Top 100 Quotes About Checks

#1. The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

Henry David Thoreau

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#2. When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should think at least every three months the bank manager would call me up and threaten to strangle me because I had no money, and I was writing checks.

Peter Mayle

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#3. Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.

Greg Graffin

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#4. We can't exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I'm assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.

Tim Stevens

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#5. I always check in the mirror to make sure nothing is see-through.

Scarlett Johansson

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#6. In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called "the real America," by which she did not mean fallow farms and disability checks and crack.

George Packer

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#7. I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.

Mary Lou Retton

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#8. I'm a black, gay woman. I think the only way to make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks.

Wanda Sykes

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#9. When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.

Don Drysdale

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#10. I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

Wendy Davis

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#11. Don't let your mouth write checks your heart can't cash,

Tom Leveen

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#12. Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#13. I like being able to donate my comedy to charity. I'm not a billionaire, and I can't write checks.

Judy Gold

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#14. Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back.

Yochai Benkler

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#15. One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

Nicholas Kristof

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#16. We knew, very early on, that we had to be very, very clear that directors need to speak to actors and actresses and be very clear about what is expected, and find out whether they're comfortable with that. Wardrobe has to be in place. There have to be checks.

Michael Sheen

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#17. My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

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#18. Absolute power has corrupted and the absence of checks and balances seems complete.

Patricia Cornwell

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#19. Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Brian Cox

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#20. Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career.

Neil Armstrong

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#21. The blonde checks out the legs of the car like Pigpen checks out the legs of my English teacher--like a dog in heat.

Katie McGarry

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#22. Parents test our patience more than anyone else ... Being around them keeps you in check ... that's what keeps you humbled.

Nouman Ali Khan

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#23. Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check.

Frank Zappa

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#24. Where science is a dignified waltz in three-quarter time, magic is an improvised saxophone solo: all gut checks and synchronicities.

Michael G. Williams

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#25. At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

Bill Shankly

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#26. Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.

Adam McKay

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#27. Obama cool, but he ain't sending me no free checks

Big K.R.I.T.

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#28. When a hypothesis enters a scientist's mind, he checks it by calculation and experiment, that is, by the mimicry and the pantomime of truth. It's plausibility infects others, and the hypothesis is accepted as the true explanation for the given phenomenon, until someone finds its faults.

Vladimir Nabokov

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#29. All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes write checks that their personalities cannot cash.

Simon Doonan

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#30. I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

Charley Pride

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#31. So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.

Charles B. Rangel

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#32. Music lets you write your own checks. Don't ever forget that.

Jason Jack Miller

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#33. Writing checks with his mouth that his ass could never hope to cover.

Junot Diaz

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#34. Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

Marvin Minsky

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#35. Forget 'pray the gay away.' I you're more turned on by an AR-15 than a pair of tits, time for some serious therapy. Time for all you gun-humpers to come out of the closet. Is this really about the 2nd Amendment and self-defense
or just a pathetic fetish for guys with tiny pee-pees?

Quentin R. Bufogle

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#36. Because my wife worked for him, and I run security checks on anyone my wife works with - Christian Grey

E.L. James

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#37. Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial revolution, its government of checks and balances, and its conquests around the world.

Thomas Sowell

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#38. On Loyalty:
Loyalty is warranted only when it's been earned.
Misplacing loyalty is like signing blank checks.

Kalifer Deil

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#39. If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

Jimmy Iovine

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#40. The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government,

Harry Reid

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#41. Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

Master P

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#42. Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something works, that it is a good way to proceed, or even that it is true. We need to know why it's true. Otherwise, we won't know anything at all.

Ian Stewart

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#43. The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

Ronald Reagan

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#44. A good friend will find time on his calendar, a great friend never checks.

Jeffrey Fry

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#45. I've never been one to check for what the next person is doing. My circumstances and my mind have set me apart and I will never blend in.

Katerina Graham

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#46. It wasn't just that his brain was writing checks that his body couldn't cash.

Terry Pratchett

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#47. I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

Steve Earle

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#48. If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

Kalup Linzy

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#49. You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

Jeff Foxworthy

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#50. Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.

Lucy Powell

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#51. How can we cash out-of-town checks when don't know whether a town's still there?

Pat Frank

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#52. This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

Gracie Allen

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#53. I didn't make good money on 'Nightmare' until part three. I eventually got some nice merchandising checks.

Robert Englund

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#54. If you fear you've written too many checks on God's kindness account, drag regrets around like a broken bumper, huff and puff more than you delight and rest, and, most of all, if you wonder whether God can do something with the mess of your life, then grace is what you need.

