Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

What we have to do is leave Lebanon, and what the world has to do is threaten the Syrians. If they are behind any violent activity against us, they will be treated as a pariah state.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Neil MacGregor

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life.

We are happy to participate in any activity that brings people downtown to see how vibrant it's becoming. We will be offering those on the tour a drink and let them tour the upstairs of Rosie's that is rumored to have been a bit of a brothel many moons ago.

Bill James

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.

Unlike many in the conservative camp, I accept theories of global warming, and accept that man-made activity has played a part in global warming. My differences have only been on what the solutions should be.

We're not expecting an entirely clean read for the durable goods report. The business confidence data began to bottom at the end of June and that's encouraging. We probably will see modest gains in consumer activity and eventually the business cycle will catch up to that. But so far, everything right now is pointing to frustrating moderate economic growth for the time being,

Judith Curry

We're not even at the peak of the current cycle we're only halfway up and already we're seeing activity in the North Atlantic that's 50 percent worse than what we saw during the last peak in 1950.

The only social activity in American households that suffers significantly as a result of Internet use is time spent watching television.

We are in wonderful shape and delighted with the response that people are giving in their support for this effort. It is going to be on the ballot--which is probably why you're seeing some of this activity taking place in the Legislature right now.

This would imply that construction activity may contribute less to overall economic growth this year, and simultaneously add fewer jobs compared to the 260,000 average over the past two years.

This would be an indication that activity is increasing at more than half the manufacturing firms in the survey, and another sign of growth.

John Gardner

The question is not what's happening in 1998, but what if any anticompetitive activity occurred in the past. The fact that competitive conditions have changed would not vitiate any alleged anticompetitive activity in the past.

Billy Brown

The project is excellent and on schedule. The activity of the area on Daniels and I-75 is very exciting.

Traders are just lightening their positions a little bit. The holidays are compressing the activity and I think most of the (options) rolling over you saw yesterday.

This sponsorship is an outgrowth of a very successful partnership in 2004. Tyson's message of power through protein resonates with our athletes and together we will educate as many Americans as possible about the importance of physical activity and sound nutrition. Our initiative will be designed to have a major impact on improving the health of today's youth through the solid foundation of basic conditioning.

Today's data is very weak, which adds to our concern about the prospects for consumer activity and the housing market in the months ahead.

Today's activity is pretty gloomy. The Nasdaq and S&P weakness does not look good for the marketplace.

Marlon Wayans

So, I was sitting there and I watched 'Paranormal Activity' and I was like, 'Boy, white people do dumb stuff in movies.' So I was like, 'Why don't they just leave the house... What if paranormal activity happened to a black couple?'

Origen

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

Tom Rath

We engineered activity out of our lives in the name of convenience. We created foods that put fried, fatty, sweet, and salty ahead of fresh, natural, and healthy. We quickly sacrifice sleep to work longer hours in pursuit of the American Dream. Even when we do these things with good intentions, they have life-threatening consequences.

Aaron Patzer

I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.

Deval Patrick

We are not finished, we don't believe, with these indictments. We're looking deeper into this particular Klan activity in South Carolina and we intend to get to the bottom of it.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

We are concerned by the high levels of obesity and low levels of physical activity among elementary-school children.

This school board administration will not stomach this kind of activity going on on our buses or schools. That person or persons involved in this incident this afternoon will face full criminal prosecution.

Was it a success or a failure? On one hand, it was a failure because it didn't shut down all economic activity in California. On the other hand, it is a success because nobody really felt like this was an unreasonable act of civil disobedience.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

There are three effects of attenuating private property rights that ultimately change individuals' perceptions in a drastic way. First, there is the loss of trust in the government to enforce the law, which dramatically affects foreign investors' views of the country. Second, the loss of property titles dramatically limits the amount of borrowing and entrepreneurial activity by disrupting the banking sector. Individuals no longer can offer banks their property as collateral for a loan. Third, there is the loss in the incentive to pass along entrepreneurial knowledge, and work initiatives are sharply stymied as well, since one's investment is not retained.

The rationale has always been that we don't wish to criminalize consensual sexual activity - which can range from kissing to sexual intercourse - among young people.

WAN optimization is still a relatively small market, but it's poised for tremendous growth because it balances the desire to consolidate data centers with the need to deliver applications to an ever more distributed workforce. There was a lot of activity in the WAN optimization market last year: acquisitions, new companies entering the market, and significant growth.

Wendell Willkie

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.