Umpires Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion

  Samuel Gompers

  Morning, Believe, Arbitration

  Samuel Gompers (1990). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90”, p.87, University of Illinois 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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• 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 can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Letting Go, Peace, Judging

  Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.138, Bantam

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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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• Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

  Jay Inslee

  Goal, Car, Ambitious

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• We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

  John Searle

  Car, Understanding, Machines

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.

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• Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

  William O. Douglas

  History, Judging, Want

  "The Court years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas". Book by William O. Douglas, 1980.

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• A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice

  Ban Johnson

  Baseball

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• I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Mistake, Thinking, Justice

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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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• Your life is the same wherever you go.

  Gary Kemp

  Life Is

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• You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

  Juan Marichal

  Thinking, Today, Pitcher

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• Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Distance, Horizon

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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• Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Effort, Classic, Achieve

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• An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

  Bill Klem

  Anger, Player, Walking Away

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• I'm a little too belligerent. I cuss and swear at people. I yell at umpires and maybe I'm a little to tough at home sometimes. I don't sign as many autographs as I should and I haven't always been that good with writers.

  Thurman Munson

  Home, Yankees, People

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• No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

  Juvenal

  Evil, Vices, Worst

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• Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Grows, Dies

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• Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

  Dizzy Dean

  Mckinley, Shots

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• Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Parent, Honor

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.263, Macmillan

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