quotes about people judging you

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. ~Elizabeth Bowen



When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. ~Bill Balance



God pulled an all-nighter on the sixth day. ~Author Unknown



True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal



Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ~Henri Louis Bergson



The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill. ~Ted Morgan



Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ~C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958



It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. ~Brigitte Bardot



Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. ~Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise," And Still I Rise



But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. ~Andre Gide



But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. ~Andre Gide



I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. ~Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent



A final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem



Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. ~Not Your Average Dictionary



Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come. ~Albert Schweitzer



After a night in fight club, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down. Nothing can piss you off. Your word is law, and if other people break that law or question you, even that doesn't piss you off. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the Winter Olympics. ~Marvin Olasky



What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone. ~Bias of Priene, Maxims