Umpires Quotes - Page 10

• In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

  Mordecai Richler

  Giving, Canada, Damn

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• Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

  Holly Near

  Thinking, Giving, Used

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• I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

  George Voinovich

  Jobs, Giving, Care

  "Bush's 'perfect storm'" by Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. September 11, 2003.

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• The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

  Kary Mullis

  Years, Viruses, Mystery

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• I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

  Paul Simon

  Father, House, Used

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• People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

  Jimmy Connors

  War, People, Damn

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• This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Kings, People, Magistrates

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• When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Liberty, Executive Power

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

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• It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Agreement, Arguing, Different Interpretations

  Paul Ricoeur (2016). “Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

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• I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

  Herbert Read

  Arbitration, Doe, Imagine

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

  Bill Janklow

  Giving, Arbitrage, Profit

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• Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

  Merton Miller

  Arbitrage, Finance, Economics

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• Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Anniversary, Today, March

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• Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

  Golda Meir

  Birthday, Men, Other Worlds

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• A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Long, People

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", 1996.

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• I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

  Joel Osteen

  Judging, Heaven, Hell

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

  Jon Meacham

  Running, Thinking, President

  "Why Obama Shouldn’t Declare War on the Supreme Court" by Jon Meacham, ideas.time.com. April 2, 2012.

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• I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

  Nina Simone

  Swim, Trying, Scuba

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• I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Iowa, California

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• My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.

  Mike Brearley

  Men, Doors, Bird

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• We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Literature, Virtue

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.28, Knickerbocker Classics

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• Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

  Joe Torre

  Sometimes, Triggers

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• To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

  Tony La Russa

  League, Giving, Effort

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• The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

  Whitey Herzog

  Player, Lines, Might

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• I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.

  Joe Torre

  Loss, Bells, Saddened

  "Wally Bell Dead: Major League Baseball Umpire Dies At 48". hollywoodlife.com. October 15, 2013.

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