagos y absurdos simulacros primaverales.

what I call the soft bigotry of low expectations.