Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Larry Coker

We don't condone any activity such as that. That's not how we operate.

We do not envisage any difficulties because there are practically no spheres of activity where the two concerns overlap.

While every other bank on the street was setting record numbers in their investment banking fees, their M&A (merger and acquisition) activity and their brokerage activity, these guys were losing money.

With all of the gang activity around here our parents felt their kids needed to be in a safer environment.

We're dealing with a new era of higher hurricane activity and we realized we need to harden our system to deal with it here in Florida.

We really thought that we would see a lot of activity with people paying their parking tickets and we put the names out on the web with the dollar amount so that if they didn't want to talk to us they didn't have too.

We don't have a cap problem. But, obviously, our activity in free agency would be significantly affected by whether there's a deal or not.

We don't force crystallization. We try to in vitro reproduce activity within the cell.

Unfortunately, we are continuing the bad news by predicting above-average activity for September and October.

Charles Williams

Unfortunately, there is an element in the town that is comfortable with and profits from that activity taking place. I wasn't on the same wavelength as some members of council in terms of development and fighting crime.

Those who are involved in terrorist activity can rest assured that we can reach them.

You have the Baby Boomers having the resources to buy condominiums, betting on the increase in value in the next six months, ... That activity may be the first to feel the crunch if the housing bubble bursts.

We were in the children's zoo yesterday, a bull in the farm yard was snorting and would kind of give you the eye. I don't know if it was because of the weather, the barometric pressure, or if it was just the activity that there was no public around.

George Soros

You have the potential of a breakdown of the entire system if you have a slowdown of economic activity in the center even as inflationary pressures mount, ... We're on the edge of it, yes.

Though sporting a hideous mustache is in no way comparable to the physical pain and mental suffering men with these diseases endure, Movember still forces participants to challenge their manhood on a daily basis. Growing a moustache for men's cancer isn't as feel-good an activity as running a marathon for a cure.

We don't have any severe forecasts for tomorrow. The activity will be today.

Hermann Maier

Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash.

Henry Reed

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

We are regulating the conduct of the student while the student is in school. The student doesn't have the right to engage in gang activity while in school.

We are part of the Boston metro area. The more connectivity that we have, particularly mass transit, the stronger economic activity we are going to enjoy.

Sam Johnson

Postponing legislative activity on the Wright Amendment until October represents an unnecessary and unreasonably long time considering the House calendar.

Nobody can remember a greater investment of resources devoted to public corruption, nor can they remember this level of investigative activity in our public corruption cases.

Near term direction will be determined by flows from Mutual Funds and corporate results. I expect stock specific activity to continue. Use declines to buy this market as we are in a structural bull run.

Jules Verne

On the 31st of October, at ten o'clock in the morning, the troop disembarked on the quays of Tampa Town; and one may imagine the activity which pervaded that little town, whose population was thus doubled in a single day.

George Eliot

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

Ontario believes that the sentencing provisions in the Criminal Code need to send the appropriate message when it comes to illegal firearms. This message should be one of 'zero tolerance' for illegal activity related to the possession and use of firearms,