Quotes About Judgment

He sighed. She was a mistake in every sense. She made herself available once, and I make it a rule to avoid overly eager women a second time. And that doesn't make you sound like an asshole at all.

But what really hurts is that you automatically default to thinking my way is wrong just because I handle things in a way you wouldn't.

Instead, Hester had been presented at court

Speculation is necessary in business, but in affairs of the heart, it often leads to poor judgement.

If there were angels, would they be the good guys or the bad?" Lindsay

People will make assumptions, my mother in particular. She's already scenting your bachelor blood in the water.

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.

With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.

I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.

When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.

I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like.

I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.

She looked terrible, but very wise.

When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants, or Republicans and Democrats, or white men and black men, or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't; and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.

Whore or courtesan, she put on a great little show.

People or stars regard me sadly. I disappoint them

I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I would respect him.

I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded.

I made a decision about Doreen that night. I decided I would watch her and listen to what she said, but deep down I would have nothing at all to do with her.

It was a face that needed soap and water and Christian tolerance.

All I'd heard about, really, was how fine and clean Buddy was and how he was the kind of person a girl should stay fine and clean for. So I didn't really see the harm in anything Buddy would think up to do.

The same thing happened over and over: I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.