Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

It is my firm belief that elimination of the exemption would inevitably and significantly reduce the level of professional arts activity in the state,

David Coleman

I think we're lacking news generally today. There hasn't been any fresh news for investors today. Equities have had a good run recently...(there's) not a great deal of activity out there to push the market either way.

I think we're going to see more of it, because we're seeing more independent third-party activity in political campaigns.

E. P. Thompson

I went over to investigate that there wasnt any illegal activity going on,

Julia Cameron

My mother set us to an activity and let us be.

Donald Young

It feels good to be playing a junior tournament again. It has been quite a while. I love the Easter Bowl, with all the age groups here, and both boys and girls, the atmosphere and activity here, as well as the tough matches, there's nothing like it.

I think people are very worried that this is going to stretch out, particularly if it's close. No one knows who is going to win, or when they will win, and there's still talk of terror activity around the election.

James Harrington

I think part of this clearly is to chill free-speech activity because it also resonates throughout the entire Hispanic community.

It doesn't give them the critical mass they need in Japan or any other Asian market. They want to have 25 percent of the Asian market. It's very strongly implied there will be more m&a activity in the market.

It does not surprise me that the new secretary would take a look at that situation. What does surprise me is that there would be further sanctions after the State Attorney's Office in Tallahassee said they were not convinced that criminal activity had occurred, but I am not privy to everything the new secretary knows.

Jim Craig

It doesn't make sense for us to pay a price that's inconsistent with our model and with our responsibility to our shareholders. We have not been able to agree a price and so we are moving on. There is a lot of activity in Europe at this moment and we are focusing on that.

It doesn't look like it's ending, even though it's relatively quiet right now. We would not be surprised to see more eruptive activity in the near future.

It does seem reasonable to expect that the presence of a brand new regional campus of a major research university along a major interstate highway will help to stimulate investment activity and growth and that those developments would have trickle-down impacts as well.

I strongly encourage the parents to report any kind of activity they see. I would especially ask them to take a look at what your children are doing on the Internet.

Lindsey Graham

I think it would be unfair for him to take a fall if this is just a limited activity of a few people.

It is critical that this activity be treated for what it is -- dealing in stolen property and profiting from it. And that must come with serious consequences.

I don't feel left out because of all the activity around me and I don't force myself to do something drastically new, musically speaking, to compete.

Mike Johanns

I am encouraged by the resumption of grain movement along the Mississippi River just one week after grain transportation was virtually halted by Hurricane Katrina, ... Clearly, there is much work to be done but I am confident that remaining obstacles will be overcome to resume all activity in a timely manner. We are assuring our international customers that we expect minimal disruptions.

Harrisonburg has a strong economy, possibly the strongest economy in the Valley. That's where this activity comes from.

Groundbreaking patents like these take a long time to be reviewed. This was also during the height of the bio-tech era, so there was a lot of activity to review.

Tony Stewart

It's very easy to get caught up in everything that's going on and just daily stuff being a distraction. When you have all that taken away from you, your daily activity becomes a lot more subtle, and you appreciate it all a lot more.

We are going to see an increase in our fire activity as we continue to see very little rain. Our drought index continues to increase and with low relative humidity and the daily shifting of winds any fire that does start will be a problem.

When you get a hankering to talk or complain about what you gave up for Lent, replace that hankering by speaking the word of God. For all the times you would have done the activity that you gave up for Lent, replace it by reading the word of God. Christians should always be drawing closer to God.

I was looking for a rebound in imports as some of the activity along the Gulf Coast came back to normal.

Growth is proceeding on a solid pace this year, and inflation is low and stable. Plausible rates of moderation in housing activity will not pose a problem for overall activity this year or next.

Given all the activity going on, all the construction occurring . . . having that kind of response time was not adequate.

From a development standpoint, the perceptions of the market are as important as the economics, and any activity to promote the industry is probably important to alleviate market concerns.

From an ethical and regulatory perspective, the U.K. leads the field. Where regulation is less clear- cut, there is greater scope for activity that goes beyond reasonable ethical boundaries.

From a very low base the German data has been performing very strongly, confidence is up and activity is up. The euro will continue to benefit.

For September, domestic funds are performing pretty much as usual. Based on our activity so far, we're looking at an in flow of $20 billion for equities.

Further, while we are hopeful that, in aggregate, we are seeing a bottoming in activity levels, there is no convincing evidence that our North American markets will rebound meaningfully before year-end. In addition, European, Asian and, to a lesser extent, South American markets are beginning to decline in lagged response to the North American weakness.

Futures are not for everyone, but with major stock indexes flat to down over the past five-year period, even buy-and-hold equity strategies have risks. With the recent activity in foreign exchange rates and commodities such as oil and metals, we anticipate even more investors will look at futures in the coming year.