Quotes About Judgment

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

They thought he was a dog. If you say "dangerous dog," folk think you're talking about a dog that bites, not someone who hands out deadly weapons at children's parties.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

we can be made to look very cold-blooded, to you.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

you come to rely, more than anything else, on first sight. You walk into the room and you think, sick or not sick. Not sick goes home as fast as possible. Sick, you watch. You draw blood, you order X rays, you give them fluids. You are careful, because a little bell went off in your head when you walked into the room and saw them.

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.

The unenlightened call him "Frankenstein," confusing him with his creator. The less-unenlightened call him "the monster," confusing him with his popular reception by the villagers and the local constabulary. But none of us knows, really, what to call him: knows, as it were, what name he would choose for himself, if he were given the choice.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

Our image of God-the-judgmental-deranged-monster badly needed fixing. Jesus came to edit our ideas.

We were busy judging everyone's spiritual state. We had a lot to do. Only God might be able to see their hearts and innermost thoughts, but we had a pretty good idea of how it was going to go for plenty of folks on the Judgment Day. Not so well.

We were busy judging everyone's spiritual state. We had a lot to do. Only God might be able to see their hearts and innermost thoughts, but we had a pretty good idea of how it was going to go for plenty of folks

As an ultimate fuck you to rule-keeping scripture zealots everywhere, Jesus hung out with whores.

Which came out of the opened door—the lady or the tiger?

Christians get very angry at those who sin differently than they do.

Some books are judged by their covers, it seems, and in my uniform I was an immediate best seller.

The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste.

In my opinion it is unwise to judge a young man by his school record. We have too many examples of bad students becoming distinguished men, and, on the other hand, of brilliant students not being at all remarkable in life.

Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

The American people are quite competent to judge a political party that works both sides of a street.