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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

The positive influence of tax rebate checks and lower energy prices is being overwhelmed by the adverse impact of highly noticeable layoff announcements and the turmoil in the stock market,

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.

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.

What we're looking for behind the scenes are background checks for known felons and other things that are publicly available, to make sure these don't get in the hands of a criminal.

We're getting better coverage. Our linebackers are more sound. We're getting better checks and better coverage. Guys like Rocky (Bernard) and Bryce (Fisher) have obviously picked it up for us, and they're rushing the quarterback really well.

We're beefing up checks at land border crossings and international airports. The questioning of travelers will be a bit more thorough,

We're beefing up checks at border crossings and international airports. The questioning of travelers will be a bit more thorough,

Wouldn't you like to write checks when you don't have any money in the bank? ... It's tempting. It's just that the consequences are bad.

We're seeing almost as much interest and concerns in background checks as we were seeing in identity theft about a decade ago.

We're not going to wait for federal dollars to arrive, ... We're going to go ahead and write whatever checks need to be written right now to take care of these people and let them know that people in San Antonio love them.

Whenever you capture information, there should be checks and balances. It's certainly important to bear security in mind whenever you're working with databases.

We want Houstonians to know we're prepared to receive money now, ... I have checks in my pocket and checks in my hand. The time when they can begin sending donations is now.

I never wrote a check to Planned Parenthood.

When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?

If I thought the Lord was speaking to me I'd check myself into Bellevue, and I think you should too.

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

We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don't see how there cannot be [that]. That's life, man. That's life.

We'd go to the local church in that recruit's town or just stand on the street corner and talk to whoever passes by. Background checks may be fine for some, but I don't plan to hire somebody when we can go out and do the same work ourselves. I'd have a hard time anyway trusting anybody other than my coaches.

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

There are multiple checks and balances to make sure what we're doing is targeting ... international phone calls of terrorists, not the conversations between two families coordinating a family vacation. We have very strict laws, very strict oversight. This is a targeted program, and I think most of the American people would be very angry if they thought we weren't doing just this.

There are fees. You may have a balance transfer fee or a convenience fee, and the interest starts right away and the interest rate typically on those checks is very high. Nineteen percent or higher.

There are established legal procedures for obtaining phone records that provide checks against improper access. These legal procedures allow fast access to phone record for law enforcement and provide accountability. That's what missing here, the accountability.

We ran it through its main checks and the system was cleared. Technicians recertified it for use and it's been working fine.

We're around the 50 percent mark, and I have a couple hundred checks on my desk that I have to process.

We have removed 44 lenders for that. We find out about it from consumers, other lenders or our own software that checks whether their rates are within a reasonable guideline of profitability.

The fact is, there are not the checks and balances to make sure the money is spent well.

The process is such that if an official's performance starts to wane because of age, there's some natural checks and balances in the system - coaches, partners, local officials associations. Those things will take care of themselves in a natural way.

The outlook for the farmer owners is tremendously bright. They will receive nice checks in the mail in the next few months, and we will then look forward to communicating with our members about new opportunities.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Patzer sees a check, gives a check.

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

McAfee's vision and strategy is synergistic to our business goals. McAfee takes security beyond traditional virus protection. It has provided us with a multi-layered security strategy that includes proactive protection from buffer overflows and other advanced threats. With the upcoming availability of McAfee's network access control solution, we'll be able to perform checks at the time of network access -- rounding out our system security strategy with highly detailed insight into our compliance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.