Umpires Quotes - Page 5

• Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

  Bobby Darin

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

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• I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, 'Try this.' I got such a laugh you wouldn't believe.

  Peter Falk

  Believe, School, Eye

  "'Columbo': Peter Falk Dies at 83; Farewell Lieutenant" by Trevor Kimball, tvseriesfinale.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.

  Rodger Ward

  Race, Car, Training

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• Never judge a work of art by its defects.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Judging, Advice

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• To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Literature, Glory

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1794). “The Guardian”, p.67

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• There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Evil, Doe

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

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• The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Judging, May

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• For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

  John Cleese

  Growing Up, Men, Beard

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• I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Strength, Courage, Tests

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Important, Tonight

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• No damn man kills me and lives.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  Men, Bad Ass, Damn

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• Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Winning, Design, Competition

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• I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Selfish, Artist, Attributes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.

  Kathy Mattea

  Life, Inspire, Important

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• Your life is the same wherever you go.

  Gary Kemp

  Life Is

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• Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strength, Justice, Criminals

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

  Stephen Breyer

  Judging, Political, Want

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• When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

  Tony Abbott

  Media, Complaining, Politician

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• I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

  Glenn Close

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

  George Kennedy

  War, Loss, World

  "Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". audiologyonline.com interview, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

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• I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

  Teresa Wright

  Acting, Cheesecake, Attributes

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• It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

  Bela Lugosi

  People, Hell, Cures

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• Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

  Solon

  Law, People, Wells

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• They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

  George Will

  Baseball, Islands, Justice

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• But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Thinking, Two

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