"I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes."

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Source : Nice Guys Finish Last bk. 1 (1975)

Leo Durocher

#Motivational Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Sight Quotes

“To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness.”
“Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to work that [idea] into an abstract proposition that is completely removed from the starting point.”
“And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “Now I Know”, p.34, Random House
“It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.”
“If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.”
“I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
“I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.”
“Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.”

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