Checks Quotes

• There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Ghetto, Littles

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• Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

  Ezra Pound

  History, Literature, Generalization

  ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 1

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• The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

  Jerry Rubin

  Individual, Ultimate, Ultimate Power

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• An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

  Friedrich List

  May, Welfare, Individual

  Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin (1931). “Schriften, Reden, Briefe: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie”

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• Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

  Truman Capote

  Cash, Towns, Small Town

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• Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Judgment, Good Judgment

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• The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.

  Roy Moore

  Men, Balance, Constitution

  "Defender of the Decalogue". Interview With Thomas R. Eddlem, www.thenewamerican.com. December 16, 2002.

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• Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

  Thornton Wilder

  Play, Signatures, Directors

  The New York Mirror, July 13, 1956.

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• If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

  Gelett Burgess

  Change, Years, Age

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• Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

  Taylor Hanson

  Reality, Littles, Sometimes

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• The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

  Mickey Rivers

  Wind, Fields, Firsts

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• 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

  Gun, Should Have, Car

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• But as I often say, terrorists wont check our party registration before they blow us up.

  Jane Harman

  Party, Blow, Registration

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• Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.

  Catherine Bell

  Journey, Use, Information

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Effort, Literature

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Cute, Time, Years

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• Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Thinking, Impossible

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• A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

  Jesse Jackson

  Famous Inspirational, Giving, Credit

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• The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

  Ken Kesey

  Christian, Integrity, Fall

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• Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sympathy, True Friend, Giving

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• 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

  Writing, Wind, Flying

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• On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

  Tom Lehrer

  Income, Three, Blind

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• As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

  Mike Pence

  Real, Believe, Independent

  "Reporter's Shield Legislation: Issues and Implications". Senate Judiciary Committee, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 2005.

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

  Gracie Allen

  Government, Balance, Used

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• Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

  Steve Allen

  Government, Balance, Mafia

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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