Famous Quotes & Sayings

This type of illegal activity is a real concern and keeps our investigative units busy. It is a problem on the regional and national level.

What parents should do, ... is change the types of food they keep in the house and give (children) more opportunities for physical activity so children can eat as much as they want and play how they want.

What is new is that this has become a formalized and organized activity such that the use of the information to force improvements is now a requirement that must be documented.

What I would conclude is that we are backing away from the robust levels of housing activity we saw in the spring and summer of last year, but there is by no means a swoon going on in housing activity just yet.

This will afford an opportunity for students to become educated about the seriousness of gangs, gang activity and gang involvement by the Fall River Police Department and the Bristol County Sheriff?s Department.

This will add another layer of security. This system will give us the potential for 24 hour monitoring capabilities of any activity that occurs water side.

This supports the view that first-quarter economic activity is much better than what we saw in the fourth quarter of last year.

This robust report suggests that the vigorous pace of factory activity ... may not moderate significantly in the near term.

Alan Greenspan

There have been signs recently that some of the forces that have been restraining the economy over the past year are starting to diminish and that activity is beginning to firm,

There has to be a delineation between campaign activity and official activity, ... If I issue a press release that says Mayor Smith will appear and cut the ribbon at the new high school, that is different than saying Mayor Smith is running for re-election, please vote for Mayor Smith.

There has been more capital-markets activity than anticipated and the pickup in volatility has helped proprietary trading revenue.

There has been just enough activity on the big, new shiny aircraft front ... to keep both manufacturers feeling and talking very buoyantly about the future,

There has been a lot of activity in this place. I mean, the owners have been woken up by voices saying 'Hey,' and a blowing sensation in their faces.

There has been a history of neo-Nazi activity in the neighborhood, but no clear evidence this is related to the stabbing.

There has been a fair amount of activity in regulating massage parlors for the past few years. It's not a new issue.

When both exports and imports are surging, that is generally a sign that the economy is in very good shape. These figures strike me as yet another sign that activity entering 2006 was on a solid footing, not about to slow down substantially, as the consensus believes.

We're thrilled with this sales velocity and expect all of the activity around the Oscars to further boost sales and awareness this week and well into next. But truly, it speaks volumes to the strength of the film and consumers' continued love affair with the DVD format.

We thought housing would be falling away as business activity picked up. But what you have now is the two overlapping.

We think we can continue to have a successful skywalk system and restore activity to the street.

David Rosenberg

We think that countries and areas of activity that have been weakest in the last couple of years are likely to see the strongest rebound in growth. Thus, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands should see more marked recoveries than Spain and France, where activity has held up well.

We think this company more than most would be leveraged to an improvement in market conditions and lower rates. Market activity comes back this company has a lot of operating leverage and it should show through on the bottom line.

Michael Penn

We think the risks are that activity will pick up rather more slowly than the bank expects. In this environment risks to rates are lying on the downside in our view, and we continue to expect a 25 basis point rate cut in May.

Edi Rama

I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.

Arthur Koestler

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

John Glover

Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.

The dearth of business activity on the traditional day of rest makes Sunday an ideal time to declare insolvency. Bankruptcy petitions are time-stamped to the minute, instantly dividing a failed company's dealings into pre-bankruptcy transactions and post-bankruptcy transactions.

The real tragedy is that overweight and obesity, and their related chronic diseases, are largely preventable, ... Approximately 80% of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, and 40% of cancer could be avoided through healthy diet, regular physical activity and avoidance of tobacco use.

The real question to come out of the discussion is: what is the public commitment and public investment in higher education. To what extent are we going to invest in research activity in the lab and equipment that goes with it, and to what extent do lawmakers see it tied to young people getting jobs and growth of the economy.

The real potential is getting more volume out of existing customers, not expanding the base. Attracting 21-year-olds that argument's been made for 50 years, but racing has always been an activity that appeals to older people. You need two things disposable time and disposable income. It'll always be a specialized, somewhat eccentric activity that appeals to people who like the intellectual challenge of doping out the races.

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.

We condemn punishment of any activity internationally recognized as free expression whether that punishment takes place in China or anywhere else in the world.

We closely monitored the evolving market and made every effort to participate in a way that was fair and legal, ... Williams does not have and it never has had strategies to engage in illegal or improper market behavior. In fact, Williams prohibited its traders from selling power outside California for resale into California for the purpose of evading the state's price caps even though we did not conclude that the activity was illegal.

We don't want to criminalize consensual sexual activity ... among young people.