Quotes About Judgment

Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.

Some of us have tough lives and find chocolate is a comfort and a friend. And some of us prefer a night on the sofa with Ant & Dec to hitting the gym. But whatever your excuse - and there is always an excuse - we are a nation of fatties.

One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'

It amuses me that just because I'm white and always looked skinny, I'm supposed to be unphysical, soft, not tough.

That's mind-blowing to me that people would say that because you have nice things, you're soft. No, you're soft because your culture is soft.

Someone told me I looked like a young Tonya Harding recently, as if 'young' would soften the blow.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong.

The decision as to what's funny and what is not funny shall rest solely with Mr. Freberg.

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

It infuriates me that when people forget what it's like not to be a Christian, and they get into other people's face about their life or their beliefs. It's amazing to me that people feel their relationship is so solid with God that they have enough time on their hands to question mine or to fix mine.

If you watch fights cage-side, sometimes different punches look better than others. It's like camera angles. Sometimes some punches look a lot better than they were, and sometimes a solid punch doesn't look good. So it just depends on your angle.

Whenever I told women - friends or acquaintances - that I had to go to divorce court, they'd invariably, without skipping a beat, ask, 'What are you going to wear?' It was like instant female solidarity: of course it mattered what I was going to wear.

My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

I honestly think if I had been a solo artist, it wouldn't have been as bad. Because I was being compared to three other girls, it made people have more of an opinion. If I had been on my own, there would be no one to compare to.

I think it's always easier to sit on the outside and act as if you have the best solution.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

As a young centre-back at Ajax, I played with Wim Jansen, and of course you learn a huge amount. I made some mistakes, because we Dutchmen want to solve situations by playing football. So we look at the ball, try to judge where it will come.