Quotes About Judgment

What is man to decide what poetry is?

Kleidung war für ihn bisher eben immer nur Kleidung gewesen - man brauchte sie um die Stellen zu bedecken, wo Gott von seinem Geschmack im Stich gelassen worden war.

Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman's tongue? What good was beauty — a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless — if it cloaked such a viperous soul?

The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.

They'd snigger and say she just kept Clyde around because she was a robust she-male who had to have a bull in her bed.

She felt stupid, though she knew she wasn't. She was intelligent, had always been an A student and an overachiever. The fact that her short-term memory came and went didn't make her less intelligent. It just made her feel that way—which made her think other people would feel the same way about her. They would think of her as brain-damaged.

Never judge a family by their address or bank account. And never underestimate the power of the American public to utterly shock and disappoint you.

What the fuck was up with a guy like that? What kind of message was he trying to send? To Kovac, a sweater tied around the neck said gay. Not that he gave a shit. It was just an observation. But then there were these metro guys -- or whatever the hell the fashionable people called them now. Sweater around the neck, manicures, and facials. Mixed messages. He never quite trusted a guy who sent mixed messages. Have a girlfriend or have a boyfriend. Pick a side.

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart. And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

Well, no, but everyone says they do." Someday I must read this scholar Everyone, she thought as she bit her tongue to keep from giving a rude answer. He seems to have written so much—all of it wrong.

Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?

A bad name is just a fart with consonants.

He deserves to die - but do you deserve to kill him?

People aren't that clever mostly, are they

The guilty are always the most prone to establish complementary guilt, and the most unforgiving thereafter.

Hope is a punishable offence. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

Why is it," cried the young woman in obvious chagrin, "everyone believes a plain girl will leap at the first man who wants her?

Damn this, damn that. So much profligate damning. Hell will be busy.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. —BUDDHIST PROVERB

Austin cleared his throat. Given the choice between being with books or people, he'd always choose books. You could always tell what a book thought without needing to have a confrontation. People, on the other hand, defensively clung to their need to be right no matter how flawed their thinking.

So then, we are all equally guilty, every day. How, then, does one find and know peace and power in this life when surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses who only pretend to be clean by whitewashing their reputations while pointing fingers of judgment?