Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Augustine

The trading and the underwriting activity looks favorable.

Edward Wilson

Human activity equals a decline of the rest of life on earth,

David Stubbs

Gathering strength is evident in several areas of the industry with growth in the housing sector the strongest in almost two years as buyer activity has improved.

Jeffrey Joerres

German employers are saying they will begin to add employees again, albeit modestly, and hiring activity in Japan should be vigorous, beyond what we normally see in the second quarter -- their peak hiring season. Chinese employers say they will reduce their hiring activity compared to last year at this time, while U.S. employers expect to add to their payrolls at a continued steady pace.

Jane Salmon

By the time they meet their very own Reading Buddy, the teens are very well prepared. The hour the two spend together becomes an activity both partners really look forward to each week.

Alan Greenspan

Because there was little retrenchment during the cyclical downturn, the potential for a significant acceleration in activity in the household sector is likely to be more limited than in past business cycles,

Dorien Bryant

He's excited, a year of no type of activity is frustrating because you got to watch, but at the same time it's frustrating for everyone who wants to play. He's really looking forward to it.

Michael Bazdarich

Housing is a major bulwark for the economy. I would hate to think what would happen if and when the housing activity gets tapped out.

Steven Wood

Housing activity remains quite robust despite the slowing economy, decline in jobs, and faltering stock market.

Lenny Goldberg

Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings.

Allen Kenitzer

This was very minor, based on the report, but we look into all crashes whether there are injuries or not.

Jon Mills

This was an unfortunate outcome but, based on the facts and circumstances that our providers had at the time of the case, their response and care were completely appropriate.

Casey Luskin

This was an unfortunate decision based on false fears. These people want to censor information from students.

Tom Kelly

We try use the right level of security based on each individual branch.

Bill Martin

We try to sell what we have based on the fact that it is a good deal. If someone's looking for a (gold) piece, now would be a better time to bargain-shop.

David Chon

With long-bond volatility , the dollar all over the map, and the Dow swinging from one extreme to the other based on perception of macroeconomic numbers, the question becomes how much (of) Latin equities do you want to trade in that kind of environment?

Patricia Ireland

We do not intend to encourage higher courts to consider and possibly create legal precedent that would injure everyday women in the workplace, based on the allegations and evidence of a politically charged case,

Kevin Towers

We felt we had a chance to compete based on the rest of the division,

David Page

Contrary to the dire predictions that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y. This research clearly demonstrates that natural selection has effectively preserved regions of the Y chromosome that have no mechanisms with which to repair damaged genes.

Stephen Stanley

Fed officials have made clear that their heightened inflation concerns are related more to the outlook than the present situation. Thus, inflation fears have intensified even as core measures of prices have been exceedingly well behaved.

Brandon Villarreal

Everything we're doing now, ever since the end of the season, is geared on getting us better prepared to finish games. The close losses aren't something we've dwelled on, but it's definitely in our subconscious. We know how close we've been, and we know we've got to be that much stronger near the end of every drill and every practice if we're going to clear that last hurdle.

Elena Silva

The results of our research are clear: Most college students encounter sexual harassment on their campus. Many, particularly young women, are embarrassed, angered, scared and disappointed in their college experience as a result. And, as a whole, college students do not have a clear or shared understanding of what to do about sexual harassment.

Fred Berkenkamp

The response was very limited, and that was a clear message. Those top donors - and I called many of them - they just felt tapped out.

Russell Lewis

There was a clear obligation to take the run,

Tim Mazanec

There's shift in ranges, but still nobody's going to mistake this for a clear trend reversal or anything.

John Podesta

There should be greater judicial oversight of trap and trace authorities, ... Federal law should make clear that such orders should only be issued after a judicial officer has determined that the proper factual showing has been made.

Brian Cashman

There's no promises in terms of playing time or a role. The clear definition was that going into this, like any of the role players, it would not be an everyday situation.

Helen Fisher

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.

Helen Fisher

When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.

James Hansen

The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences , in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited and may not include the important ones.

George Friedman

So as soon as you want something to happen you begin skewing the data to support it. Our stuff is invaluable to decision-makers precisely because we have no ax to grind.

John Coleman

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

John Brunner

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

Jim Peterson

You'd be literally flying around the data in 3D and all of a sudden see this tower.

Yutaka Miura

The market had already factored in good numbers from the GDP data and there are few incentives to trade on now.

John Brockington

Plunkett was dropping passes in between three guys; he was hitting guys falling down. . . . We were a much better team.

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone.

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone.

Kathryn Minshew

If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.

Katherine Paterson

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

Mark Twain

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Matt Bomer

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

Mary MacLane

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

Neal A. Maxwell

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

Mikhail Lermontov

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

Mikhail Bakunin

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

Margot Asquith

All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light ...

Isaac Newton

If I saw further than other men, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Shelby Seyrafi

Who wants to be No.1 in a market which is saturated and has slow growth prospects near term.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Charles Peabody

It's a really high price and not many people are willing to pay that, so I think Lehman is the more obvious,

Dick Bronson

This is the high point of the year for these kids.

Steve Bolman

Our used portion is about the same size as the old Kenilworth Junior High School.

Margaret D. Nadauld

The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.

Felix Baumgartner

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

Anna Netrebko

As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.

Joseph Bernier

We just didn't have it as a high priority,

Joseph LaVorgna

Treasuries are going to seek higher yields over the next weeks. The labor market looks quite healthy.

Saxby Chambliss

The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Colin Hanks

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

Rick Davis

We didn't have low expectations in Iowa, we had no expectations in Iowa.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Abraham Lincoln

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Alec Waugh

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

Alberto Juantorena

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

Albert Einstein

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

Ali Babacan

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

Algernon Blackwood

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.