Judgment And Insight Quotes

#1. A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.

Joyce Brothers

#2. But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.

Horton Foote

#3. Clouds of linnets bounce, half-midges, half musical notation, along the hedges surrounding my old home, and all is out of sorts as far as that notion of home lies because my father isn't here.

Helen Macdonald

#4. Looking at him I felt as if I had just met a powerful gorilla while at the same time being in possession of the world's last banana.

Philip Kerr

#5. If memories were all I sang, I'd rather drive a truck.

Ricky Nelson

#6. Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.

Bryan Stevenson

#7. Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

Arnold Toynbee

#8. BARABAS: Things past recovery
Are hardly cur'd with exclamations.
Be silent, daughter; sufferance breeds ease,
And time may yield us an occasion,
Which on the sudden cannot serve the turn.

Christopher Marlowe

#9. Revival is: God, gladly at the center of my life, experienced and enjoyed.

James MacDonald

#10. I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

Leighton Meester

#11. The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.

Mary Parker Follett

#12. There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#13. [Phil. 4:8, 9] Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things. Whatever

Anonymous

#14. When we look at the past from beyond the perspective of sadness and error, without judgment, without right or wrong, understanding it was part of our chosen experience, then the past is healed. And by healing I mean that it is seen with wisdom and insight rather than judgment and scorn.

Linda Hoppe

#15. A representational photograph says, 'This is what Vienna looked like.' An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, 'This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.

David DuChemin