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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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'.

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

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

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.

I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.

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.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

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 as loud as possible.

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

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 when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.

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

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!

You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.