Quotes of Check - somelinesforyou

“ Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it! ”

- Edwin C. Bliss

“ We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ”

- George Orwell

“ Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses. ”

- Kevin Nealon

“ To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God. ”

- Helen Keller

“ I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive. ”

- Graham Norton

“ The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it. ”

- Cleveland Amory

“ The only lack or limitation is in your own mind. ”

- N. H. Moos

“ The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything. ”

- Prince Andrew

“ I've never been on a boat. ”

- John Garfield

“ The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's check-books. ”

- Silas Weir Mitchell

“ He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything. ”

- Nelson Rockefeller

“ I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits. ”

- William Paley

“ There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ The power of making war often prevents it. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ One man with a gun can control 100 without one. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ I don't have total control on this; I'm trying. ”

- James Wilson

“ I know, it was a little bit out of control, but hey. It was all fun. ”

- Elisha Cuthbert

“ We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. ”

- Robert E. Lee

“ Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars. ”

- Frederick Langbridge

“ It is easier to repress the advances of tyranny at first, than to destroy it when once established. ”

- Solon

“ Whoever controls the media — the images — controls the culture. ”

- Allen Ginsberg
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