Checks Quotes - Page 8

• In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'

  William Safire

  Order, Judging, Style

  "Essay; Seizing Dictatorial Power" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 2001.

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• Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

  Mitt Romney

  Needs, Detroit, Turnaround

  "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt". www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Few Words, Enormous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.41, Editora Dracaena

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• If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver.

  Glenn Beck

  Suicide, Suicidal, Media

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

  Liz Phair

  Thinking, Enough, Ifs

  Song: Girls! Girls! Girls!

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• O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!

  Hannah More

  Jealous, Hue, Flesh

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• It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Would Be, Looks

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• You check the pregnancy test every month, and when it comes up negative it can start to wear on you

  Cindy Margolis

  Pregnancy, Negative, Tests

  "Margolis tackles off-screen challenge" By Kat Carney, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2003.

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• The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.

  Peggy Ryan

  Humorous, Weight, Baggage

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• Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Regret, Adversity

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.56, Penguin Books India

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• He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Giving Up, Wrath

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• Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lunges. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Depression, Long, Let It Go

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• On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak`at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth. We will realize the priceless check that was left on our doorstep every night as we slept. There will come a day when we would give up everything under the sky just to come back and pray those two rak`at.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Prayer, Giving Up, Islamic

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• 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

  Wise, Compassion, Treasure

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• I read about a guy in Michigan this winter who was cruising along on his snow mobile. "Whoo hoo!" Didn't see a barbed wire fence. FOOM - cut his head right off. And I'll be honest with you, my first thought was... That's how I want to go. Having the time of your life, "whoo hoo!" FOOM. I want the last thought in my head to be, 'Hey, check out that headless snow mobile driver. He's got a jacket just like mine.'

  David Crowe

  Winter, Cutting, Snow

  "Bob & Tom Comedy All-Stars Tour". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.

  Victoria Moran

  Commitment, Lists, Projects

  Victoria Moran (2009). “Fat, Broke & Lonely No More: Your Personal Solution to Overeating, Overspending, and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• Web-site creation isn't something you learn once and then check off on your to do list.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Lists, Consciousness, Creation

  Jeffrey Veen (1997). “Hot Wired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites”, Wired Books

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• It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology are teaching us how to work with the checks and balances of nature, and encouraging a new, rational, limited-input, environmentally sound means of vineyard management that offers a third way between the ideologically driven approach of Biodynamics and conventional chemical-based agricultural systems.

  Jamie Goode

  Teaching, Wine, Mean

  Jamie Goode (2005). “The Science of Wine: From Vine to Glass”, p.60, Univ of California Press

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• For every two degrees the temperature goes up, check-ins at ice cream shops go up by 2%.

  Andrew Hogue

  Ice Cream, Two, Degrees

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• It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . . It is subversive for commissions like this to spread hysteria and intimidation throughout the land that Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to read progressive magazines, afraid to make out checks for liberal causes, afraid to join organizations, afraid to speak their mind on public issues. Americans dare not be free citizens! This is the destruction of democracy.

  Florence Luscomb

  Women, Hysteria, Issues

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• White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

  Peggy McIntosh

  White Privilege, Clothes, Special

  "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh, first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), pp. 10-12, July/August 1989; later quoted in Thomas Norman DeWolf "Inheriting the Trade" (Chapter 4: The Great Folks), www.pbs.org. January 2, 2008.

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• Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?

  Neil Rackham

  Writing, Clients, Valuable

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• At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor’s safety.

  Mark Lynas

  Safety, April, Enough

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• Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

  Phil McGraw

  Motivational, Jobs, Husband

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in Washington. If I do not like what my local community does, be it in sewage disposal, or zoning, or schools, I can move to another local community, and though few may take this step, the mere possibility acts as a check. If I do not like what Washington imposes, I have few alternatives in this world of jealous nations.

  Milton Friedman

  Moving, School, Jealous

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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