Checks Quotes - Page 2

• Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

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• Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.

  Ann Richards

  Believe, Years, Gasoline Prices

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• I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Memorable, Games

  IGN Interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

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• As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Neurosis, Disease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.24, Harvard University Press

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• If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

  Patty Murray

  White, House, Balance

  "Bush, Clinton in campaign blitz", www.cnn.com. November 2, 2002.

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• When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

  Carroll Quigley

  Country, Issues, Gold

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.

  G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

  Nba, Today, Beats

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• The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.

  Jock Sturges

  Kids, Artist, Enjoy

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.

  Payne Stewart

  Winning, Guy, Down And

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• We must have systems of checks and balances to make sure that those people who are making critical decisions for our country are held accountable, and nowhere is that more important than in the area of national security.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Country, Critical Decisions, People

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• We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage.

  John W. Snow

  Eye, Stage, Inflation

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• I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

  Jim McDermott

  Giving, President, Blank

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• I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.

  Hermann Maier

  Motivational, Past, Momentum

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• [T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Law, Judging

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

  Grace Napolitano

  Retirement, Benefits, Half

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• Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

  Ace Frehley

  Thinking, Makeup, Pay

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

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• Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Progress, Moral

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• You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

  Darrell Royal

  Fall, Thinking, Lakes

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• Power ought to serve as a check to power.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Power, Ought

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• The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our country and under our own eyes.

  George Washington

  Country, Eye, Exercise

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.226

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• Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

  Joichi Ito

  Media, Democracy, Cash

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• All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

  Joan Armatrading

  Journey, Together, Sound

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• It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

  Derek Jacobi

  Distance, Civilization, Hard Life

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• But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.

  Delta Burke

  Hollywood, Resumes

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• Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run.

  Matthew Lesko

  Running, Transformation, Payment

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