Famous Quotes & Sayings

In order to participate in Boy Scout activities, you have to swear an allegiance to God. You can't have a directly government-sponsored activity which says you have to swear to faith in God.

Illinois home sales most likely have reached their peak level in this four-year expansion, and Realtors expect 2006 to see healthy activity in the housing sector with continued favorable price appreciation.

Sam Bradford

I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

Geoff Mulgan

By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children.

Clearly world events are dictating the pace and the activity here. As we've seen in many of the afternoons over the past couple of weeks, individuals and traders just don't seem to be willing to hold positions overnight based on what's going on around the world.

Clearly, we believe in the image of the Olympic Games, the competition, the high-end quality of the whole event. We want to associate our brands with that activity and have now for over 20 years.

Will Durant

Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity

Canada may even regain G7 leadership by the end of this period if, as we expect, the pace of U.S. activity moves down to a sub-three per cent trajectory for the first time in nearly half a decade.

Calls to this tip line should be limited to fraud activity and corruption by businesses or persons engaged in purported contract fraud, procurement or purchasing fraud, and/or fraud of federally funded programs,

Mary Williams

Call it a beautiful coincidence for us. We?re looking to pull out any waste in our production line. We?re focusing upstream in the production process, receiving and assembly preparation. It could come in the form of reducing steps and wasted motions, paperwork or activity that does not add value to the product.

By the time they meet their very own Reading Buddy, the teens are very well prepared. The hour the two spend together becomes an activity both partners really look forward to each week.

Certainly seeing more merger and acquisition activity going on encourages people too because it's a signal to them that things are undervalued.

Certainly merger and acquisition activity will pick up. There are many small- and medium-size companies that need to consolidate to compete, especially in Italy.

Chris Jones

Certain cities are poised to become satellite commercial centers. White Plains is analogous to Stamford in Connecticut and New Brunswick in New Jersey. But New Rochelle will probably never reach that level because it's not as centrally located, and it doesn't have the critical mass of commercial activity to begin with.

But when oil goes up, stocks go down. Crude prices have to crash, but it won't happen until about six weeks after the election. We'll see a lot of activity no matter who's in the White House.

But they are by no means yet approaching the levels of activity seen in 2004.

But the strongest factor by far is water temperature. If the temperature drops, walleye activity will slow along with it.

But the reality is H5N1 activity in a certain place does not mean that we will see a pandemic start there. It could start anywhere. And as always, poorer nations are more vulnerable to disease than wealthier ones.

But the real engine of the Coast's resurrection will be the powerful tax incentives provided by this legislation, principally the accelerated depreciation and private activity bonds.

Business concerns about the potential for a sharp fall in future activity have continued to ease.

Business activity in the services and construction sectors has been accelerating in recent months and is now growing quite quickly, providing momentum for the economy coming into 2005.

This index is designed so that readings over 50 point to expanding activity in the Midwest factory sector.

This increase ... is most likely a result of an increase in the difficulty of stunts being attempted by cheerleaders in recent years as cheerleading has evolved from a school-spirit activity into an activity demanding high levels of gymnastics skill and athleticism.

This increased housing market activity has clearly led to some recent firming in house prices, and there is undeniably a risk that prices could move sharply higher over the coming months.

They're trying to make home prices more expensive, so some of this speculative activity will decrease, and incomes will have a chance to catch up.

They're totally random. We believe this to be the activity of juveniles. Nobody that called in saw or heard anything overnight.

They (the veterinarians) were quite satisfied that the hunt was very humane and that there was a 98 per cent likelihood that all seals that were skinned were in fact dead before the activity took place.

An ordinary person would not see it, ... aggressive Russian intelligence activity in the United States.

Enterprise instant-messaging activity is something that we're seeing greater pick up of in the market. We believe that IM will be as prevalent as e-mail in most corporations within the next four to five years.

During a conversation with Barr, indicators led troopers to believe criminal activity was present.

Each year I try to pick an activity that is a part of pop culture and that kids are interested in.

Each week, we focus on a different theme, which we discuss on the bus ride to the resort. We talk about how to use them on the mountain, in the gear room and in their lives. And, we use them in an activity during the bus ride home.

Early indications show that store traffic and the promotional activity is at lower levels than last year at this time. I wouldn't be surprised if many retailers try to get away with selling merchandise at full price.