Famous Quotes & Sayings

Activity is going to slow down, we're going to ration energy. How much of an effect that's going to have on gross domestic product, no one knows.

Activity is benefiting from August's interest rate cut, increasing confidence in the housing market and still rising employment. This is likely to put a floor under house prices.

Activity in the manufacturing sector picked up early in the second quarter, in line with strong underlying fundamentals in the economy and stronger overseas demand. We can look forward to solid overall output growth in the second quarter of 2006.

Bill Stewart

Activity increases in all reporting segments and price improvements have contributed to the company's record earnings performance.

Andrew Gould

Activity increases and strong pricing momentum, particularly in North America, drove first-quarter results despite the severe curtailment of activity in Russia early in the year.

Activity has now contracted for two consecutive months, albeit mildly. As noted in the January release, the sustained strength of the rand exchange rate probably explains much of the pressure on manufacturing.

The Monster Employment Index has shown strong, steady, upward growth throughout most of 2005, with a noteworthy growth trend over the past four months, ending in an expected seasonal dip in December. The past month's decline indicates the slowdown in online hiring registered in December of 2003 and 2004, as employers typically wrap up their seasonal hiring activity and await approval on 2006 budgets. Despite this anticipated seasonal slowdown, almost all industries, occupations, regions and states show much higher levels of online job availability than a year ago, demonstrating solid growth over the course of 2005. This certainly bodes well for job seekers as we enter 2006.

Demand remains incredibly robust. Housing activity in the rest of the country was very robust, and the destruction in the Gulf states just wasn't enough to move the needle downward.

Declines in the real estate activity will probably spill over into consumer confidence and eventually lead to slower spending.

David Haas

Deals like this allow both sides to focus on their core strengths, while having a more diversified presence through each other's products and offerings. I fully expect more activity in deals like this as we roll through the business cycle.

The Surgeon General says that if you can do physical activity at a moderate level three days a week, you will help prevent heart disease, control cholesterol levels and diabetes, slow bone loss associated with advancing age, lower the risk of certain cancers, and reduce anxiety and depression.

The surge in activity is a lagged response to the strength of new home sales, and with mortgage demand now well off its highs -- though still strong -- it probably can't last, ... But there is no reason to expect an immediate plunge, not least because permits rose again in February, for the fourth straight month.

The ... Tigers were not involved in any activity that breaches the ceasefire agreement.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity.

The sort of deceptive lull the past two months of the attacks was mainly because of the sustained effort on our part to stop terrorist activity and to prevent suicide and homicide bombings from coming out of the territories or out of Gaza. Had we not taken this campaign we would have had many suicide and homicide bombings like the one we experienced today in Haifa.

I've never been given a satisfactory explanation for why what was seen at the start as criminal activity was not prosecuted.

Samuel Johnson

Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.

So much of what you see in the United States now was built when hurricane activity was low and there was a category 5 storm once every 30 years, not every year or two, ... Your investment decisions need to be revisited.

Technically, the search committee's work is completed once the feedback on this week's activity has been provided to the president.

Tech is a great place to be at the moment. Merger and acquisition activity and good company earnings make it a sector you have to be in.

Pat Burns

It would be a great example of cooperation. It's a philanthropic activity that the community needs to get engaged with.

Richard Davidson

These changes in brain activity might be part of a pathway by which emotions affect asthma symptoms.

These results contain two very good pieces of news for the millions of Americans who have elevated blood pressure. Our previous research showed that making multiple lifestyle changes -- eating a healthier diet and increasing physical activity -- for a short-term period of six months led to significant reductions in blood pressure. Now we know that sustaining these lifestyle changes for the longer period of 18 months also leads to substantial blood pressure reductions. This is very good news because the longer people can keep their blood pressure down, the better it is for their heart health. The other good news is that this study shows that people can make and sustain these lifestyle changes over a fairly long time period.

The sharp slowing in domestic demand has dramatically reduced imports. Weakening economic activity in our major trading partners has significantly reduced the foreign demand for American-made products.

These data suggest that a bottoming in economic activity is taking place, but that a bit more inventory adjustment is needed to insure a re-acceleration in growth.

These data suggest that a bottoming in economic activity is taking place, but a bit more inventory adjustment is needed to insure a re-acceleration in growth,

These data add to the growing evidence that economic activity has slowed and that any re-acceleration is likely to be short-lived.

The stock markets have been doing reasonably well and there's been a big hike in merger activity over the past couple of years that created a huge amount of fee income. There's also been a move toward the higher fee earning elements.

The stock is really looking ahead to better times down the road. We're expecting of course a Fed rate cut and a resurgence in investment banking activity into next year.

These levels of activity have brought new players, mainly large independents.

The strength of high street activity during the month (November) reflects an abrupt turn in the weather driving demand for winter wear.

John Butler

The story on the activity side is that the recovery is a reflection of better domestic demand, but export orders are contracting at their fastest pace since May. This suggests the UK is still failing to benefit from good global growth.

The slowdown in manufacturing activity will be welcomed at the Federal Reserve, where any sign of economic slowing will be cheered.