Hippocrates
Physician
"Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity."
Umpires quotes
Umpires
272 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."
Teresa Wright
Actress
"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."
Alice Miller
Psychologist, Author
"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."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"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."
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"My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go."
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"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."
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"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
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"No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him."
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"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."
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"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'."
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"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me."
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"Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure."
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"Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?""
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"Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money."
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"One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head."
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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."
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"Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!"
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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."
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"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
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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."
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"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."
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"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
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"A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other."
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"I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger."
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