Famous Quotes & Sayings

Convoys are the scariest and most high-risk activity a soldier can participate in. You never know when there is going to be a bomb alongside you or even under your vehicle, ... Also, the guns used in combat in Iraq don't create the kind of wounds a street gun might in America. These guns fire at a much higher velocity, creating a lot more damage.

The weakness of activity in the fourth quarter is not at all a surprise for us. It confirms the fact that growth remains low in France.

The weaker-than-expected housing number still leaves housing at a fairly high level of activity but will raise some eyebrows as markets worry about the (Federal Reserve) overshooting (with rate hikes).

The ups and downs of default activity are clearly determined by whether prices are going up by 4 percent, or 14 percent or 25 percent annually. If it's worth more, you have more options.

The unseasonable weather and significant storm activity allowed the customer benefit fund to be used during the first quarter.

This could have several unexpected or adverse reactions. One is that it doesn't work (in terms bringing down prices.) Cattlemen could just hold back production and send fewer animals to market and the prices will keep rising anyway. And if this means less activity for the meatpacking industry, what does that mean for jobs?

David Martin

This doesn't surprise me, as we see this pattern in other chronic pain problems: you can relieve pain, but it's a lot harder to prompt activity changes. A chronically ill person needs more than symptom relief to resume a normal lifestyle. We're now beginning to work on that problem.

This decline in exports is consistent with other data indicating that economic activity in most foreign countries remained weak at the start of the year.

This decision was made during the recall campaign and was designed to limit political activity at state facilities.

This functionality is backed up by Windows Live features like centralized storage and it can be managed from anywhere. We've got Web-based activity reports so that you can keep an eye on what your family is doing online from any location.

This forward-looking index indicates broad optimism that the expansion of manufacturing activity will continue throughout the year.

This bill will encourage criminal activity because it does not provide any means for the legal purchase of medical marijuana.

This area of employment activity seems to be going full bore now. That was the characteristic we saw in the last expansion in the 1990 s. This sector was red hot then and it appears to be taking on that pattern again now.

John Wallace

This activity was, in fact, a completely lawful exercise, and the board should reject any suggestion that it impose (a) civil penalty or refer for prosecutor this matter.

Billy Tauzin

This activity served to deceive the public about Enron's financial condition,

This activity has an MHSA-approved scoring system very similar to track and field. Just getting a seat on a varsity trip is a big accomplishment in our program. To be selected on the state team is a big deal. These kids are the best and brightest.

Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.

Judd Gregg

This is a major step forward in the activity of fiscal responsibility,

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.

Although we have already seen a record-setting seven tropical storms during June and July, much of the season's activity is still to come.

Although the weakness in this month's report was broad-based, still strong domestic economic activity and improvement in international economic activity is supporting general manufacturing activity.

Gary Johnson

Although the investigation is in its initial stages we have found no apparent connection to any type of terrorist activity or group.

Although the full force of the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita will not be fully known for some time, it is clear that the scope of the devastation is unprecedented for the local economies and is projected to slow U.S. economic activity in the third and fourth quarters.

Although manufacturing activity is still expanding, momentum in the manufacturing sector has clearly faded. This report confirms that the FOMC was correct in pausing their tightening cycle at last week's meeting.

Although little should be made of one month's data, the smaller pace of import decline in November is consistent with other recent data that suggest that U.S. economic activity may be stabilizing.

Although IM threats were down this month, companies need to be aware that we view this as a temporary lull in activity and that the threats are going to get more malicious and sophisticated with time. February saw the first ever worm spread over IM networks using the Apple OS X platform. This speaks to the increased sophistication and ways that virus writers are trying to develop worms for different networks and operating systems. Companies need to know that unless they currently have an IM security solution in place, they are leaving their networks open to security attacks.

Alan Greenspan

Although household spending should continue to trend up, the potential for significant acceleration in activity in this sector is likely to be more limited than in past cycles,

Although home buying remains at relatively high levels, and though no longer robust, refinancing activity has slumped. Less refinancing activity should dampen consumer spending.