Quotes with check-mate

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  • Bastian Schweinsteiger The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.
    Bastian Schweinsteiger
    German professional footballer (1984 - )
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  • Silas Weir Mitchell The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's check-books.
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  • Barney Ross The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Amy Goodman The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
    Amy Goodman
    American broadcast journalist, columnist and author (1957 - )
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  • Dorothy Parker The two most beautiful words in the English language are: ''Check Enclosed.''
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Ben Rattray There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
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  • Bob Dylan They already expect you to just give a check to tax-deductible charity organization.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Sir Richard Steele To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Hesiod Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Andrew Jackson 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
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • John Osborne We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Will Rogers We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Blake Farenthold We have testimony saying, and I think common sense also dictates, that in a failed state like Syria, you don't have any government information, police reports to rely on to vet somebody. So there's no way to do a background check from somebody coming out of Syria. There's no way we can find out whether they're safe or not.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • John Updike What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bubba Watson When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Charles Prestwich Scott When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.
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  • Ann Coulter Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Hershey Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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