Quotes About Judgment

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

We are not big believers in making decisions solely on the basis of the numbers. But we do think that ignoring what the numbers tell you is pretty silly.

But GAAP rules are not what most people might think of as "rules." They don't take the form of imperatives, such as "Count this expense exactly this way" or "Count this revenue exactly that way." They are guidelines and principles, and so are open to interpretation and judgment calls.

I've always said, never trust a person without brows, a maxim that has proven true on more than one occasion.

It's tricky business trying to place blame. For when we judge someone else's behavior, we quickly come into conflict with our own.

What's this shit?" Ray demanded, looking at the salesclerk. "Honey, truth hurts, but ain't no way you're a Magnum." "Well, I ain't no medium!" The clerk smiled. "Yeah, but I was being generous.

They always assumed that I did not speak. That I could not. So many had plotted my death, discussed it, laughed about it, even while I was in the same room, because they assumed I was mindless. Like one of the failures of their kind, born mad. But I was not a failure. I was what I was supposed to be. I was dhampir. And they never lived to tell anyone they were wrong.

Forgive me, Cassie, but Jonas Marsden is hardly an example of well-adjusted behavior!

It never ceases to amaze me how many people think I kill for fun." "Don't you?" "Well, not just for fun.

Then what is it about?" Marlowe staggered back to his feet, and Louis-Cesare hit him again. "I don't like his face." "Oh, that's mature.

Let me get this straight. First you decide I'm a demon because of a power I didn't ask for and don't even understand. Then when that falls through you label me a fallen sybil and a ho. Am I missing something or do you just not like me

No, I'm not in a bad mood. Why do you ask? You think I need to be in a bad mood to let you know I think you're an idiot?

I don't think bad people realize they're bad people. I bet they think they're good people who occasionally do bad. Which begs the question . . . how much bad can a good person do before being considered bad?

All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD. (Proverbs 16:2)

Judgment does not win others over. Kindness does.

There's so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us, to talk about the rest of us.

Do you really need to say everything that is on your mind?

Great men are not always idiots

Evil to him who evil thinks,....

Se você se olhar no espelho quando estiver julgando alguém, nunca mais vai fazer essa cara. Não é uma imagem bonita.

Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world relevance to them.

There's volumes to be said for a wine that takes you three glasses to decide whether you find it compelling or repellent." — EVAN AND BRIAN MITCHELL The Psychology of Wine

Sometimes mercy is not a kindness and pity is not love.

Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.