Top 100 Check Quotes
#1. We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.
Deval Patrick
#2. I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#3. How can you test whether something's an assumption? Try this: switch things around, and check how bananas everybody goes.
Annabel Crabb
#4. You might as well humor me and let the Band-Aid boys check you out.
Pamela Clare
#5. Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.
Mark Cuban
#6. When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate ... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.
Henry Miller
#7. You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.
Elle Macpherson
#8. I have something to check out. You ... guard the truck."
"Sylvie," Wright said, "no one wants this truck. I'm broke and on foot, and I don't want this truck.
Lyn Benedict
#9. Banks will fee you to death. If you bounce a check, the bank has a policy to re-post the check three more times to see if it will be paid. If it continues to bounce they charge a $30 overdraft every time. So, one bounced check will rack up $90 for the bank.
Jonathan Raymond
#10. Ellis had slept through the entire thing. That, or he was dead, but I saw no reason to check. If he was dead, he'd still be dead in the morning.
Sara Gruen
#11. If you want to deal with me, email is the way you do it. Working via email means that everything I do is searchable. I can go back and check out discussion threads from more than 15 years ago.
Mark Cuban
#12. It's the way he gets noticed, you know? I mean, imagine what it would be like if you were a squirrel living in the elephant cage at the zoo. Does anyone ever go there and say, Hey check out that squirrel? No, because there's something so much bigger you notice first.
Jodi Picoult
#13. This was the weird, scary stuff Denny and Mitch lived for. Every afternoon, they would gather up their papers to sell and hoof it over to the library to check the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) website for wherever rush-hour traffic was at its worst. Logjams were their meat.
James Patterson
#14. If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.
Keariene Muizz
#15. The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it.
John Stott
#16. We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.
Mika Brzezinski
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Kally Mayer
#18. Knight takes Knight," I called into the cloudy night air. "Check.
Jim Butcher
#19. Sometimes God is silent because He wants to check how much we trust Him.
Sunday Adelaja
#20. We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, every bit of money - someone says Stanley Ho, you issue me a check of so much money - we don't give that easy.
Stanley Ho
#21. I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.
J. D. Pardo
#22. Drama is not my passion. If I do it, it's for a check. It's not what I want to do. Comedy's my thing. Stand up's my thing. Everything that comes from that is frosting on the cake.
Gabriel Iglesias
#23. Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear;
To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
George Croly
#24. It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
George Horace Lorimer
#25. His expression hardened. It was unpleasant to have feelings that he had been at pains to check aroused to no purpose
Kobo Abe
#26. After dinner, we were all in the kitchen helping with the dishes, and I had the thought, Someone should go check on Momma. And that's when I started to cry.
Penny Reid
#27. Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
Henry James
#28. And since Rebecca already placed your order five minutes ago, I can only assume that this was an excuse to check out my rack. All done?
Jeanette Battista
#29. I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.
Mandy Patinkin
#30. He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.
Jean Racine
#31. working on a given day. Check out the tutorial I made on how to create a Tickler File in Evernote. Paper,
Sam Uyama
#33. I was born with this horrible affliction that leaves me attracted to men. Why haven't they invented a cure for that shit yet? Check the facts. It's the world's deadliest disease. I kid you not.
C.M. Stunich
#34. You should listen to songs and listen to what works. Listen to why a song is a hit. Check it out-not to imitate it, but there are certain things that work-hooks and melodies. Hear what works through the ages.
Diane Warren
#35. The solution is so obvious, but for so many of us we would travel a hundred miles out of the way to avoid it, gather a thousand opinions on the way and take a pit stop in fear to check our map before we proceed through hell. Heaven was always a direct flight with no layovers.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.
Anton Myrer
#38. The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.
Paul Watson
#39. If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
Danica McKellar
#40. We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#41. Steven and I had always come to the market to check out the fresh flowers, so when Friday came around with the fresh roses, I always stood in the middle of it all, breathing in the memories and breathing out the hurt.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#42. If you are in a position to give direction to the masses, check your direction thousand times to be sure that it is the correct one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. I'm not overweight. I'm simply overgravitated. Spell-check
Jenny Lawson
#44. You are a wonderful son, and a wonderful man.
Yet another parent busting forth with the "man" thing! I'd have to check my chest for signs of hair when I got home.
Jordan Sonnenblick
#45. The only people who experience no resistance are the unambitious and the dead. If you feel no resistance in your life, you need greater goals or you need to check your pulse. Life and movement come with resistance. Don't be discouraged by it, be strengthened by it.
Steve Maraboli
#46. She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the task were done and she had only to wait; so quietly that, as he came close, her outstretched hands acted not as a check but as a guide to him.
Edith Wharton
#47. When I was out in the real world, functioning in everyday society, and someone would say "Time is just a construct," I would roll my eyes and continue to check errands off my To Do list. But I was wrong, and they were right. Time means nothing. Never is that more clear than in a hospital bed.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#48. It's time for us all to step up. We've been extremely successful, but to be honest it's a reality check for everybody.
Darren Campbell
#49. Out running errands - be back before noon. I made a list of some things I like. Check the ones you're interested in, underline any maybes, and cross off your no's. I'm going to do two of the things on that list to you when I get back - your choice. Surprise me.
-M
Nenia Campbell
#50. During moments of strife and 'dis-ease', check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good.
