Famous Quotes & Sayings

The core nationwide CPI emerged largely in line with market consensus forecast, so market's initial reaction appeared to be generally limited. There's no fundamental reason to actively sell shares below the 15,700 mark.

The coordinated actions on Thursday serve as unifying activities for our Labor Day schedules.

Jim Burns

The council's main objective is to have someone in place to take care of the routine projects and free them up from the day-to-day activities (to focus on more long-range planning).

The costs of those activities will be by far lower than the massive costs we face if we don't meet this challenge today.

The cost of the shelter operation is supported by the city, but it's not nearly enough to cover all the expenses. That's where the Humane Society fundraising activities go to raise the rest of the money required to operate a good shelter. We aim to adopt out all the animals we can and save as many as possible.

The cost of settling private class action securities fraud litigation continues to rise. The price of poker is going up.

The Cory group will be resorting to mass action,

The capacity of human beings to take actions have truly global consequences is a new thing. This is a big challenge, and it requires some real effort to open up dialogue.

Mike Huckabee

The churches are really acting like churches, ... It has been impressive to me that when we thought about moving certain state resources and assets to an area, the local communities often beat us to the punch.

The Chinese view of the United States is quite suspicious, ... They are not certain of what our strategic intention of them may be and any act that appears to be bullying -- in their terms, hegemonic, unilateralist -- is bound to stir up passions on their nationalist part of the public.

Wen Jiabao

The Chinese side is ready to work closely with the Indian side, by jointly holding celebrating activities of the China-India Friendship Year, to further expand friendly exchanges, strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation, and continuously enrich the contents of the strategic and cooperative partnership between our two countries.

The Chinese side hopes that Iran will resume suspension of its nuclear fuel R&D activities and resume negotiations with the European side as soon as possible.

Jello Biafra

I'm down with both direct action and electoral action. We need both.

I'm done. I'm tired of boxing and last week's bad decision was the last straw. I'm sorry if my actions sometimes upset people.

Patti Smith

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.

I'm not out there actively recruiting all over the country. But there are students who want to go to Penn State who may not be able to get on the main campus right away. Or they may want to play basketball and see we're doing OK, so they inquire about us. I just got a call from a kid from Arizona who wants to come here.

I'm glad to see the government take some action to stop firms from illegally receiving Federal small business contracts, however, I think the fine is too small. This firm received millions of dollars in awards for several years by falsely claiming to be a small business. A one- million-dollar fine is a drop in the bucket for a Fortune 1000 firm. They should be permanently debarred from doing business with the government.

I'm going to get it immediately to get these people off my back, ... I'm in perfectly good shape and could do it if I wanted, but active firefighting is not part of my job.

Ana Gasteyer

I'm happier than I've ever been. SNL is one of the only places you can both act and create characters for a living.

I'm hanging up my banking spurs, but I intend to stay active in the business community.

I mean, why does Syria continue to let that happen unless there's a deliberate decision to do it? There certainly seems to be an unwillingness to take actions to stop it.

Terry Gilliam

I'm not going to talk about it, ... I won't! It overwhelms any dialogue about the actual movie. Besides, I'm actually contractually obligated not to go into it.

Rick Barnes

I'm not going to take anything away from them because I thought they beat us in every way you could be beaten today. From looking at my team out there, I thought they acted like it was going to be (like the first game) again.

Information obtained through the end of March continues to indicate that the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season will be much more active than the average 1950-2000 season.

In international law, states are required to prevent acts of torture, and not turn a blind eye to it.

Lionel Jospin

Inhuman and barbaric acts were carried out by both sides, even if each side tended for too long to deny its own,

In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces.

In hindsight again, you would like to see a higher factor of safety today. But, you really can go back to the same two things: the actual failure mechanism was not anticipated and then the sheer strength at the toe of the levee was weaker.

Uma Bharti

India has become a soft target for Islamic fundamentalists. Moreover, the Uttar Pradesh government has a soft stance towards fundamentalists. It could have acted after the intelligence report but it did not.

India expects Pakistan to act against terrorism directed at India,

In diabetes, a healthy weight and physical activity really help improve blood sugars, and the kinds of food you eat and how much (you eat) does, too.

Indexing is a long-term strategy. It still makes sense to have a mix of index funds and actively managed funds.

Index funds really deliver what they promised, and you don't necessarily get that with an active manager.