Welcome to the world of memorable words and profound thoughts welcome to Check Quotes. Here, we delve into the realm of wisdom, wit, and insight encapsulated within the succinct confines of a quote. Quotes have a unique ability to distill complex ideas into simple yet impactful expressions, making them a timeless source of inspiration, reflection, and motivation.
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A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts. Glenn Greenwald
I’ve never missed a flight. And I don’t see any reason in cutting it close because airports are pleasurable for me: You can go to the restaurant, get a massage, browse books, sit at a bar, check emails. Geoffrey Zakarian
Diet-wise, I practice intermittent fasting, keeping me alert, as the body is using up its energy stores. It keeps my diet in check, so I’m just on black coffee and water, maybe a fruit round 1 P. M. Jax Jones
I read the ‘Deadpool’ series back in the ’90s. I’m not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I’ll check out ‘Archie’ when I’m in the grocery line, but that’s about it. Ryan Reynolds
Most Sagittariuses start off really reserved. You gotta check people out, see what they’re about, and then once we decide you’re cool, then that’s when we become super fun and really outgoing. But first we gotta make sure everybody’s cool. KiKi Layne
And then Dick called and said, I’m going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I’m cheating on Laura. Mary Tyler Moore
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who’s Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts. Chevy Chase
A great day in New York would be to wake up, get a cup of coffee and head up to Central Park for a nice walk. Then I’d go down to the East Village and stroll around. After that, maybe I’d go check out a museum or catch an indie film at the Angelika. Emmanuelle Chriqui
I don’t check Twitter as much or tweet as often because, honestly, sometimes social media is draining and brings out all of the negative things going on. Doja Cat
I do a long sound check. I get there at noon on the day of a show and sit behind the piano and then walk around with the microphone. Then I feel like I have done my homework. John Tesh
I have learned how to say no, and I have to check myself all the time. I’m not great at it still. Women get criticized a lot more for saying no than men do. Reshma Saujani
Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don’t know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what’s going on down there. Cameron Bright
The first really good piece I ever bought for myself was right after ‘Gunsmoke’ started. I couldn’t wait to get my first pay check so I could buy that pinky finger ring, with diamonds and emeralds. Amanda Blake
National security is that old rabbit that’s pulled out of the hat every time politicians run out of other tricks to keep you in check. Barkha Dutt
Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself. Caroline Ghosn
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Hank Stram
I learned this early on in the variety business: You’ve got to give folks responsibility, you’ve got to trust them, and then you’ve got to check on them. Sam Walton
It’s hard to describe what it’s like to live with a concussion. You want to enjoy things like you used to, but you can’t. You wake up in the morning and wonder how you’re going to feel that day: What will my reactions be like? Will I have a headache? Will I have to triple check to see if I unplugged the flat iron? Elana Meyers
One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy. Saint Ambrose
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. Russell Crowe
We were on welfare, and my mom thought you needed the government to survive. ‘Don’t try to make it on your own, because it won’t be enough. The kids won’t be fed:’ My mom believed that lie. So I’ve lived with a poverty mentality. But after I got my first job, at a local McDonald’s, and I got my first check, I felt such a sense of pride. Lauren Boebert
Sometimes a line enters your head, and you’re so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it. Lin-Manuel Miranda
Airline pilots are men to be admired and respected. Men to be trusted. Men of means. And you don’t expect an airline pilot to be a local resident. Or a check swindler. Frank Abagnale
Check out London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton real estate prices, as well as high-end art prices, to see what the leading edge of hyperinflation could look like. Paul Singer
Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check. John W. Snow
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my basement… let me go upstairs and check. M. C. Escher
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get. Warren Buffett
My uncles are always busy away acting, so I barely even see them much at all, but I always know that they are so supportive. Anytime I do see them, they always check up on it and make sure everything’s okay and let me know that they’re there for me. Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
That’s what the CTC means, whoever cuts that check, that’s who I have to play for. Rasheed Wallace
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. Albert Camus
Sometimes I feel like a 16-year-old who’s got a blank check. Dan Bilzerian
We need commonsense measures, gun control measures, that save lives. I think that it is important that we keep the firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill and criminals and terrorists. And I also think, by strengthening our background check system and expanding mental health treatment, we can do that as well. Catherine Cortez-Masto
Nobody’s tuning in – let’s check the TV Guide listings and see what game Joe Buck is calling. Nobody cares. They want to see the Cubs. They want to see the Packers. They want to see the Cowboys. They don’t care who’s calling the game. Joe Buck
Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They’ll stay faithful as long as it’s safe and doesn’t involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. Charles Stanley
Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we’ll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check. Marianne Williamson
Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied. Joe Biden
You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart. David Rockefeller
I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register. Mike Tyson
You’ve got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket – you might have caught a fish. Darrell Royal
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell. Jarrett J. Krosoczka
I love chocolate, and I love ice cream. That’s a double whammy there. I constantly have to check myself and say, ‘I’ve already had dessert today.’ Tony Cardenas
Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities. Martin Heinrich
I really am a full-blown Scorpio. Whenever I look things up about my sign, it’s like, Check, check, check: thoughtful, detailed, moody, stubborn, prideful, emotional. Selah Louise Marley
In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there’s a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second. Alan Moore
I always assume that a chick is not into me. So it’s never natural for me to be like, ‘Check out that girl in the corner. She’s waiting for me to come up to her. I’m gonna to work my six-step process…’ Dylan O’Brien
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We need to build on what we know works – local oversight of schools to keep a check on performance, timely interventions in schools to support those at risk of failing, and partnerships between schools to help each one to improve. David Blunkett
