Quotes About Judgment

I put my hand down below the table to check my zipper. You have to stand before a jury only once with your fly open and it will never happen again

All these years in the straight life and she still had a whore's pride.

pride gets in the way of a lot of the right decisions

A man who looks guilty is found guilty.

Opparizio is a perfect target: rich, arrogant and Republican.

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Getting a not-guilty verdict was a long shot. Even when you knew in your gut that you were sitting next to an innocent man at the defense table, you also knew that the NGs came grudgingly from a system designed only to deal with the guilty.

I wanted to tell him that the judge was being insensitive and probably racist.

situation and to decide

the judge ignore it and drop

Bosch liked short prosecutors. They were always trying to make up for something and usually it was the defendant who ended up paying the price.

The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many. You don't need to add to them.

What's your point, Legal?" "The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many. You don't need to add to them.

I do know that jurors in general don't care for ponytails—on either the defendants or the lawyers who represent them.

When Ellie shook hands, Gennaro said in surprise, "You're a woman." "These things happen," she said, and Grant thought: She doesn't like him, either.

Look boy' Wyatt said. 'I know you're from back east, but nobody's that stupid

Presidents and generals and all the important people in position to make the most important decisions are, by and large, the least equipped for making them.

Being too reasonable is a defect

and when somebody comes up to me with big hair and gobs of makeup on and says, 'Can I help you,' it's all I can do not to scream, 'Bitch, you can't even help yourself.

Do you imagine, Peter, that your Carpe Diem boots would look any less deluded to them than that guy's Tony Lamas do to you? There's a comeuppance for everyone, wherever you are, and the farther you go from your own fiefdom, the more ludicrous are your haircut, your clothes, your opinions, your life. Within easy walking distance of home are neighborhoods that might as well be in Saigon.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Truth lies in the hands of its editor.

I would suggest that value is what people perceive it to be, and nothing more.

Por cierto, había entre ellas un pequeño monstruo particularmente repugnante: el llamado juzgalibros, que en lenguaje popular recibe también el nombre de sabidillo y quisquilla. Estos espíritus pequeños suelen pasar su vida poniendo reparos a los libros. Todavía no se ha logrado establecer con certeza para qué existen tales criaturas...

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.