Quotes About Check

I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.

What would happen if the markets suddenly questioned our ability to keep public finances in check? What would be the effect on growth?

It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent.

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

The highest officers in the government had the strongest motives to corruption, and therefore could by no possibility attempt to check the same corruption in those below them…

How can this be your car? (Nick) Well, I wrote a really big check that didn't bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened…the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron)

Boy, you better check that tone. (Wulf) Yeah, yeah, ya scare me. I'm even wetting my pants while in your terrifying, gut-wrenching presence. See me shiver and quiver? Ooo, ahhh, ooo. (Chris)

Your Dark-Huntress, Danger, called for Acheron and since he's busy, I was sent to check things out and report back to him on what's happening. So here I am. Joy, oh joy of my life. (Alexion)

Not a mark on it. (Joe) Yeah. Wanna check the backseat, where Steele is sitting? I'll bet there's a big stain there. (Tee)

you need to check that tone, boy. Remember, I used to kill people for a living, and I ain't been up long enough to have much tolerance right about now. knock it down a notch before I forget I'm supposed to actually like you.

Being on daytime TV has its benefits. You can still have a life and you know you have a check coming every week.

He said he had a plan, something he wanted to check out, but he didn't want to discuss it and raise my hopes prematurely. That was the last time i saw Stanley Cohen.

In a democracy, there is no check against despotism, because the principle of democracy is supposed to be itself a check. But it guarantees only that the majority will not be despotically ruled.

Hence the duty of the good citizen who is free from the responsibility of Government is to be a watchdog upon it, lest Government impair the fundamental objects which it exists to serve. It is a necessary evil, thus requiring constant watchfulness and check.

So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.

The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run.

Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

I've gotta check, but I think I'll be the first UFC fighter in history to have the lead role in a big movie.

It will be up to Congress to check the president's ambition of committing the U.S. to an international green scheme that will produce little or no return.

It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.

People are savvy enough to know that simply a threat of litigation is tantamount to a nice, hefty check.

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.