Famous Quotes & Sayings

There will be increased merger activity as global energy companies find buying proven reserves more promising than exploration and development.

There were also signs that housing market activity may be beginning to level off.

There was still a significant amount of activity on that Friday.

The report is stronger than appears on the surface. Unlike other parts of the economy, manufacturing activity moved up, so I would say in general this is a pretty solid report. Utility output was down probably because of the relatively cool summer we had.

There's a lot of activity that's going to be taking place over the next two to three years.

Jack London

There's a lot of activity going, and I think you'll find this kind of activity right now because of the political aspect of this.

There's a huge amount of activity that is controlled by hedge funds, and they're trying to find some performance after a bad last year.

There'll be a lot of short-term specials and apparent flurries of activity that will, on the surface, appear to bring prices down, but at the end of the year there will not have been a lot of progress.

This level of detail is essential in assisting investors make informed decisions on a residential real estate investment transaction. We are a network funded by activity on behalf of our members so it only makes sense, the more educated our members are and the more resources we provide them, the more money we will make for them. Simply put, we only make money if they do.

Jerry Brown

This lawsuit is part of a broader effort to realign economic and industrial activity with ecological constraints,

They really seem perfectly positioned for continued high M&A activity and what we think are going to be pretty good capital markets.

Approximately 80 percent of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, and 40 percent of cancer could be avoided through healthy diet, regular physical activity and avoidance of tobacco use.

approached at a high rate of speed and then conducted activity that in itself was suspicious. There were individuals hanging outside with what looked to be a weapon. It stopped and immediately put itself in reverse. Again suspicious activity. Our soldiers on the scene used established rules of engagement and all the training received ... (and they) decided that it was appropriate to engage that particular car. And as a result of that the driver was indeed killed and the passenger was hurt by shards of glass.

Anything that stimulates activity in the Treasury market is a good thing.

Ralph Fiennes

Any idealistic activity outside of my work is something confined to a few field trips with UNICEF in Uganda,

Any form of hazing must be eradicated from our league. I feel comfortable in stating that the activity which occurred on the Spitfires bus is not common and will never be tolerated.

Asia is home to the fastest growing market in terms of consumers that are able to participate in casino gaming activity due to their increasing levels of disposable income.

A serious downturn in housing activity will have to wait until there is a meaningful increase in mortgage rates, ... For that, we have to wait until payrolls take off and the Fed signals tighter policy.

Frank Smith

As a teacher, you hope you touch people's lives. I'm glad he has found this particular activity as his salvation.

As buyers stepped back from the bargaining table sales slowed. While we are off of the pace of recent years, it is worthy to note there is a lot of buyer activity in the wings. When the market kicks off, most experts expect 2006 to be a good year.

As business conditions improve and new IT projects are initiated, hiring activity is increasing. Competition among employers for the most highly skilled candidates means a more favorable employment market for job seekers.

As a culture, we say we value physical activity and healthy eating, but in reality we're all about convenience and convenience foods because we have such busy schedules.

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Anyone who says this was about the technology has missed the point of the case and the judgment. If you set up a business deliberately to harvest and facilitate infringing activity it doesn't matter what technology you use. This is solely about the misuse of technology.

The bottom line message is that the labor market activity remains robust, and that's not the environment that would suggest a need for a Fed rate cut.

A very likely scenario is this kind of activity over the next several days or weeks.

Already we are seeing e-mails touting stocks on the basis of hurricane activity in the Gulf (of Mexico).

A lot of times we come to check out books, look at books. It's been a good winter activity to get out of the house.

They have been busy with this activity station now for almost 15 minutes. After they sat quietly in Imax for almost an hour, we did not expect that anything would hold their attention for this long, but they are fascinated by everything that has to do with space stuff.

This pickup in monthly house-price inflation is consistent with the continuing upward trend in market activity in recent months and the previous pattern of house price movements when the Bank of England begins to reduce interest rates.

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.