Benches Quotes - Page 7

• Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches.

  Caroline Paul

  Lying, Cat, Animal

  Caroline Paul (2013). “Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology”, p.31, A&C Black

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• My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an upside-down planet, pineapple-cratered. Though I was born here, I came from the other side of the looking glass, as did Alice, though not alone like Alice. Downtown I saw lots of brown people. Old men on benches. Winks from Filipinos. Sikhs who worked in the fields were the most mysterious brown men, their heads wrapped in turbans. They were the rose men. They looked like roses.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Men, Glasses, Rose

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin

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• America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.

  John Cornyn

  Law, America, Political

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• We need to put people on the bench that understand the Constitution is not a living and breathing document. It is to be interpreted as originally meant.

  Marco Rubio

  Breathing, People, Needs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 'm starting to get a swimming physique, which I'm very pleased about, because for me that's the most appealing male physique. It's not show-y off-y Mr Muscle, "Look how much I can bench." It's just a real lean, athletic figure and it doesn't look like you try too hard. When you see people who have huge biceps, it looks like they're in the gym all day. But I think there's a difference between looking muscly and being fit.

  Greg James

  Real, Swimming, Thinking

  "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, in.askmen.com.

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• I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Real, Kissing, Magic

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• You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Piano, Swim

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• The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn't get off to a blazing start, I'm on the bench. Now, I've proven myself, so it's not essential that I get off to a real good start.

  Eric Davis

  Jobs, Spring, Real

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

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• You're not challenging anyone else but yourself. I'd like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.

  Aaron Tippin

  Challenges, Pounds, Squat

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• You come out of a store and they give you seventy-five cents change or something, rather than drop it I would always place it in the community. Sometimes I'd flip it into the hat of a busker or give it to a homeless person. But what I most enjoyed was putting it on a windowsill or on a bench seat or somewhere where I knew that the community would get it.

  Jason Mraz

  Giving, Community, Flip

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

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• I'm on a constant yo-yo of health. I will go a week eating incredibly clean, but then I'll follow that up with a month's worth of binge eating. Then I hit the gym and eat clean, and then I mix it up with core exercises, yoga, Pilates, and sitting on an incline bench while checking my phone.

  Josh McDermitt

  Yoga, Exercise, Phones

  "Origin Series: Mad Men And The Walking Dead actor Josh McDermitt". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.

  John Wooden

  Player, Should, Ifs

  "John Wooden: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 2000.

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• Individual grievances and pet peeves have got to go by the wayside. Generally, you don't have to worry about the guys who are playing every day, it's the guys who are sitting on the bench that are the ones that get needles in their pants.

  Walter Alston

  Worry, Guy, Pet

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• We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

  Otto Rehhagel

  Sports, Football, Running

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• The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

  Conrad Black

  Hands, Bars, Matter

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• I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

  Eric Bana

  Twenties, Weight, Today

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• What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don't see themselves as a super legislature.

  Michele Bachmann

  Justice, Judging, President

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• The most important thing will be building a bench of powerhouse progressives in elected office and in the next administration. [Bernie] Sanders has an enormous spotlight that he can shine on champions that are following the Sanders path of really building from the left.

  Ben Wikler

  Shine On, Office, Shining

  "What Should Bernie Sanders Do Next?". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 11, 2016.

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• My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sick, Kitchen, Phases

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

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• In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.

  Barry Lyga

  Baseball, Team, Men

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Sacrifice, History, Principles

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I'll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.

  William Howard Taft

  Country, Character, Men

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• I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law, or if I think there has beenperjury or injustice, I will weigh the petition most carefully, but I do not permit myself to be moved by more harrowing details, and I try to treat each case as if I was reviewing it or hearing it for the first time from the bench.

  William Howard Taft

  Mistake, Thinking, Law

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• The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.

  William S. Knudsen

  Men, America, Genius

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• I don't know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don't have to protect each other much, unless there's like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it's important that they look out for each other.

  Sean William Scott

  Loyalty, Baseball, Lying

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