Quotes About Judgment

Nos parece que no se puede atribuir un apodo cualquiera a alguien que deberá absorberlo y sufrirlo como un atributo durante toda su vida.

Pero yo te miro de frente porque no te juzgo. No te mato a ti sino a tus actos, al eco de tus actos, su resonar lejano en las costas griegas. Se habla ya tanto de ti que eres como una vasta nube de palabras, un juego de espejos, una reiteración de fábula inasible. Tal es al menos el lenguaje de mis retóricos.

No será, che, que para ciertos niveles todo lo que no es inmediatamente claro es culpablemente oscuro? ¿No habrá una secreta y a veces siniestra necesidad de uniformar la escala de valores para poder sacar la cabeza por encima de la ola?

Tengo horror de que me estimen por lo que no soy; que una persona como usted simpatice por un sucio malentendido.

Siempre se empiza por creer que no hay misterio en nadie.

Qué entendés por snob? —preguntó Oliveira, más interesado. —Bueno —dijo la Maga, agachando la cabeza con el aire de quien presiente que va a decir una burrada—, yo me vine en tercera clase, pero creo que si hubiera venido en segunda Luciana hubiera ido a despedirme. —La mejor definición que he oído nunca —dijo Oliveira.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

An unforgiving heart robs one of all the blessings of the Lord as well as health and answers to prayers. Why? You placed these people in the bondage of judgment through your words of condemnation

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge. You don't know the hold our mothers have on us, even the ones that are never around.

Only a bitch of color comes to Harvard to get pregnant. White women don't do that. Asian women don't do that. Only fucking black and Latina women. Why go to all the trouble to get into Harvard just to get knocked up? You could have stayed on the block and done that shit.

She is an exceptionally beautiful girl. You think of that old saying Show me a beautiful girl and I'll show you someone who is tired of fucking her.

Jesus, Oscar, Rudolfo said nervously. You look like they put a shirt on a turd

To be called boycrazy in a country like Santo Domingo is a singular distinction; it means that you can sustain infatuations that would reduce your average northamericana to cinders.)

It's disheartening, me and Magda together. We don't look like a couple. When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage. When I smile folks check their wallets.

Creen que la gente odia a los gordos? Pues imagínense a un gordo que trata de adelgazar. Provocaba el balrog en cualquiera. Las muchachas más dulces del mundo le decían las cosas más horribles, las señoras mayores farfullaban, Eres repugnante, repugnante, e incluso Melvin, que nunca había demostrado ninguna tendencia anti Óscar, empezó a llamarlo Jabba the Hutt, solo porque le dio la gana. Era pura locura.

Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

Who is the monster now?

But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that's all a man has to measure his life, and it's plenty.

The law does not require that to be proved which is apparent to the court.'

Sir William frowned. "Where did you get that jacket?" he asked. Immediately he shook his head and waved his hand dismissively. "No, don't tell me. I've a feeling I don't want to know. Some washing line or laundry basket between here and Marylebone, no doubt.

You can't condemn a whole group of people because of the actions of a few.

Which one looked more real? Which side more beautiful?