Checks Quotations

There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain.

I could have just received royalty checks every month by lending my name to a collection, but I didn't want to do that. My name is a reflection of me.

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

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.

I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.

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

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

The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote. The reason it's bad is because we have people who believe that by making government bigger by keeping people on unemployment checks and on welfare we're going to dig us out of this mess.

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.

I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by the ruling class in Washington.

Be very professional because it will get you a lot further. You have to treat people with the same respect whether they're signing your checks or cleaning up after you.

I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd and least lamented dead genres, the disaster pic of the '70s. It's a little better than 'Earthquake' but not as good as 'The Towering Inferno,' because it doesn't star Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.

Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.

There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data... They don't want their industry publicised.

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say, 'Unless it's politically uncomfortable.'

Young people often aren't in a position to write checks to charities. But there are two things they can do that are invaluable. One is volunteering, especially mentoring other young people with reading, math or help thinking about college. Through iMentor, one can even mentor people online.

I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything.

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.

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

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

From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.

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

My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.

I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records.

Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

I tell jokes for a check; I'm on TV for a check.

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. A personal firewall such as Zone Alarm and running a program like HFNetcheck, which is a free download for personal users. It checks your system to see if anything needs to be patched. I'd also recommend a program such as SpyCop to periodically check for any spyware on your system.

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

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

Marco Rubio is interesting because he checks so many boxes when you think about what a Republican nominee needs. He brings Florida, he's young, he's Hispanic, the Tea Party likes him. But that said, he's got issues, actually surprisingly, ironically, with Mexican-American voters.

There's a feature on Facebook where you can enable security that checks the device you're coming from. By default these features are likely off, but as a consumer, you can enable them.

More than 2.3 million shoppers are already using Pay By Touch throughout the United States to make purchases, access frequent shopper programs, and cash checks at more than 2,000 retail locations. We've seen enormous consumer interest in Pay By Touch for its ability to enable a faster, more convenient and secure way to make purchases.

More and more people are doing their giving with a few clicks of a mouse rather than writing and mailing checks because it's faster, easier and more cost effective for the charities they support. That's especially true in December, when people make most of their donations. This December, we're seeing the online giving trend on a remarkable scale with double last year's contributions, despite the fact that people already gave so much online for disaster relief this year. We applaud Yahoo! for helping to encourage this outpouring of online giving and ensuring more resources get to many charities that need our help more than ever.

one of the more controversial and colorful figures in Texas. His company has been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years for violating state environmental laws. And a decade ago, Pilgrim appeared on the floor of the state Senate dispensing $10,000 checks to lawmakers as they debated a workers compensation bill.

My uncle out in Texas Can't even write his name He signs his checks with Xs But they cash 'em just the same

My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.

Some companies want background checks so quickly they tell you to call them as soon as you have the information. But they will have needed a warm body, so they'll have already hired the person, I've found murderers, rapists, anything imaginable.

Some credit unions may not offer things like safety deposit boxes, cashier's or certified checks. We've actually had clients who weren't able to get those type of checks from their credit unions.

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

No one should be working until those background checks are completed.

Maybe the person we apprehended assumed someone else's identity -- identity theft -- or it's an incredible coincidence that these men both had the exact same name and date of birth. If it's not him and he's released, that's showing that the system's checks and balances are in place and they do work. ... If it's not him, it's important that he be allowed to go free.

Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away with. When you're out of office, I guess you're freed from those checks and balances.

Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness.

Now the question is, what is the pent up demand? Obviously, that's a difficult thing to gauge but I believe it is fairly significant from all the carrier checks I've done and RIM is clearly the still the market leader by a long shot and has the best products on the market.

Obviously someone had the key to take out the urn and put in the potato chip can. One would think there would be checks and balances, but there was an apparent systems failure.

Peyton comes to the line, and he checks to a pass or a run, and I come to the line, and I check from a blitz to a zone, ... I think it's great for the fans to see, but it's actually more stressful when you're on the field, because you're actually trying to figure out truly their next move. He's good at it.

I have called for additional checks to be carried out in order to guarantee safety and not to wait for the regular safety inspections,

If we line up in the same spot all the time, they always know where we're going to be. Any time we can move around, try to be disruptive, that makes the offensive line have to make checks and calls. We go in and out of things to keep them off balance and not knowing what we're going to do.