T.F. Hodge
#51. My weight is a bit like the state of my bank account; if I don't check the balance I can't get upset.
Ruth Saberton
#52. I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you'll know everything about them.
Aeriel Miranda
#53. How many of us even know what our default state of being is? Check yours at random times; reset it to positive, grateful, disciplined or faithful. Don't ever let it idle on negative, greedy, lax or doubtful.
Toni Sorenson
#54. It's like God airbrushed the crap out of her, ran out of paint for everyone else, looked down at all the babies he was chucking to Earth and went 'hahah whoops but check this one out it's a masterpiece'.
Sara Wolf
#55. How could I have missed it? Easy. Deep in grief over Casey leaving, I'd gone on automatic pilot this morning, barely glancing in the mirror as I brushed my hair, smoothed on my makeup. I clamp down on the impulse to dig out a mirror and check out the 'mark.
Magda Alexander
#56. Hey, Dad, if I needed to check someone's background, would you be able to do that for me?"
"That's a little unethical, Liv." John smoothed his mustache. "Is this about a boy?"
Livia cringed. "Yeah, it is."
"Then absolutely. I'd be happy to.
Debra Anastasia
#57. I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.'
Phil Simms
#58. I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.
Bill Gates
#59. How did you-"
Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened.
Maria V. Snyder
#60. Immoderation, Mariotta, is a thief of money and intestinal joy, but who'd check it? Not I. Here I am, weeping soft tears of myrrh, to prove it.
Dorothy Dunnett
#61. Clearly we're Sorceri." Sabine gestured at her resplendent self. "Ergo, we'd enjoy some Sorceri wine."
"Don't got it."
Sabine quirked a red brow. "Do you not? Check with Erol, shifter. He'll have an emergency bottle for me
because whenever I arrive, it's an emergency.
Kresley Cole
#62. Without someone to talk to, every sight I saw - whether it was the Trevi Fountain or a canal in Amsterdam - felt simply like a name on a list that I needed to check off.
Jojo Moyes
#63. It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
George Horace Lorimer
#64. Rather than giving out information someone would be able to check, it's better to limit yourself to insinuation.
Umberto Eco
#65. I do have a Twitter account, and there's a woman at my agency who got that all set up for me. I don't know how many followers I have. It's not one of those things I check on a regular basis.
Christian Slater
#66. It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#67. I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.
Bob Dylan
#68. Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.
Hoda Kotb
#69. Happy Friday! Lift your spirits by living in the vibration of LOVE & APPRECIATION then check out all the positive things and people you'll attract!
Tracey Edmonds
#70. Life is a suicide course, Miro. Check it out- basic philosophy course. You spend your life running out of fuel and when you're finally out, you croak.
Orson Scott Card
#71. A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.
John Dryden
#72. I also write under T. A. Bradley. Check out my other books under that name!
Thomas A. Bradley
#73. Do you get a nice monthly check from the government for dwelling on things?
Doug Benson
#74. Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check.
Murray N. Rothbard
#75. She's around here somewhere. Check your pockets. She could be there. Sometimes she falls into these cracks between the floorboards.
Maggie Stiefvater
#76. Well, I'm freezing. Either one of us is going to have to check or we'll have to start cuddling."
Sicarius climbed the ladder.
"There's something wrong with a man who chooses to face death over cuddling with a woman.
Lindsay Buroker
#77. My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.
T.D. Jakes
#78. I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.
Amy Adams
#79. Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.
Lennart Meri
#80. That place is turning into the Hotel California.
You know, you can check in, but you can never leave.
Tracy Brogan
#81. The reality is a reality check is an oxymoron
Tom Schafer
#83. I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.
George Strait
#84. The tendency of a CEO, and particularly (speaking from experience) of a new CEO trying to make an impact in a founder-led company, is to try to make too big an impact. It is hard to check that CEO ego at the door and let others make decisions, but that is precisely what needs to be done.
Eric Schmidt
#85. I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being.
Joseph Bologna
#86. Keep at least one window pane clean to check the weather. Once when I didn't do this I sent the kids off with umbrellas for six weeks straight.
Phyllis Diller
#87. Unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.
John Cassian
#88. He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.
Jeffrey Toobin
#89. I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.
Lord Mountbatten
#90. Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship.
-Deryn Sharp
Scott Westerfeld
#91. I trust you with their lives,' Prof said, still writing, 'and them with yours. Don't betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.
Brandon Sanderson
#92. Put something on," Tyler ordered. "And lock the doors. I'll check it out."
"No, you won't." She was already marching to her closet. "We'll check it out. Nobody pushes me
around," she said as she dragged on a sweater and pants. "Nobody.
Nora Roberts
#93. Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.
Jay Parini
#94. I try to leave my work at work, and check my work-baggage at the door before I go outside of here. I'm not a super method actor, and I think that all the answers are inside the script.
Ashton Holmes
#95. During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#96. My pay check is important for my living, my self esteem is important to make me alive
Keerthi Singhe
#97. It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.
Michael Patrick Hearn
#98. Digital locks are roach motels: copyrighted works check in, but they don't check out. Creators and investors lose control of their business - they become commodity suppliers for a distribution channel that calls all the shots. Anti-circumvention isn't copyright protection: it's middleman protection.
Cory Doctorow
#99. A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?
Adriana Lima
#100. It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.
David Rose