I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails. Taylor Swift
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that… the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations. Andrew Jackson
When I travel abroad, because I’m Columbian, I’m always one that they check twice and security and I’m the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa. Sofia Vergara
Sharks don’t particularly have a great interest in divers. It seemed that in a normal dive, I would jump in the water, and one or two gray reef sharks would swim in and kind of check me out – and then they would keep their distance. So they weren’t particularly threatening or anything to be afraid of. Brian Skerry
Pele featured in the Brazilophile imaginary as the a figure of non-utile excess, a carefree artist in the Nietzschean sense, indifferent to the narrow teleology of winning matches… check the way that most of the endlessly replayed footage we see of Pele is not of him scoring goals, but audaciously missing chances contrived by force of wit. Mark Fisher
It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. George Horace Lorimer
I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs. Bill Gates
If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. Gelett Burgess
Fear can be good when you’re walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it’s not good when you have a goal and you’re fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before. Queen Latifah
By the time I got into Juilliard, I was working at a Target distribution warehouse. It didn’t make anything, it just shipped things, and my job was just to stand there and look at the security codes on the back of trucks and see if they would lock, and check them in. Adam Driver
Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ’cause it’s life or death for real. Nipsey Hussle
Prenups are so unromantic – a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness – you’re fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it. Suze Orman
When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it’s like to run successful businesses, who know what it’s like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it. Sam Graves
Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever. Murray Rothbard
I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I’ve done, and I say, ‘God, that’s a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.’ It’s a paradox, I suppose, being both things. Jeff Bridges
If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don’t just swallow what politicians tell you. Katharine Gun
Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that’s one of the reasons that make it very popular. Frank Abagnale
We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa – not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid. Gary Johnson
It’s all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward. Sarah McLachlan
Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you’re trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, ‘You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.’ Bill Burr
There’s so much that I like about Pittsburgh, actually. The cultural district and museums are wonderful, and I encourage everyone to check them out. And the food is excellent, too! Troy Polamalu
Don’t be afraid to have a reality check. Taking risks is OK, but you must be realistic. Joy Mangano
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A state of war is not a blank check… when it comes to the rights of the Nation’s citizens. Sandra Day O’Connor
Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast – I don’t eat, I don’t drink, I don’t talk. Dick Gregory
Hank Williams, Hank Jr. and myself, if you check your history, you’ll see that they’ve always played in rowdy environments. Part of that is a lot of people are coming to forget their problems and not being told what to do for a couple of hours and not try to have anything sold to them or pushed on them. Hank Williams III
Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs. Eric Topol
Keep your blood pressure under control and pay attention to your urine. If it’s foamy, that’s not a good sign, and you need to check out your kidneys. Grizz Chapman
The one thing about this Trump fiasco that never set well with me was the fact that everyone loved him until he ran for president. Every rapper, entertainer and actor was chasing a Trump check, then everyone changed on him almost overnight and I thought that was weird so I kept my eyes open. Angela Stanton-King
There’s a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of ‘soul force’ – something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it’s writing a check or digging a well. Sue Monk Kidd
Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone. Marissa Mayer
With the success of ‘Black Privilege,’ of course, the book publishers wanted me to come with another book immediately. They came with the check, but I don’t do things for money. Charlamagne tha God
I’m definitely aware that the physical appearance is a very temporary gift. I’m very thankful for the opportunities that I’ve been able to experience, but I keep it all in check and don’t let it consume me. Marisa Miller
I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens. Jackie Robinson
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. Walt Disney
My favorite movie is ‘Coach Carter’ so I would definitely tell anyone who hasn’t seen that to check that out. Zion Williamson
As long as somebody ‘CTC,’ at the end of the day I’m with them. For all you that don’t know what CTC means, that’s ‘Cut The Check.’ Rasheed Wallace
If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. Dan Quayle
I get up, upload a video to YouTube, eat, sleep, and check all my social medias, eat again, sleep some more, watch ‘Dancing With The Stars’ and go to sleep for the night. Just your average teenage girl, give or take a decade. Trisha Paytas
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others’ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Steve Jobs
I stand on the black side of issues, philosophically, politically, socially, and for me to not check that box, I felt like, would be some sort of betrayal of not only who I am but also the community I affiliate with. Rachel Dolezal
Democracy is when the people keep a government in check. Aung San Suu Kyi
When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help them and then tip them as well, so I learned my empathy from my dad, and my mum is very empathetic too, but in a very stern way; she will always check my ego. Charlie Puth
Carpe per diem – seize the check. Robin Williams
If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check. Mahalia Jackson
Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there’s something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off. Jim Woodring
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. Ayn Rand
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. Jesse Jackson
On my income tax 1040 it says ‘Check this box if you are blind.’ I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. Tom Lehrer
Don’t let your mouth write a check that your tail can’t cash. Bo Diddley
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts. Thomas Sowell
You can so easily be dismissed as a thug or hysterical if you’re a woman if you don’t keep your rage in check. Adina Porter
Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We’re getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all. Nina Hagen
