Umpires Quotes - Page 4

• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

  E. M. Forster

  Shadow, Room With A View, Darkness To Light

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.470, Delphi Classics

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• A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

  Anton Chekhov

  Engagement, Shore, Left

  "The Little Trilogy: The Man in a Case, Gooseberries, about Love". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.

  Thomas Boswell

  Jobs, Fbi Agents, Ifs

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

  Brendan Behan

  Judging, Said, Joyce

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• Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

  Che Guevara

  Hands, Political, Battle

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• The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

  Lindsey Graham

  Judging, Political, Parks

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• I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!

  Geri Halliwell

  Damn, Songwriting, Wells

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• Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

  Mark Hoppus

  Advocating, Yeah, Screws

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• The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Men, Worry, Soul

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• No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

  Matthew Henry

  Holiness, Attributes, Sinner

  Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry (1847). “Psalm LXIV-Malachi”

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• If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Travel, Men

  A Moveable Feast epigraph (1964).

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• I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.

  Zahi Hawass

  Running, Egypt, Media

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• Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Believe, Soul

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, August 11, 1890.

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• Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Dirty, Book, Winning

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.145, Penguin UK

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• Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

  Julian Bond

  Justice, Needs, Rewards

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• When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Song, Play, Giving

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• People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Virtue, Economy

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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• Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.

  Bowie Kuhn

  Arbitration, Salary

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• Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Waiting, Mars, Space Exploration

  FaceBook post by Buzz Aldrin from Oct 02, 2009

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• Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

  Margaret Atwood

  Prayer, Justice, Might

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• I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun.

  Catherine Crier

  Fun, Judging, Missing

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• Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

  Lillian Hellman

  Baby, Believe, Views

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

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• One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, One Day, Damn

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.108, Broadway Books

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• We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Majority, Too Much, Causes

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• Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

  Max Baucus

  Rights, Judging, Healthy

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