Judging Quotes - Page 82

In my head, Carlisle’s kind eyes did not judge me. I knew that he would forgive me for this horrible act that I would do. Because he loved me. Because he thought I was better than I was. And he would still love me, even as I now proved him wrong.

Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works.

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river.

Judges are appointed often through the political process

This is so sexist. I mean, are we really going to put this as a standard of something we are going to judge our presidential candidates by?

We never know the issues others may be facing, and it isn't up to us to judge actions and behavior.

When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.

Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.

Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

Life takes us on different paths... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them. (Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster)

I don't stand by the understanding of that statement that I will ignore other facts or other experiences because I haven't had them. I do believe that life experiences are important to the process of judging - They help you to understand and listen - but that the law requires a result. And it would command you to the facts that are relevant to the disposition of the case.

All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.

When I first became a judge on the district court, I had one lawyer who came to argue before me, and he was looking off to the side as he was talking. I started asking him questions, and all of a sudden he whipped around and looked at me intently. I could see in his eyes that he had finally figured out, "This is no dummy, I'd better pay attention." It is satisfying to see that.

I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time.

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.

People in some situations act worse than animals. You can't be a judge if you try to be a robot. Because then you're not going to be able to look at both sides, and hear both sides. At the same time, if you're being ruled by emotion, then you're not being fair and impartial.

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

The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.

The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited with approval and with no apparent conscious irony my early poem, "No Alarms." The poem was composed probably sometime in 1974 or 1975, and it complained about the impossibility of writing poetry - of being a poet - under the conditions in which I was living then.

I really enjoyed judges critiques because I can always grow and improve from that. I don't think any of the judges are intimidating.

Some criticize me, thinking I'm too tolerant of the clerical regime in Iran. In response, I have to say, I have served time in prison, I have lost my position [as a judge]. Do I need to prove that I am brave? Do I need to be killed?

She didn’t judge him or hate him for things that weren’t his fault. She accepted him and that was the greatest miracle of all.

You judge people as you meet them.