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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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