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  • I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

    Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.138, Bantam
  • When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

    Taken   Men   Umpires  
  • The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

    Sports   Order   Umpires  
    Neville Cardus (2012). “Cardus on Cricket: A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus”, p.149, Souvenir Press
  • And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

    Light   Umpires   Safe  
    1665 Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.3, l.194-7.
  • Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

  • I didn't know a damn thing about style.

    Umpires   Style   Damn  
  • Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

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

    "The Court years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas". Book by William O. Douglas, 1980.
  • In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.

    James Naismith (1941). “Basketball: Its Origin and Development”, p.54, U of Nebraska Press
  • In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

    Land   Umpires   White  
    Guardian Weekly, London, April 8, 1984.
  • 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.

  • All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.

    Running   Sunset   Games  
    Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”
  • In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

    Reading   Umpires   Mind  
    Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.84, University of Chicago Press
  • We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

    Peace   War   Army  
    Thomas Jefferson (1976). “Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings”, Barron's Educational Series
  • 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.

    Umpires   People   Hell  
  • Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?

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

    Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books
  • No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

  • The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

    Couple   Reality   Years  
    "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.
  • When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

  • Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

  • Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

    "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
  • Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

  • If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

    Art   Umpires   Roots  
    Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 26, 1963.
  • There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

    Umpires   Rumor   Lasts  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

    Song   Umpires   One Day  
    Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.108, Broadway Books
  • The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

  • My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

    Summer   Dad   Night  
  • You can do anything, really. And that, l think, is one of the exciting possibilities of the present, l swear, is the possibility that the goddamn thing can be modaled throughout.

    "Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews".
  • 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.

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