Famous Quotes & Sayings

The retail sales are a real blow-out number. They show that economic activity is healthy but they will also ignite fears that the Fed will continue raising interest rates as it takes these numbers as a sign that the economy is still growing strongly.

There's worry about higher interest rates. The bond market has been very weak, and we can assume the higher interest rates are signs of a rebounding economy. This gives people a feeling of comfort, but we also worry about how rates are going to go and whether it will crimp economic activity further down the road.

These numbers include condo conversions and (that) activity increased sharply last year. Since they are lower-cost homes, they pull down the median.

These numbers aren't extreme, but they continue the trend in which hurricane activity appears to be on a multi-decadal upswing.

The seven parties today asked Maoists not to conduct any violent activity directed against the general public even if they broke ceasefire.

Nothing more manifestly distinguishes the Anglo-Saxon than his intense and persistent energy, and he is developing in the United States an energy which, in eager activity and effectiveness, is peculiarly American. This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

Not to say they were physically here, but the data led us to believe there was some activity related to the original World Trade Center bombing that these guys were somehow affiliated with,

Lord Chesterfield

A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.

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David Lereah

The nearby regions picked up a great deal of activity very quickly.

Gisela Dulko

After two days of heavy activity I finally felt much less affected by the altitude, and my game picked up.

It's not about one form of recreation being better than another. It's about an activity that occurs on public land that damages the environment and causes conflicts between users.

David Bailey

It's related in that it's school holidays and kids are not in school. Be it high school or college or middle school. Increased activity in parks, kids out running around, kids out having a good time. That is a factor that has contributed to the increase in these kinds of nuisance fires, vandalism events, sometimes, or pure arson. You always see an increase in activity this time of year.

It's reasonable to expect ongoing high levels of hurricane activity for many years to come and more importantly, ongoing high levels of hurricane landfalls for the next decade or perhaps longer.

George H. W. Bush

Any activity we conduct is within the law. We do not torture.

John Updike

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.

Any activity a driver engages in, besides the task of driving, has the potential to distract,

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.

John Deane

Increased business activity and acquisitions present us the opportunity to reconfigure our operations, and we are excited about the opportunities this new facility brings us.

In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills.

In cold years you have more activity than in warm years,

In its own way, this activity of testifying before the Congress is most like being a professor. You start by giving a lecture. And then you submit, so to speak, to questions from your students. So temperamentally, I think he's very well-suited to this sort of congressional appearance.

In all fairness, it may be down a little right now. I still feel it is a big number regardless. With all the activity with the Strip properties and all their different venues, these taxes are being collected.

In a period when there were a lot of M&A heated activity they, by virtue of being in the penalty box, could not realistically look at anything because there would be a question mark as to whether you could really close any transaction in a reasonable time.

Tom Daschle

I'm very disappointed and somewhat surprised that there has been that kind of activity this early, ... It certainly violates the spirit of the agreement that we just all agreed to last week.

Noise surrounding their activity here in North Carolina is just that, as far as I can tell. Until such time as they can be precluded for any reasons, they're a legitimate bidder.

Richard Davidson

It was a great year for M&A ? although not as good as last year. Bear in mind that it's linked to stock market activity because a lot of buyers rely on their own stock to pay for takeovers.

It's very easy to blame bird migration, because then no one's responsible. Migrating birds may introduce the virus into an area, but it is human activity that spreads it.

I want people with disabilities to know that there's another activity that they can participate in.

They (Crouch and Buchanan) had the unmitigated nerve to stand up to Dr. Reddy's illegal activity and that is the only reason they are no longer working in the jobs they did so well,

They could have said there's a clear acceleration in economic activity currently under way, but it remains at risk of weakening or reversing, owing to the labor market and other factors. To leave it out completely doesn't make any sense to me -- it's as if they think the market's full of dummies.

The warm weather in January will provide a temporary upward boost to housing construction, but activity is expected to taper off in February.

The volatility that we're seeing is ... (because) greater than 50 percent of the activity is program trading. The swings are really violent.