Checks Quotes - Page 29

• Never check your religion at the door. Not ever.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Doors

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• ...unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Men, Fire

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• Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills but raise their pay in the middle of the night. Many Americans-this columnist included-hitherto said tax increases are justified by the budget deficit now say: Give that mob more money? Never. Not a nickel of new taxes until term limits change the political culture on Capital Hill.

  George Will

  Country, Money, Night

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• You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

  Zig Ziglar

  Might, Amount

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• We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'

  Sandy Smith

  Grace, Cry, Insufficient

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• Like most guys, I've always liked watches. I can always check the time on my phone, but having a watch is so much better.

  Andy Murray

  Phones, Guy, Watches

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

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• If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

  Jack Welch

  Meaningful, People, Purpose

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• When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

  Laura Poitras

  Decision, Secret, Important

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• My horse needs to be quiet enough not to draw my attention. You want your horse always aware of you. Be aware of your horse! Fidgeting? Direct that! Think of it as a gift. Do something with that energy; redirect it or it will be a negative. Don't let your horse check-out. A horse wants peace. Trade movement for peace.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Thinking, Energy

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• I pay these niggas with a reality check.

  Lil Wayne

  Reality, Pay

  Song: John, Album: Tha Carter IV, 2011

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• We ourselves are co-called non-linear dynamical systems... I don't feel quite so pathetic when I interrupt a project to check on some obscure web site or newsgroup or derive an iota of cheer by getting rid of pocketful of change.

  John Allen Paulos

  Cheer, Science, Obscure

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• Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

  Charles Lenox Remond

  Character, Color, Obscure

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• You have to almost apologize for saying, please enforce the laws. The laws, that they're [government] receiving good federal dollars to be able to ensure for public safety, which is incumbent upon them to secure on the streets in every city and state across this country. And instead government allows individuals who are a risk, who are a threat, to come back in the country, routinely, regularly without any kind of checks and balances.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Country, Government, Law

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Good Night, Country, Jobs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This week the White House proposed fingerprinting and photographing foreign visitors so they can do background checks. Officials in Saudi Arabia said this will only increase anti-American feelings in the Mideast. Is that possible? Gee, you hate to have people dislike us for no reason. Things were going so well.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, White, People

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• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  Beau Willimon

  Government, Balance, Way

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• Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love.

  Peter Jackson

  Kindness, Believe, Small Acts

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• The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Hard Work, Enemy

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• Before you can write a check, you must first make out a deposit slip; before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into a bank; before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life; if you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Life, Writing, Class

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• There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Soul, Tariffs, Commodity

  "Living Words". Book by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1869.

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• It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Oil, Water, Evil

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• Experience, however, shows that neither a state nor a bank ever have [sic] had the unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power; in all states, therefore, the issue of paper money ought to be under some check and control; and none seems so proper for that purpose as that of subjecting the issuers of paper money to the obligation of paying their notes either in gold coin or bullion.

  David Ricardo

  Issues, Gold, Purpose

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• When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Mind, Blame, Problem

  Thubten Yeshe, Lama Yeshe, Josh Bartok, Nicholas Ribush (2011). “When the Chocolate Runs Out”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.

  Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

  Determination, Anger

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• [In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other-that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.

  James Madison

  Rights, Government, Office

  James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.109, Arcturus Publishing

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