Checks Quotes - Page 12

• Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.

  Richard Steele

  Love, Education, Behaviour

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• Yesterday was Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Rabbit. And here's how dumb I am. I'm still writing the Year of the Pig on my checks.

  David Letterman

  New Year, Writing, Years

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• Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.

  David Letterman

  Writing, Two, Needs

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• Follow your heart, but check it with your head.

  Steve Jobs

  Heart, Follow Your Heart

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• I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

  Will Rogers

  Mother, Wisdom, Elephants

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.25, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

  Henry Clay

  Party, Political, Politics

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• The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.

  Matthew Arnold

  Education, Ignorance, Science

  Matthew Arnold (1868). “Schools and Universities on the Continent”, p.260, Macmillan

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• There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.

  Will Rogers

  Book, America, Secret

  Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

  St. Jerome

  Scandal, Tongue, One Love

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• Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother was German and my maternal grandfather was Greek. The next time I fill out one of those forms I am going to check 'Other' and write in the truth about my racial and cultural heritage: 'African-Greek-German-American.' And proud of it.

  Michael Shermer

  Writing, Grandmother, Thinking

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.251, Holt Paperbacks

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• Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Writing, Cash

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• I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine.

  Natalie Portman

  Immature, Sometimes, Realizing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

  Jimmy Iovine

  Song, Looks, Streams

  "Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue Talk Filling the 'Hole' With Apple Music". Interview with Steve Knopper, www.rollingstone.com. June 8, 2015.

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• It got to a point where there were so many apps and stuff on my phone that I started getting overwhelmed because there were so many things to check. Just Instagram and Twitter are what I stick to these day.

  Kaitlyn Dever

  Phones, Stuff, Sticks

  Source: collider.com

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• I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sound, Comedy, Stand Up Comedy

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Running, Memories, Selfish

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.353, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Hiroko Sakai

  Inspiration, Needs, Painting

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• A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Evil, Giving, Economy

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

  John F. Kennedy

  Law, Community, Shadow

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

  William Wordsworth

  Daughter, Art, Light

  'Ode to Duty' (1807)

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• [Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

  Winston Churchill

  Tyrants, Balance, Fool

  Randolph Spencer Churchill, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1983). “Winston S. Churchill: Companion Vol. V, Part Three, the Coming of War 1936-1939”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Thinking, Novelists

  YouTube Channel "Talks at Google"/"George R.R. Martin", www.youtube.com. August 06, 2011.

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

  Harper Lee

  Children, Pain, Men

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.

  Donald Miller

  Father, Men, Thinking

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.18, Thomas Nelson

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• I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mean, Giving, Going Away

  Louisa May Alcott, General Press (2016). “Little Women (Illustrated Edition)”, p.84, GENERAL PRESS

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