Jodi Picoult Quotes About Judging

Quotes about: Judging

• The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sleep, Night, Love Is

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

• She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.

  Jodi Picoult

  Kids, School, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.440, Simon and Schuster

• The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Judging

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.447, Simon and Schuster

• Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!

  Jodi Picoult

  Judging, Witness, Wells

• I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)

  Jodi Picoult

  Religious, Wall, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

• As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

  Jodi Picoult

  Names, Judging, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

• be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

  Jodi Picoult

  Grief, Judging, Boundaries

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

• It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

  Jodi Picoult

  Doctors, Nurse, Judging

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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