As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

Some of us are inclined to look to the weaknesses and shortcomings of others in order to expand our own comfort zone.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being.

I had a lot of wrong preconceived notions about church-y folks, and I'm bad at judging the messenger, not the message.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

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.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

Brett Kavanaugh is a brilliant, brilliant judge and one of the most-distinguished conservative jurists in the country.

Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee; Betwixt the stirrop and the ground, Mercy I askt, mercy I found.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

I am pro-life, and I will be appointing pro-life judges, I would think that that will go back to the individual states.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.

It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.

The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

I don't spend a lot of time worrying about how I look and I don't fall into the trap of judging myself by my appearance.

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

The best way to judge the worth of a person’s wealth is to count the number of genuine people he has got in his network.

Judges isn't just about people who blow it over and over. It's a picture of God's love that never fails even when we do.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

When it's all said & done only God can judge me. I'm going to go out there on 5/5 to give my fans what they want to see.

The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.

That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.

There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.

... God is going to judge righteously... . what did each one do in relation to what he or she knew to be right of wrong?

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

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.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the better the person, the greater the nation.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music.

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