Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Phil Jackson

Most of it's about the quickness involved. Just the activity to the ball. Loose balls, tip-ins, all those little things make such a difference in a game. And that's a matter of seconds, and I think a lot of that is about energy.

Merger and acquisition activity is usually looked at as a positive for the market as it eventually brings fresh cash into hands of managers.

Merger and acquisition activity in Europe has taken off over the first two months of this year. A total of 1,100 deals have been announced over this period.

Merger/acquisition activity was the second leading cause of job cuts (in January), behind cost-cutting. It will continue to be among the top job-cut reasons this year as an improving economy and increased competition force industry consolidation.

Michigan Sentiment may be the key to activity today. Otherwise it may be a case for waiting for some confessional news next week and the next quarter's results from Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers often a good barometer of economic and business activity.

Whoever that wise man or woman was who said 'location, location, location' knew what they were talking about, because this side of the street doesn't get the activity that the other side does.

We haven't seen much activity on the Internet from the traditional ad agencies. They have had their head stuck in the sand,

We just are not really able, at our current staffing and current (oil) activity levels, to keep up with reclaiming the land and getting it back into productive use.

Ann Bancroft

You know, if I look at this activity as my whole career, this is my peak moment. I've been building for this my whole career.

You can have just a lot and the building doesn't exist anymore, but it's an attraction for criminal activity and trash and the city can't declare it blighted anymore.

The activity was not objectively directed toward the taking . . . (and) in all the circumstances (it) could not have been avoided,

The activity is definitely a lot skewed towards financial sponsors and leveraged-buyout-type companies coming to the public market. We think that trend is going to continue.

The activity in the bullion market remains very impressive, with aggressive buying of any dips and a dearth of selling in the rallies helping to create a bullish chart pattern of higher lows, and higher highs, thereby attracting more momentum-based fund buying.

Ralph Klein

The amount of activity now taking place in Fort McMurray with the oilsands is nothing short of phenomenal,

The American Fire Safety Council strongly supports this activity and believes that as electronic technology and design features continue to evolve, appropriate fire safety protection must be maintained.

That when you get an adult that comes into an activity like that and tries to exploit young people I think is a tragedy.

I was really encouraged to see the rebound in activity in June and July. The local economy looks much healthier this summer than it did this past spring. However, a clear up-trend is not yet in place and probably will be slow to develop given the punishing level of energy prices and the prospect of more consolidation in the auto industry.

We have not seen this level of aircraft carrier activity for a couple years. That number of aircraft carriers in the Pacific under way, in close proximity to each other, (hasn't happened) in 10 years.

The present era has no comparable referent in the past history of capitalism. We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodom and Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.

Those cities are the hub of activity for the Gen X market. Eventually the Web site will expand and we want people to visit places outside of those metro areas.

Henry Paulson

Weakness in the capital markets, compounded by an erosion of corporate and investor confidence, has depressed activity in a number of our most important businesses, ... While we have seen some encouraging economic data of late, the current environment remains very challenging.

We are indeed aware of criminal organizations that wear military-style uniforms, use military-style equipment and weapons and employ military-style vehicles and tactics while conducting illegal activity in border areas.

We know that a 5 to 10 percent weight loss has significant effects on blood glucose and on blood pressure and triglycerides. If you put them all together -- healthy weight, healthy eating, physical activity -- you will find on every level that you will see a reduction in diabetes and heart disease,

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.