Umpires Quotes

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.

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

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.

I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

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

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

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

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.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

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.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

No damn man kills me and lives.

Guilt says I've done something wrong; ... shame says there is something wrong with me. Guilt says I've made a mistake; ... shame says I am a mistake. Guilt says what did was not good; ... shame says I am no good.

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion

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

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

You can't applaud a referee.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

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.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government as a biased protagonist, armed with the awesome authority of the Federal Government, in addition to rulemaking and umpire powers. The broad grants of power to the Attorney General to initiate and intervene in civil actions would go far toward transforming him into George Orwell's 'Big Brother' of '1984,' in the year 1964.