Checks Quotes · Page 14

Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's…

— Dutch Sheets

There's value in checks and balances. And there's value in having independence in the governor's office with respect to the legislature.

— Charlie Baker

Expanding background checks for all sales and transfers of firearms is simple, popular, and commonsense.

— Alex Padilla

After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world…

— Linda Evans

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on…

— John Osborne

If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign…

— Wendy Davis

How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.

— Joan Rivers

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank…

— Hiroko Sakai

We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations…

— Ronald Reagan

You check into the hotel and see you're booked for seven nights. But you know you might be leaving in a day…

— Ernie Els

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the…

— Dave Obey

After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic…

— Edward Snowden

There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data... They…

— Heather Brooke

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it…

— John Zorn

It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school,…

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the…

— James Chanos

But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,…

— David Hume

[Romeo + Juliet] is relevant when Hamlet and all of that was out, when [William] Shakespeare wrote it. It's relevant now. It's…

— Quindon Tarver

Already a couple of the faithful have sent in checks for a foundation memorial to the innocents who perished at the hands…

— Jeff Cooper

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which…

— Virginia Woolf

A good rule in organizational analysis is that no meeting of the minds is really reached until we talk of specific actions…

— Joseph M. Juran

I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in,…

— Martin Millar

Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free…

— David Hume

In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat…

— Augusten Burroughs

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

— Dov Davidoff

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check…

— Deval Patrick

What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, "I Can." You'll love how he achieves it.…

— Max Lucado

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so…

— Barack Obama

I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of…

— Ann Patchett

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check…

— Lynn Shelton

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

— John Milton

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

— Alex Ferguson

Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

— Dhani Harrison

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

— Harper Lee

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?

— Robert Orben

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

— Charles Lenox Remond

People are here because they've got baggage. I'm talking curbside-check-in, pay-the-fine-'cause-it's-over-fifty-pounds kind of baggage. Get it?

— Lauren Kate

Horror Hotel, as wraith called Shade's house. "Vampires, demons, and werewolves check in... and then they make out, and-

— Larissa Ione

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

— China Mieville

Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any…

— Christopher Dodd