Benches Quotes - Page 3

• In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman

  Constance Baker Motley

  Views

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• I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Running, Believe

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• I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Want

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• The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  School, Men, Office

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• Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

  Charles Schumer

  Warrior, Law, Judging

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• I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Teacher, Piano, Age

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• Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Autumn, Thinking, Bird

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• I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Work Out, Pandas, Actors

  "Ryan Reynolds: ‘I Have Daddy Issues’". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Morning, Jobs, Years

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 03, 2006.

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• [The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so childishly to toddle along the benches, nay, to creep in the mire, and cannot skip and dance, on such light feet and legs, over and outside of God's commandments, as they do, the strong heroes and giants ... God forbid that we should!

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Sarcastic, Strong

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• The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.

  Charles Bukowski

  Flower, Trying, Parks

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader”, p.46, Harper Collins

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• The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Latin, Book, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

  Tacitus

  Winning, Opponents, Fame

  Cornelius Tacitus, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb (1911). “The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus and The Dialogue on Oratory: Translated Into English with Notes and Maps”

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• Spotted Park Bench
  I am a park bench.
  Ordinary words cannot
  express my thoughts on birds.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Bird, Ordinary, Parks

  J. Patrick Lewis (2014). “If You Were a Chocolate Mustache”, p.98, Highlights Press

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• I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it-you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.

  Harry Crews

  Sports, Thinking, Bullshit

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• I designed a bench in a few moments. But, of course, it took me 25 years to do it.

  Mario Bellini

  Years, Moments, Courses

  1987 In the New York Times, 25 Jun.

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• What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Real, Media, Living Right

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• Certain guys are like relief pitchers; they come off the bench, they don’t know when they’re playing – you come in and you just go. Certain guys, they like to start; they like to start the game and play. I believe Kirk Cousins is a reliever. I don’t know if he’s a starter.

  Marshall Faulk

  Cousin, Believe, Games

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• Lifting weights is obviously important, because you want to be strong and fast and all of that, but it's not one of those things you gotta go and try to bench as much as you can every day. A bench press isn't going to help you throw a 15-yard out or a deep comeback. It's not about that. It's about training right

  Mark Sanchez

  Strong, Lifting Weights, Training

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• One time in spring training, we had the hit-and-run on, and Carl Erskine threw me a curve and I struck out into a double play. I came back to the bench and Casey [Stengel] said, 'next time, tra-la-la.' I didn't know what tra-la-la meant, but next time up, I hit a line drive, right into a double play. When I sat down, Casey came over and said, 'Like I told you, tra-la-la.'

  Whitey Herzog

  Running, Spring, Curves

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• It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons... I warn the House of Lords of the consequences... it is our strong view that the House of Lords should recall that its role is not that of a wrecking chamber, but of a revising chamber. In recent weeks, it has been wrecking legislation passed by this House.

  James Callaghan

  Strong, Views, House

  James Callaghan's speech on economic policy in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. November 9, 1976.

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• For young males that weigh between 150-200 lbs., deadlifts can move up 15-20 lbs. per workout, squats 10-15 lbs., with continued steady progress for 3-4 weeks before slowing down to half that rate. Bench presses, presses, and cleans can move up 5-10 lbs. per workout, with progress on these exercises slowing down to 2.5-5 lbs. per workout after only 2-3 weeks. Young women make progress on the squat and the deadlift at about the same rate, adjusted for bodyweight, but much slower on the press, the bench press, cleans, and assistance exercises.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Workout, Moving, Exercise

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• Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police.

  Gene Spafford

  Light, Bridges, People

  Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford (1997). “Web Security & Commerce”, O'Reilly Media

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• I think it's important to bring somebody from outside the system, the judicial system, somebody that hasn't been on the bench and, therefore, there's not a lot of opinions for people to look at.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, People, Important

  George W. Bush's Press Conference, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 4, 2005.

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• My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

  Earl Weaver

  Sports, Games, Psychology

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