Famous Quotes & Sayings

It does not surprise me that the new secretary would take a look at that situation. What does surprise me is that there would be further sanctions after the State Attorney's Office in Tallahassee said they were not convinced that criminal activity had occurred, but I am not privy to everything the new secretary knows.

Jim Craig

It doesn't make sense for us to pay a price that's inconsistent with our model and with our responsibility to our shareholders. We have not been able to agree a price and so we are moving on. There is a lot of activity in Europe at this moment and we are focusing on that.

It doesn't look like it's ending, even though it's relatively quiet right now. We would not be surprised to see more eruptive activity in the near future.

It does seem reasonable to expect that the presence of a brand new regional campus of a major research university along a major interstate highway will help to stimulate investment activity and growth and that those developments would have trickle-down impacts as well.

I strongly encourage the parents to report any kind of activity they see. I would especially ask them to take a look at what your children are doing on the Internet.

Lindsey Graham

I think it would be unfair for him to take a fall if this is just a limited activity of a few people.

We haven't seen much activity on the Internet from the traditional ad agencies. They have had their head stuck in the sand,

We just are not really able, at our current staffing and current (oil) activity levels, to keep up with reclaiming the land and getting it back into productive use.

Ann Bancroft

You know, if I look at this activity as my whole career, this is my peak moment. I've been building for this my whole career.

You can have just a lot and the building doesn't exist anymore, but it's an attraction for criminal activity and trash and the city can't declare it blighted anymore.

Robert Evans

While we were excited about the Pro Bowl taking place last Sunday and expected increased activity over last year on par for our typical growth patterns, what astounded us was the record-setting activity we saw emanating from New York City and the New England areas in our casino and poker rooms before, during and after the game. We understood that these areas were being hit by one of the worst snowstorms of all time, which we now believe was a possible source for the record gaming activity just like last December's ice storm, which hit New York and gave us record-setting numbers then, too.

Whilst partly reflecting the high number of working days in the month, the approvals numbers show that mortgage activity is running at a higher level than at this time last year, although the market is still somewhat short of the heady times of 2004.

Whilst activity levels may have improved over the autumn of 2005 on the back of more realistic pricing, it does not automatically follow that prices will start to rise.

We do very aggressive litigation and trial work. So we prefer an activity that dovetails nicely with that aggressive culture, and hitting a little white ball on the greens doesn't do much for us.

We doubt that economic activity in the euro zone will afford the ECB scope to raise the refinancing rate beyond 2.50 percent.

We doubled in a week. The numbers aren't real high, but it's probably a sign that we're going to see more activity over the next few weeks.

We don't fabricate anything. We get too much paranormal activity on our tour; we don't have to do anything.

Healthy mortgage lending data show that housing market activity extended its recent firmer performance in December. This is also borne out by the latest survey evidence consistently showing increased buyer interest.

If expectations for prolonged zero rates grow excessively, that may stimulate demand too much, cause a swing in economic activity and force the central bank to make drastic policy changes.

I don't see any sign of housing activity having a significant slowdown on a national basis going forward,

Kerry Healey

I am not going to encourage illegal activity here in Massachusetts and I do not want Massachusetts to become a Mecca for illegal immigrants.

I do have this sort of weakening of the housing sector, but I think it should be thought of as a systematic cooling down process toward sustainable levels of activity and not viewed as kind of a classic housing downswing that's part of an economic cycle leading to a recession.

Josh Bernstein

If Congress were able to act, there would be much less activity in the state legislatures.

Eric Thomas

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Over the next few weeks, we expect oil service companies to post strong fourth-quarter results and likely provide bullish guidance for 2006, including positive data points on both activity and pricing trends, which should fuel sharp earnings growth for oil service companies over the next few years and ultimately push stock prices higher.

Pakistan is free to do whatever it wants, and we can't impose a veto on their decision, but I hope that this step will not encourage any Arab country to normalize its relations with Israel in this period, ... We consider that any normalization of relations with Israel in this period would be an encouragement for Israel to continue its settlement activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Overseas demand for autos, IT goods and construction machinery which had long supported the overall economic activity in Japan, is now set to slow down, while input cost for Japanese companies is rising.

P&O is significant for both Singapore and Dubai. Its acquisition will increase their business activity in large amounts in one go.

Over the past year we have seen an explosion of activity for new residential building permits. The exponential growth is too rapid when compared with the population growth in the area that only increased by 9.7 percent in the last two years. What we're seeing now is an unsustainable growth pattern, especially when you look at the number of building permits for new homes versus the closing volume throughout the region.

Our previous research showed that making multiple lifestyle changes -- eating a healthier diet and increasing physical activity -- for a short-term period of six months led to significant reductions in blood pressure. Now we know that sustaining these lifestyle changes for the longer period of 18 months also leads to substantial blood pressure reductions. This is very good news, because the longer people can keep their blood pressure down, the better it is for their heart health. The other good news is that this study shows that people can make and sustain these lifestyle changes over a fairly long time period.

David Thomas

Our physical activity is no longer a requirement and people rely on machines as a major source of transportation.

Brian Ellis

Our goal is 365 days a year, 24-hour activity and we're getting closer and closer. Lots of good things coming down the line, this being one of them.

Our fears have been born out by the reports of several international humanitarian agencies, which have stated that these sanctions have stifled economic activity inside Afghanistan. New sanctions will compound the misery of the Afghan people,