"It's hard luck always having to be a judge."
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"If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself."
"You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles - people nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones."
"The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away."
"False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones."
"My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces."
"It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion."
"We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us."
"When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world."
"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."
"Whenever you have a thought that excludes or judges anyone else, you aren't defining them. You're defining yourself as someone who needs to judge others."
"Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content."
"Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day."
"Gently to hear, kindly to judge."
"There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death."
"Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause."
"Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well."
"The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law."
"Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge."
"We judge all things according to the divine truth."