Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is just one example of illegal activities that are destroying the Amazon. This rainforest is a global treasure that stabilizes the climate and is home to most land life on the planet and to millions of people. It's taken thousands of years to grow and once it's destroyed it's gone forever. Unless laws against these sorts of forest crime are rigorously and urgently enforced to protect the rainforest and its people, we'll have a biological catastrophe on our hands.

Porter Goss

This is just extremely important and it's going to lead to other very successful activities very shortly, I'm sure.

This is intended to be a growth story and will be a growth story. So though we may be exiting some activities ... we will be reinvesting in places we're going to win.

Once Disneyland and Universal Studios became two-day attractions, we began competing with retail, the beach and other activities on the third day. People aren't taking longer vacations or spending more money, so that made it real rough for us.

Not one to be satisfied with just a few activities, Cara is determined to initiate those activities that will encourage more students to provide service for our school and community.

The need was there for horse activities and (there was) lots of interest.

The NCAA has worked with their corporate partners and champions to stage some incredible activities for the fans from what's going to go on the Circle.

Carl Levin

After the war started, the administration began an effort to change the subject of the debate from the actual presence of weapons of mass destruction to WMD programs, then to WMD-related program activities and more recently to speculation about intentions,

It's not about being a woman per se but about activities that women may be more likely to engage in.

Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.

Anyone who chooses to participate in the gardening activities will get a share in the harvest.

It really wasn't conducive to senior-center activities because you couldn't have multiple activities at the same time.

It really comes down to following where the customer wants to go. We see the same customer having the need to do photo printing and activities in the home, online and at retail, depending on the situation and depending on the day. It was pretty clear to us that we needed to have a strong offering in the retail photo space if we wanted to be the leader in photo.

It's not surprising Dubai is moving into these activities because the whole focus of the aerospace industry has shifted eastward in recent years to the Middle East and Far East.

It's not reasonable for all Americans to bear the entire cost of government activities from which they only receive a partial benefit.

It's not new. They increased their activities in Iran two or three years ago and now instead of a reformist president we have a conservative president. That tells you how successful they were.

Thad Cochran

For me, it was the experience of the recent election -- the realization that candidates are now so vulnerable to the activities of organizations who are interested in influencing the outcomes of elections, ... We're defenseless.

Jacques Chirac

I invite the Iranian authorities to make the choice of cooperation and trust by genuinely looking at this offer and by reverting to their commitments to suspend activities linked to the production of fissile materials,

I'm 100 percent sure that if Coca-Cola in Atlanta ordered them to change their uniform color from red to blue, they would do it. They could stop these activities in a minute.

Bill Gates

That license is concrete proof of government commitment to strengthen the awareness and the activities around intellectual property.

It's not going to be that big an adjustment for us. We're in a tough league now and we've scheduled games in the past against some of the others that will be in our new district. They (Arkansas Activities Association) wanted to correct some of the disparity in numbers in Class 2A-and they did that. But now the disparity is in Class 3A and we're still a part of it.

It's not going to be that big an adjustment for us, ... We're in a tough league now and we've scheduled games in the past against some of the others that will be in our new district. They (Arkansas Activities Association) wanted to correct some of the disparity in numbers in Class 2A-and they did that. But now the disparity is in Class 3A and we're still a part of it.

Economic activities nowadays greatly depend on information systems and ensuring their credibility is an important task, as recent glitches at the Tokyo Stock Exchange proved.

Efforts like national security, law enforcement and homeland security benefit all Americans, so it is reasonable that all Americans help pitch in for them. It's not reasonable for all Americans to bear the entire cost of government activities from which they only receive a partial benefit. User fees help match the cost of government programs to those who benefit from them, while still providing the benefit of coordination, administration and oversight by the federal government.

The board of directors has great confidence in them (the internal auditors). We work closely with them to monitor activities and what they do.

Thomas Ryan

The board is fortunate to have Temple Sloan as the lead director. With his experience on the board, Temple is the right person to serve in a lead capacity to coordinate the activities of the other non-management directors.

It's important to our long-term goal of having six humans onboard performing all the research and activities we have planned.

John Thompson

There's a lot at stake. This generation can transform coal used for burning - one of the dirtiest industrial activities on the planet - to, ironically, being one of the cleanest fuels from an air pollution standpoint.

There's a happy medium between doing baby yoga-doing Mommy and Me having a scheduled activity 6 days a week, vs. having scheduled activities 2 to 3 days a week and the other 3 to 4 days should be play time with other kids, or with mom or dad.

Shinzo Abe

This is the kind of survey every country does. I would hope the South Korean side understands this. Japan will calmly proceed with its activities in line with international law.

They're going after Web properties that mirror the demographic of the viewer of The OC ... (following) the activities of what those same consumers do online

They're going after Web properties that mirror the demographic of the viewer of 'The OC' ... (following) the activities of what those same consumers do online, ... buy.

They're not going to time their activities to the American sense of what's right.