Top 523 Checks Quotes & Sayings

Why is my autograph so little in demand, except on checks?

Checks aren't money.

When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

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.

Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.

I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

There was a time when black and navy blue suits were pretty much everything you saw. That has completely changed. People are wearing big checks, checks with browns and blues and shades of gray, and the scale is very large, and some of them are very bold with heavy contrasts.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

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

I can live without a computer. My assistant checks my e-mails.

I loved the idea of doing something that has this misconception about what stewardesses were. And, I also love the idea that these girls were navigating a blatantly misogynistic society, with the girdle checks and make-up checks.

It's tremendously expensive to make a record on the basis of writing checks.

After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.'

when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me

What we can do where we live is advocate again to bring back to life the 10th Amendment, to bring back to life those boundaries in our constitutional system that were supposed to be the critical checks in the checks and balances system. Without them, we lose - gradually, we lose our liberty.

At the end of the day, you're loyal to the people writing your checks.

All I've got to do is win at the end of the day and the checks keep coming in.

Expanding background checks for all sales and transfers of firearms is simple, popular, and commonsense.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy.

In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

We're somewhat lucky here in the United States, where we hope that the checks and balances hold out for many years to come and decades to come. But in a lot of countries, you don't have these checks and balances.

Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.

I know Democrats who have written Lindsey Graham checks.

There's a reason that you hear something like 90 percent of our country wants universal background checks, but we can't get it passed legislatively. If we had a true representative democracy, 90 percent of our elected officials would want universal background checks.

Ninety percent of people support background checks. Which means even people who can't pass a background check support background checks.

What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

Hillary clinton lied about Planned Parenthood and all these mammograms they do and all these precancer checks. They don't do a single mammogram, folks. They do not do them. They don't do checks for cancer. Their solution to everything at Planned Parenthood is an abortion. She lied through her teeth. I don't know if Donald Trump knows that or not. Most people who, "Oh, great work, mammograms, care for women." They don't do anything of the sort. They harvest baby parts and sell them! We now know that.

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.

They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.

Truth matters. Checks and balances matter.

When you're rich you don't write checks.

Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

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

Obama cool, but he ain't sending me no free checks

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

The BJP must nurture the institutions that put credible checks and balances in place.

You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

I'm that dude from the ad about background checks where I put a rifle together blindfolded.

There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.

I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip codes: the checks are sent to the bank that correlates to the routing number. If I manipulate those numbers to a bank far away, it would take longer to get back to the bank, which gave me more time to write more bad checks.

Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office - like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security - are inalienable rights. They are not.

The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters.

In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks.

Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.

We should never waive the checks on government spending that taxpayers deserve.

Even my Mormon sister checks my rankings on Amazon.com.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

I've got to tell you, I haven't received any $500,000 checks lately.

I remember Kenny Anderson. He's got these huge stacks of Fed Ex envelopes. They were super-packed and he'd open it up and it would be all checks. He was always signing his own checks. He would always call me Kid.' He'd say, Kid, always remember to sign your own checks. Don't allow anybody to sign your checks.'

Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.

I like being able to donate my comedy to charity. I'm not a billionaire, and I can't write checks.

Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise.. indeed demand for it.. in a system of checks and balances.

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