Famous Quotes & Sayings

The challenge there is that we're looking for larger users, and there's been some leveling off of activity the number of clients looking to build large facilities. And rising fuel costs may have had an impact on that.

The finance minister is assuming an optimistic outlook for tax revenues, especially corporate taxes. He expects corporate tax collection to increase a hefty 28.4 percent, despite indications that industrial activity is rolling over. Perhaps he is betting on improving compliance.

The comparative weakness of the mortgage market in the first half of last year means that current indicators of activity, i.e. gross lending and approvals, are much stronger than they were 12 months earlier when the housing market was somewhat subdued, but they are by no means yet approaching the levels of activity seen in 2004.

The condition now is what we call organized chaos. There's a lot of activity but it's all associated with good preparedness.

The Committee is placing more weight on current data releases and, therefore, less weight on forecasts of economic activity and inflation. What I'm foreseeing is that the Fed is going to keep on tightening due to the economy being stronger in the first half of the year.

The idea is to make sure when they leave with a book, they can also leave with information on some other activity they may find interesting.

The Houston Endowment is smaller in scope than UT-Austin, but the activity is large, ... It is extremely important to the education scene, the arts scene and the medical scene in Greater Houston.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Peace is perfected activity.

The heightened activity level in the markets recently has created a tremendous increase in equity, fixed income and commodity-related volatility and trading.

Simon Newcomb

The great fire practically put an end to the activity of the Chicago Observatory and forced its director to pursue his work in other fields.

Ben Bernanke

The greatest single cause of the fiscal surplus of the 1990s was the stock market bubble, which led to an unsustainably high level of economic activity and tax revenues.

The implication, albeit a speculative one, is that those activity patterns in young adults are the foothold onto which Alzheimer's disease forms.

Steve Smith

The impetus for the structured activity program was really an effort to get all students moving in a structured way every day.

The impact of beauty in high school on future criminal activity suggests that girls in high school are more influenced by this phenomenon.

The immediate driver is that investment activity is picking up. The global economy remains very robust, and after a long and dreadful period, there are hopes that German consumption will strengthen.

The increase reflects more convention activity and shows Central Florida as a destination. Of course, we did get some conferences that were moved here because of the Gulf Coast not being able to handle them.

Pat Gillick

The important thing is to build his arm strength. We want to keep him on track. He's going through Spring Training, because he really didn't get a lot of activity in the spring.

The important aerospace industry is expanding again and overall manufacturing activity is growing, but the pace of growth in manufacturing is overstated in the durable goods report.

Wilhelm Ostwald

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

The indicators may be signaling a spurt of growth ahead, perhaps in the spring, which could be followed by a slower pace of activity later in 2006.

The idea of the Fed at least pausing is helping to support the market. We're looking at the economy as having continued fundamental strength going forward, and we're looking at generally good business activity numbers.

The difference in the second half was the activity that we rebounded the ball with. Everybody contributed defensively and led us to easy transition baskets.

The District of Columbia's statute threatens ... gun manufacturers with draconian penalties based on their lawful out-of-state commercial activity -- and on the criminal misconduct of third parties over whom the manufacturers have no control,

A lot of local governments have come to us and said we need to take a look at the activity at the general aviation airports.

And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: / The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

All this mergers and acquisitions activity is quite extraordinary.

The Chicago survey is very susceptible to changes in conditions in the auto industry, where activity has been very volatile in recent months.

The manufacturing surveys from September confirm that there has been no broad-based deterioration in activity due to the energy price spike in the aftermath of Katrina. This is quite promising for the growth outlook.

The magnitude of the surprise was bigger than most people were expecting, ... Earnings and revenue were driven by proprietary trading and M&A activity and its role as prime broker and clearinghouse for hedge funds.

The key message is housing market activity has improved significantly into the second half of this year and confirms the downside risks to growth from the housing market are vanishing.

The IRA's criminal activity will be hard to hide but easy to deny, ... may even intensify.

The IRA's criminal activity will be hard to hide but easy to deny,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.