Judging Quotations | Page 4

I can't go anywhere without someone judging me.

I'm a pretty organised packer, laying out everything beforehand, as I don't like to take extra stuff. I've got a good eye for judging how much I can stuff into one suitcase. I've often not brought the right items, but I'd never avoided a chance to shop, unlike most men.

I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy years, given the huge responsibilities the president carries across the world.

I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

For those whose exclusive norm of constitutional judging is merely fair reading of language applied to facts objectively viewed, 'Brown' must either be flat-out wrong or a very mystifying decision.

I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That's great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.

Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

My aim in life is not to judge.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

I don't have TiVo, but I watch a lot of 'Judge Judy' - it makes me happy about my life when I see what the people on that show do.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I don't have many deal breakers. I've done so much in my life, it doesn't feel right to judge other people.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.

We do not judge the people we love.

But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.

Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.

Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

I've been on the opposite side of decisions before when the crowd would be booing and saying that I lost. I've lived with it. Judging in boxing has been same since the beginning, and it isn't gonna change.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.

It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.