Top 1200 Background Checks Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that.

Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

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

When the day comes, I remember how much I loathe flying. I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

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

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

We are a democracy: there are enough checks and balances in our country, and we have an impeccable record of not contributing in any way to nuclear proliferation.

So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

I will say that I'm proud of my connection to DC comics because they are absolutely fabulous in sending reprint royalty checks.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.

Allowing staff to dictate frameworks and policy outcomes without appropriate checks by elected leaders has corrosive effects.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

Physical money, whether it's checks or cash or credit card, are digitizing in front of us.

You get a world-class athlete like Hershel Walker, who was a Heisman trophy winner and did some amazing things, but he had a martial arts background. He did kickboxing. He had a combat sports background. It was just rekindling that training and that martial arts workout ethic. He got back into it and did quite well.

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.

I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there's a misconception that an actor who works primarily in comedy is a comedian. There's nothing wrong with being a comedian, but I'm absolutely not that. I can't think of anything more terrifying than doing stand-up!

Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.

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

Everyone is aware of the fact that visual and auditive perspective are identical; the only difference being that they are created and perceived by two physically different organs, the eye and the ear. How often the playing of a great master makes us think of a picture with a deep background and varying planes; the figures in the foreground almost leap out of the frame whereas in the background the mountains and clouds are lost in a blue haze.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

One thing we know about government after the New Deal is that checks and balances through whistle-blowing is terrible policy.

We prefer paychecks to welfare checks for the American people and a robust middle class with rising wages.

My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Do people who believe in reincarnation ever say, Darn, I'm still writing the year 1612 on my checks!

The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

I have the fear of losing everything. At times, I get these reality checks which make me aware of what a privileged life I lead.

Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They're stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

I didn't make good money on 'Nightmare' until part three. I eventually got some nice merchandising checks.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.

If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in.

The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and their background and have fun with them; something you are discouraged from doing with a script. With the novel, I can tell you what the characters are thinking, I can tell you their view of the world, background information, things I wouldn't dare touch in the script.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.

There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

I think, with the administration they do Constitutionally-mandated things most of the time, but they don't - they fulfill the letter of their obligation to checks and balances, but not the intent.

It's true that robust governance structures, checks and balances, transparency of markets, directionally leads to... less vulnerability to corruption.

If I have a roof over my head and if I'm cashing checks and choking some necks I'm always happy.

Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium - or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave.

Fact checking Donald Trump is a really... It is kind of fun but it is ungratifying because nothing checks out.

I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling a story you need a background. Just like a novelist needs background information to make a story interesting, I think an artist needs it for a picture too.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

Exit checks are absolutely critical to monitor if those who come into the U.S. on visas actually do in fact leave the country when their visa is up.

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

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes.

Our system of checks and balances requires policymakers to have accurate information about government actions.

I want to hear Damon Lindelof complain about broadcast when he goes to the bank to cash his 'Lost' checks.