Max Lucado

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#55. It seems unfair that anyone can set up on Twitter using my name, or the name of any famous person, without any checks at all.

Shirley Eaton

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#56. As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#57. When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

Carroll Quigley

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#58. Other thoughtful year-round gestures to staff included silver picture frames for wedding anniversaries, flowers to ailing spouses, additional checks for medical bills and even a pet dog

Estella M. Chung

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#59. There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data ... They don't want their industry publicised.

Heather Brooke

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#60. MTV wanted to downplay our lifestyles and pretend we weren't getting the checks that we actually were, so I think that was the blurry line between the lives we were really living and the lives that they wanted us to live, and things like that.

Heidi Montag

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#61. You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.

Liz Phair

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#62. Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitary

Anthony Doerr

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#63. We conservatives can win the ideological battles on a level playing field. Our ideas are better. Given fair elections based on contributions from regular voters, instead of $100,000 checks from business-as-usual special interests, we will prevail.

John McCain

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#64. Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.

Bobby Riggs

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#65. I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

Ira Levin

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#66. No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.

Bill Gates

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#67. It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

Baron De Montesquieu

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#68. If some guys couldn't stand the heat, then they didn't belong in the major leagues. I don't know anybody who refused the World Series checks I helped them get.

Dick Williams

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#69. Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.

Howlin' Wolf

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#70. This is a time when the protections of Americans' liberties are directly at risk, as are the checks and balances that have served to constrain abuses of power for more than 200 years. The Supreme Court is relied upon by all of to us protect our fundamental rights.

Patrick Leahy

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#71. Difference between rich and wealthy? Wall Street bankers are rich but they are no wealthy.Wealthy people are the ones writing their checks.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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#72. You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it.

Jack Kelly

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#73. Buying insurance is no one's idea of fun. And it's especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods against apartment-size rocks from space. But this is one insurance pitch that makes perfect sense. Ask the dinos.

Seth Shostak

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#74. As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.

Charles B. Rangel

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#75. I will say that I'm proud of my connection to DC comics because they are absolutely fabulous in sending reprint royalty checks.

Mike Royer

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#76. Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

William O. Douglas

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#77. I spent two of my checks in telemarketing when I was 18-years-old on my first pair of Gucci slippers. This was before H&M and Zara, you couldn't just find cool stuff when you were growing up. And to me, I care a lot about cool stuff. It means something to me.

Kanye West

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#78. Marco Rubio is interesting because he checks so many boxes when you think about what a Republican nominee needs. He brings Florida, he's young, he's Hispanic, the Tea Party likes him. But that said, he's got issues, actually surprisingly, ironically, with Mexican-American voters.

Mark McKinnon

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#79. Could you double-check the envelope?

Martin Scorsese

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#80. After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.'

Ruth Glick

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#81. Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.

Gautama Buddha

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#82. If I were a gynecologist, I'd say things like, Okay, enough of the small talk. Let's check under the hood.

Dov Davidoff

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#83. When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.

Doyle Brunson

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#84. Ove is the sort of man who checks the status of all things by giving them a good kick. He

Fredrik Backman

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#85. Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

Michael D. Barnes

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#86. I play hard and aggressive. I don't lay out the huge body checks because it's not really the style I play. But I love to be around the net and love battling corners and trying to dish pucks out.

Eric Staal

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#87. We're somewhat lucky here in the United States, where we hope that the checks and balances hold out for many years to come and decades to come. But in a lot of countries, you don't have these checks and balances.

Jan Koum

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#88. You gotta keep that in check - you got to.

Alice Miller

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#89. As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

Bernard Malamud

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#90. Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

Jacques Lacan

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#91. Oh, and you're not on our bank account yet, so he probably left you a few checks signed." "He left signed checks?" she asked, a little horrified.

Jill Shalvis

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#92. I funded this guy [Ted Cruz]. I gave him a check.

Donald Trump

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#93. After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

Michael J. Fox

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#94. Soze shook his head. "If someone checks our Internet search records, don't you think it will look suspicious that before we called the police, we checked up on the evidence?"
Poe laughed mirthlessly. "We're Rose & Grave, junior. Everything we do looks suspicious.

Diana Peterfreund

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#95. I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

Serena Williams

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#96. They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.

Joseph D. Early

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#97. I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.

George W. Bush

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#98. It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

Rami Malek

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#99. Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.

Paul Kagame

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#100. If I thought the Lord was speaking to me I'd check myself into Bellevue, and I think you should too.

Bill Maher

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