Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kit Bond

Economy activity remains strong and more Americans are going to work each day. In the last three years, nearly 5.3 million jobs have been created.

Each person has his own safe place-running, painting, swimming, fishing, weaving, gardening. The activity itself is less important than the act of drawing on your own resources.

The biggest thing is trying to create a critical mass of activity downtown, and when it's broken up with half a block of parking, that activity is really disturbed. It's what we call missing teeth. And you don't want those gaps to be very wide.

It's difficult to say if it's cyclical or defensive sectors driving the market. Whatever sector is seeing some M&A speculation or activity is the one that's going well at the moment.

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.

The report is stronger than appears on the surface. Unlike other parts of the economy, manufacturing activity moved up, so I would say in general this is a pretty solid report. Utility output was down probably because of the relatively cool summer we had.

There's a lot of activity that's going to be taking place over the next two to three years.

Jack London

There's a lot of activity going, and I think you'll find this kind of activity right now because of the political aspect of this.

There's a huge amount of activity that is controlled by hedge funds, and they're trying to find some performance after a bad last year.

There'll be a lot of short-term specials and apparent flurries of activity that will, on the surface, appear to bring prices down, but at the end of the year there will not have been a lot of progress.

This level of detail is essential in assisting investors make informed decisions on a residential real estate investment transaction. We are a network funded by activity on behalf of our members so it only makes sense, the more educated our members are and the more resources we provide them, the more money we will make for them. Simply put, we only make money if they do.

Jerry Brown

This lawsuit is part of a broader effort to realign economic and industrial activity with ecological constraints,

They really seem perfectly positioned for continued high M&A activity and what we think are going to be pretty good capital markets.

They're all generally telling the same story. Activity is still fairly strong but it's declining. They're going to be a drag on gross domestic product.

They're not getting a good crisp message of what sexual activity really is and what the benefits of waiting for sexual activity until marriage are.

There's been a sense of complacency in the market all week. It's very difficult to read too much into this week's activity given the condition we're in right now. The morning's unemployment number wasn't encouraging. It shows the economic recovery is not very strong.

There's been a lot of download activity from what's known as the early adopters,

There's been a lot of activity in restaurants and stores on fears there will be damage to their operations.

There's been a lot of activity as of late.

Paul Wolfowitz

If you had that kind of pandemic, I don't think there is any question it could happen, the costs both in human life and in disruption of world economic activity would be very high.

If you follow the proper procedures you don't have employees inside the silo doing work activity while product is being removed. We have to look at whether proper training was provided, and whether employees know what the hazards were associated with their work.

Kevin Hayes

If you get into single-digit vacancy rates, generally speaking, you see speculative development activity coming back. And it is coming back, but it's coming back slowly.

If you look at building plans passed, there is still positive growth for residential property development and a lot of this activity is the flats and townhouse market.

Bill Walsh

In those days, we couldn't communicate. How do you know you'll ever move? We were gridlocked, so I looked over there, in all seriousness, and I could see up over a hill, the activity and the lights, and I figured we'd have to walk over that hill about a mile to get to the stadium. The uncertainty of it was the crazy part.

In the whole post-war rebound story, the first part has come through -- we've clearly seen a bounce in consumer confidence. The next key step is business activity measures improving, including employment indicators. Hopefully we will see weekly jobless claims coming down soon -- in the next three-to-four weeks.

Bernard Arnault

In the coming five years, there'll be activity in the luxury world and we'll be there,

Instead of viewing tasks that require activity as a chore or a bother, we should view it as an opportunity.

Ian Mckellen

In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.

Jeffrey Williams

In my mind, this activity was a major success for safety. It's probably one of the top things.

In our view, if the state of emergency is short-lived, then it should not have a measurable impact on economic activity and thus preserve the gains from the fiscal reform effort, which is the cornerstone of the positive view toward the Philippines.

In our private banking division, declining securities revenues due to lower activity in the U.S.A. was the principal reason for lower profits.

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.