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writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing suffering littles
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer... Richard Baxter
writing emotional rocks
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! Rex Reed
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing. Rebecca West
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing editing edited
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. Russell Lynes
writing intelligent honest
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. Russell Banks
writing paint draws
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
umpires league three
The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do. Ty Cobb
umpires until wait
I never thought I would say this, but I can't wait until we get the (regular) umpires back. We still have to play ball. Michael Coleman
umpires guarantees benefits
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. Chris Christie
umpires gods-will
Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God. Edwin Louis Cole
umpires games referee
You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call. Drew Curtis
umpires soul secret
I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul. Anne Rice
umpires law judging
A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law. Samuel Alito
umpires giving league
To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time. Tony La Russa
umpires rumor lasts
There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally. Shawn Ashmore
justice politics world
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. Reinhold Niebuhr
justice suffering fairness
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. William Blackstone
justice social-justice 21st-century
I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century. Van Jones
justice community suffering
Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
justice trying demand
We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable. Ursula K. Le Guin
justice joy insecurity
Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court. Sandra Day O'Connor
justice abortion fetus
She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed and unformed [fetus]; here truly justice is made not only for the unborn but also with reference to the person who is attentive only to himself/herself since so many women generally die for this very reason.. Saint Basil
justice kingdoms gang
What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits. Saint Augustine
justice our-love
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.