Umpires Quotes
222 quotes by 195 authors
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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
— Margaret Atwood
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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…
— Marcus Aurelius
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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
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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
— Joseph Addison
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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
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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…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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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
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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,…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
— Buzz Aldrin
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A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
— Anton Chekhov
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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was…
— John Cleese
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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
— Agatha Christie
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I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that…
— Chris Christie
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Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.
— Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
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In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and…
— Dot Richardson
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The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'
— Rod Laver
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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.
— Neville Cardus
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I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get…
— Katharine Whitehorn
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I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
— Leo Durocher
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