Famous Quotes & Sayings

Despite signs nationally of a more normalized level of activity with regards to sales pace and price appreciation, our capital investments in these strategic markets afford us a significant competitive advantage and allow us to be well positioned for future success.

Boris Yeltsin

Despite Russia's resolute actions, NATO military action against Yugoslavia continues to escalate,

Shantel VanSanten

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

Determining actual risks is complicated and time consuming to perform, which is why RSEI was developed as a risk-screening and priority-setting tool, and it should not be used to make determinations of actual risk.

Despite what some candidates in this race have said, this action in South Dakota shows there's a chance a woman's right to make her own health care choices could be threatened.

Deploying Windows 2000, IP phones and Active Directory for administration and service delivery is a bellwether for how we see Merrill Lynch operating in the future.

Dependent on the actual species and whether it's grown indoors or outdoors or in glass houses or outdoors, you know you maybe able to target a date like mothers day for example.

George Burgess

A person who is under attack should act aggressively toward the shark.

Any whiff of bad news can cause a thinly-traded stock to act more dramatically than it should. Ultimately, it matters. If a smaller company has to face legal issues, I've got to think it would cause concern.

Jay Watson

Anywhere you have an active level of climbing, you're going to see fixed anchors. There are different kinds of fixed anchors, from a bolt drilled into a rock or an old-time piton hammered into a crack. It's everything from the actual hardware to nylon webbing wrapped around an outcrop. They provide protection for climbers and are particularly useful when you're coming down or rappelling.

Any change in rates on home equity lines is directly related to the actions of the Fed. On average, their rates are 1 percent over the prime rate, but some banks even offer home equity lines at the prime. Home equity lines are probably the cheapest way that homeowners can currently borrow money.

Anybody would think that the end of civilization is going to be visited upon them at midnight tonight, ... But if you treat adults like grown-ups, they act like grown-ups. For too long we've had Nanny bending over us telling us what to do and what not to do.

Anti-virus companies when they get a sample need to act on that quickly. They don't have time in their competitive environment to be able to go out and coordinate and have a nice little talk about naming.

a number of proposals contained in the draft policy would actively discourage foreign direct investment and the associated financing.

A number of other U.S. companies have already taken similar action in the face of these rising costs and increasing global competition. In particular, U.S. healthcare costs continue to rise at high rates. When these benefits were conceived decades ago, no one could have foreseen the explosive cost inflation that we have been experiencing in recent years. These costs are simply not sustainable.

Javier Solana

Any military action is definitely out of the question for us.

James Hill

Any loss of life is regrettable, but we will simply not tolerate acts of violence against our multinational forces or innocent Haitians,

Henry Ward Beecher

Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

Any kind of indiscipline and anti-party activities on the part of cadre will not be tolerated.

Any kind of ecological or human activity that requires snow or snow-free conditions are bound to be affected by that.

Any kind of a military act against Israel ... is condemned and not allowed.

Any credible electoral exercise should have the active involvement and participation of all the mainstream parties.

An important aspect of this act is what they call the single holder rule. When students tend to consolidate loans at the end of their college career the current law requires them to do so with the original loan holder.

And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die

And there'll likely be a four- to six-week interval between the initial filing and an actual hearing. Then the judge has a 30-day window to render a decision. It could be well into the spring.

And then with the Pacific States (Marine Fisheries Commission), to look to the appropriate amendments to federal law. Knowing that it takes an act of Congress rather than an act of the commission.

And then when they would focus their attention away they would see that the brain activity would go down.

Jean Lapierre

And that's why we've been acting in the air field, we're acting in marine sector, and now in mass transit.

An estimated 10 000 members of the four unions will take part in the protest action.

Bob Graham

An error on the part of poll workers pressing the wrong button to activate voting machines prevented many from voting in the Democratic primaries.

Tom Ridge

An emergency is not the time to plan; it's the time to react, so be informed, ... The actions you would take in a conventional attack may be counterproductive if you took them in response to a different kind of attack.

An element of the general strategy employed by the organizers of the terrorist acts was to unleash a wide information and propaganda attack against Uzbekistan involving international human rights organizations.

An effective volume and value growth strategy is critical to the success of our system, ... While this strategy is working in some regions, in other key regions we still have much work to do. The benefit of our actions may not be immediate.