Checks Quotes - Page 4

• Yesterday is a cancelled check;
  Tomorrow is a promissory note;
  Today is the only cash you have,
  so spend it wisely.

  Kim Lyons

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Atlas, Literature

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.152, Hamilton Books

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• The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Business, Guy, Bucks

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• When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

  Piers Anthony

  Glitter, Sometimes, Guilty

  Piers Anthony (1989). “Bio of an Ogre: The Autobiography of Piers Anthony to Age 50”, Ace Books

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• People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

  Walt Disney

  Thinking, People, These Days

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• I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Real, Golf, Play

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• Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, Hero, Men

  "Do Liberals Live Under A 'Tyranny Of Cliches'?". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2012.

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• I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Long, Literature

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• Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.

  Ashley Scott

  Mom, Mother, Hot

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• When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homey.

  Randy Moss

  Sports, Writing, Dumb

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• 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

  Years, Eighteen Years Old, Eighteen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.

  Michael J. Fox

  Doors, People, Proud

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• If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

  Dan Quayle

  Internet Users, Als, Spell Check

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• We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humor, Able

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• Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Believe, Two

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

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• I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

  Tori Spelling

  Night, Bed, Littles

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• I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Believe, Cash

  "Tyson unplugged: On media, fans and his reputation". www.espn.com. May 5, 2002.

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• We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Science, Expression, Advice

  "Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. at 630". Dissenting opinion, November 10, 1919.

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• An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Truth, Lying, Ideas

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

  Rene Daumal

  Change, Autism, Gold

  Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.21, The Overlook Press

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• When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Loss, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.44, CUP Archive

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• Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

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

  Don Drysdale

  Sports, Screw Ups, World

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• We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Nfl, Challenges

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• How long do we have to deal with conservative failure? How long? Thirty years is not enough? So I would say enough with that, and I would say check out the Center for American Progress, and the writings by Patrick Garofalo, economic guru. That's what I would say.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Writing, Years, Long

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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