Checks Quotes - Page 12

• Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job. When you're the director, you kinda do all the work. I'm actually going tonight to check the prints of my movie even though the premiere's tomorrow night.

  Brett Ratner

  Jobs, Night, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Doors, People, Laughing

  "Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews Interview TOOTH FAIRY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 19, 2010.

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• We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.

  John Armstrong

  Mother, Nature, Hands

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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

  Robert Orben

  Figures, Bounce

  "Title: Alison DaRosa" by Alison DaRosa, Evening Tribune, Union-Tribune Publishing Co., p. B-1, November 26, 1985.

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• A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

  John Dryden

  Poetry, Priests, Satirical

  John Dryden (2016). “The Works of John Dryden, Vol.2: Top English Literature”, p.292, VM eBooks

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• One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.

  David Brin

  Reality, Rose, Joy

  David Brin (2009). “Earth”, p.251, Spectra

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• It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed.

  George Washington

  Government, Constitution, Liable

  George Washington (1997). “Writings”

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• There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

  George W. Bush

  Army, Punishment, Promise

  "Governor George W. Bush - 'A Distinctly American Internationalism'". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, www.globalsecurity.org. November 19, 1999.

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• For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with temper tantrums and an exploding diaper--I know taking 10 minutes to get my game face on will reset my stress levels. It's a chance to check in and remind myself--you got this.

  Jessica Alba

  Stress, Makeup, Games

  Jessica Alba (2013). “The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You”, p.64, Rodale

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• women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

  Martin Luther

  Girl, Behinds, Fronts

  "To His Housewife" (An Seine Hausfrau), end of July 1545 in "Dr. Martin Luthers Briefe, sendschreiben und bedenken: vollständig aus den verschiedenen ausgaben seiner werke und briefe, aus andern büchern und noch unbenutzen handschriften gesammelt" by Martin Luther, Volume 5, p. 753, (No. MMCCLXXXVI), 1828.

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• Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.

  Owen Feltham

  Wall, Humble, Humility

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The heart of God through his creation stirs, We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers That die to live again, his messengers, To keep faith firm in these sad souls of ours. The waves of Time may devastate our lives, The frosts of age may check our failing breath, They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death.

  Celia Thaxter

  Pain, Flower, Heart

  Celia Thaxter (1872). “Poems”, p.31

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• The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check.

  Theodor Adorno

  Strong, Men, Intellectual

  "Minima Moralia". Book by Theodor W. Adorno, 1951.

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• I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.

  Cole Porter

  Baby, Wrecks, Bottom

  1936 'You're theTop', from the showAnything Goes.

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• I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

  Mitt Romney

  Opportunity, Government, America

  Mitt Romney's Illinois victory speech, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Girl, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself!

  Glenn Beck

  Girl, Wrecks, Due Date

  "Glenn Beck", transcripts.cnn.com. February 8, 2007.

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• I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

  Henry Rollins

  Done, Alone Time, Me Alone

  "Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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• In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Careers, Transition

  "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul". Book by Douglas Adams, 1988.

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• Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mind, Possibility, Come Up

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “The Careful Use of Compliments”, p.184, Anchor

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• Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Peace, Spring, Real

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.77, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There's no reason that patients can't have electronic access to their complete medical history... Just as people can check their bank account information online or using their ATM card, patients who want to should have electronic access to their medical records.

  Paul Ryan

  Should Have, People, Cards

  "Ryan Coauthors Electronic Medical Records Bill to Reduce Medical Errors, Lower Health Care Costs". paulryan.house.gov. July 12, 2007.

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• Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Past, Law, Evil

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. Puzzled by the nature of the light, they sent one of their members to go and check on it. The scouting moth circled the candle several times and came back with a description: The light was bright. Then a second moth went to examine it. He, too, came back with an observation: The light was hot. Finally a third moth volunteered to go. When he approached the candle he didn't stop like his friends had done, but flew straight into the flame. He was consumed there and then, and only he understood the nature of the light.

  Elif Safak

  Night, Light, Flames

  "Black Milk: On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and Motherhood". Book by Elif Shafak, 2007.

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• Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Window, Ends

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.55

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• I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

  Stephen Collins

  Airports, Role Models, Might

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