Experts often possess more data than judgment.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

I resent the implication that I’m less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

I am not a televangelist.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The wisest have the most authority.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.