When this kind of power is used in the regular criminal justice system, there are some built-in checks and balances. The intelligence context provides no such protection. That's the main problem with these kinds of secretive procedures.

Let's say you find (one) who can really play the game and deliver bone-crunching checks and fight with the best of them. If you can find a guy who can do that, you would definitely go after him. But it seems the heavyweights are going by the wayside.

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She is cashing checks for Dan's campaign and voting on zoning applications from the donors. I don't want to throw mud, but this issue smells a bit.

Scotty writes all checks and approves all checks. There is no board oversight.

She wrote herself 31 additional payroll checks totaling 25 thousand..

Send the families to us, ... We don't have much for older adults without children, but we can help families out financially with benefit checks and food stamps. Those who haven't ever applied for food stamps will still be able to fill out an application.

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

Free money you never have to pay back. It may sound unbelievable but every day people and businesses are receiving government grant checks in the mail for doing nothing more than asking.

I got better money playing live and some publishing money - I still get checks from publishing. But the label was always recouping advances.

I'd venture to say there aren't too many other programs in the country where the head coach of a Division I football program checks class. And it's an eye-opener for those student-athletes, I guarantee you, when they're five minutes late for class and there's the head football coach standing at the door tapping his foot looking highly displeased.

If 96 percent of the checks I get (to fill a prescription) goes to the drug companies, that tells you something is wrong.

From the start of her career, Miss Stella had been allowed to race with the wrong name and pedigree, and even her lip tattoo was incorrectly consistent with the foal papers. It was a close call as to whether or not this horse should have run at all. But it was dedicated follow-up work and this department's system of checks and balances that has corrected this ongoing mistake and prevented its perpetuation.

Because so many of these cases come up, the person usually gets off with a misdemeanor. This is especially true if the checks are under certain dollar amounts. Criminals sometimes know more about how the judicial system works than their victims.

I have a real problem making checks on a place not legally licensed. I recommend it be shut down immediately.

He's a big key to their club and he represents a lot of their speed. We try to make sure we all finish our checks on him . . . even the smaller hits, hopefully we wear him down a little. The more hits we can get on him the better.

What we will do is make a copy of that check and keep a separate tally of those checks and then turn those over to the Poshard Foundation and they have opened up a separate account and will make another copy of the check so we have a check and balance of who's giving. Every penny will be accounted for.

He's aggressive. He finishes his checks and it's going to be important for us to be physical against (the Rangers).

We are fully allowed to give gifts to our members. We paid for it, and we have all the checks to reimburse the party for it.

We made some different checks here and there, ... In the third quarter we were saying 'It's on us, if we don't let them score we win.'

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

He was great. He goes for it and the way he finishes his checks really energizes us. It's so important to have that.

He was questioned by Port Authority Police at 8 a.m. and several times since then. His story checks out,

He didn't want her to be around her friends. I used to call her everyday until she said 'don't, because he checks the caller ID at lunch.' I just stayed away because I didn't want to hurt her feelings.

I am amazed about the caring and the giving from the community. We're not getting $5 and $10 checks but $50, $100, $250. They are just opening up their wallets and that keeps the shelters open and provides food....It's wonderful to see the caring from individuals to help others they don't even know.

If the trend with pre-retirees continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially.

If the trend with pre-retires continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially.

If some guys couldn't stand the heat, then they didn't belong in the major leagues. I don't know anybody who refused the World Series checks I helped them get.

If the checks aren't done, then that's a mistake. You can't afford to take the risk with officer-level positions in public companies.

Here's what I tell them: Each day you're making a deposit. The more deposits you make, the bigger checks you can write.

This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.

Hopefully, they're in a paper bag or a shoe box somewhere. But if you don't have the actual receipts, payments will be noted on your bank statements. Most banks print out copies of the checks you've written during the year.

He's done an incredible job about finding the right chemistry, finding the right knowledge and finding the right fit. He did a great job of background checks and just trying to cover all his bases.

He felt uncomfortable. Just as a precaution he wanted to have tests to make sure that he checks out okay.

He has thrown the ball well. He is starting to pick up our checks at the line of scrimmage.

That doesn't resonate with people who write 10 checks a month.