Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Thompson

Recreational fishing is a long-standing, valid activity in the park, and we recognize that. But the park has a dual mission, to protect resources and provide for their enjoyment. If you don't protect the resources, it'll prevent the enjoyment.

Steve Pearce

Regardless of the true source of these incursions, the Mexican government must not evade its responsibility to help us stop illegal activity on the border. I hope that this letter will lead to a more productive partnership toward that goal.

Antoine Halff

Refinery activity has been very depressed because of damage caused by hurricanes last year and deferred maintenance. There was a huge surge in imports after last year's storms but that has ended. At the same time refinery activity has not recovered.

Amy Cutts

Refinancing activity was very strong in the fourth quarter, even with higher interest rates. The large share of borrowers who took cash out when refinancing their mortgages combined with the strong overall refinance volume led to an extraction of home equity through prime first-lien refinances of $70.3 billion, slightly higher than the revised estimate of $67.2 billion extracted in the third quarter. We expect the share of all refinance borrowers who take out cash to remain high in 2006 because of the relatively high cost of second mortgages and home-equity lines of credit.

Bob Walters

Refinance activity will continue as homeowners refinance out of adjustable rate mortgages and into fixed-rate programs now that there is virtually no difference between long- and short-term interest rates.

Alan Greenspan

reductions in demand for our exports and intensified competition from imports. All of this suggests that the growth of economic activity in this country will moderate from the recent brisk pace.

Tom Murphy

reiterate to all our principals that this type of activity is never appropriate and should never occur in our schools.

Abraham Maslow

Religion becomes. a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

Karen Thomas

Our position has always been that the focus should be on suspicious activities. Rely on the banks to use their knowledge and expertise when they see something suspicious to report it and file a suspicious activity report.

Melanie Balcomb

Rebounding was a huge concern. We worked hard on checking them out and not being able to hurt us on the offensive boards.

Paolo Bonaiuti

Such a tiny difference necessitates a scrupulous checking of the counting.

Gary Orfield

Statistics greatly underestimate dropout rates because they rely on school principals who weren't checking on them. When students disappeared, the principals just wrote them as transfers.

Ken Hitchcock

I thought we were a little lethargic during the first two periods with all the travel we've done. Our timing was better and our checking a lot better in the third period. We did a better job of getting ourselves into a scoring position later in the game.

Tim Shaw

I think every week is a different challenge. It's fun checking out a new team. If we can handle this, we can handle the next step. We know we're not a great team right now, but we want to be, and we know this is one of the steps we have to take.

Mary Freeman

I think ACS should have been checking on her. The system could have did better. A child going back to an ex-drug addict, they should have been checking more, at least once a year, if nothing else.

Folarin Campbell

I was the one checking him, and they had made shots in my face the whole game. On that last shot, I wasn't sure if he was going to try to go to the hole or pull it back for the 3. When he pulled up for that jumper, I put a hand in his face and was just hoping and praying it was going off.

Folarin Campbell

I was the one checking him, and they had hit shots in my face the whole game. When he pulled up for the jumper, I put a hand in his face. I was hoping and praying it wouldn't go in.

Hal Stratton

It doesn't hurt for a parent to show up on Open House, the first day of school, like I will be doing this year and checking those kinds of things out,

Linda Miller

Recently we've de-emphasized the large multinational drug companies because of the headwinds they've faced because of patent expirations and no big product approvals,

Gilbert Lopez

Our recommendation would be to go for companies that are seen benefiting most from the likely end-result of all these developments -- lower interest rates and improving consumption.

Rob Morris

Our rapid SOA development tools are specifically designed to enable mainframe developers to deliver more than just Web services from the mainframe. With Ivory, companies can quickly and easily incorporate the full value of their mainframe resources in their SOA.

Tim Bajarin

PC companies do not want to have more than six weeks of inventory, and most of them try to live within three- and four-week turns, ... We're hearing about inventory build-ups in some companies that are as much as 13 weeks.

Tetsuhiko Yasuda

Our No. 1 competition is not other companies but counterfeiters. We want to work with governments to stop this.

Adrian Gonzalez

Order-to-delivery times are shrinking and companies are heavily outsourced, which means reliability and consistency of performance are more critical than ever. Companies are striving to meet service levels at the lowest possible cost and are turning to carrier- and vendor-performance metrics to do that.

David Rudow

Oracle's success hinges on retaining its customer base, including ones it inherited from the companies it bought.

Mike Viracola

People have been looking for companies to say we've weathered the storm -- no pun intended -- whether it's the hurricane stuff or the macro things,

Margo Timmins

Success is a very difficult thing in a society where we dispose of what we like very quickly, before you even learn to play your instrument, ... So far, the record companies we have worked with have respect for us as musicians. I want to sell records and I need a record company to do that, but I don't want to sell myself.

Christina Guerland

Rebecca stepped into a really difficult situation, and she did a phenomenal job. They really struggled with her.

Marlon Defillo

Our police officers are working under some very trying times. So it's a difficult time, but it doesn't excuse what our jobs are supposed to be.

Patrick Norman

Our music is something you have to hear. It's always difficult to describe. It's with our own slant, but it's rock 'n' roll nonetheless.

Lawrence Yun

People have been saying that for 20 years. But in San Francisco, it's very difficult to build, so there's a supply constraint. Seattle is also encountering a supply-constraint situation.

Lee Hunter

People later sent me hours of video and newspaper clippings of it, but I haven't look at them since. It was such a difficult weekend.

Lewis Altfest

People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult time saving because they have the most overhead expenses.

Pavan Duggal

Such rules have proved to be ineffective and enjoy little support on the ground. It is also very difficult to implement them.

Mike Halpert

Spring is oftentimes very difficult to forecast. Tomorrow it might snow and a weekend ago, it was 85.

Valentino Rossi

Starting from the third row will make life difficult tomorrow as it will be hard to overtake,

Pat Roberts

Part of that was redacted to protect the Saudis, ... there was obvious Saudi involvement.

Colin Doyle

People have a right to think we're probably not as cohesive as we should be because it's showing in our play. I don't think anyone's doing anything intentionally, but obviously something's not working and something's not right.

Boris Yeltsin

Our calls, continual proposal (on a peaceful solution to Kosovo) obviously are not getting through

Sasha Jackson

Most of the roles that I go for are Americans, so the first thing I had to do was pin down the American accent - which is obviously in 'Blue Crush 2.'

Maria Sharapova

I think they obviously wanted a better match. After the first set, it didn't look like it was going to be much of a match.

Jamie Johnson

I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded.

Adam Treu

I think there are obviously differences,'' Turner said.

Kraft Foods

Kraft is the most obvious spin, because its price is known,

Mike Williams

That was a surprise to us and we are obviously going to rebuild.

Kristy Sobel

I went online because I wanted to see if there was something I could use if I was going out.

Susannah Fox

There aren't any new recruits. It's online veterans who are signing up for a second or third tour.

Jeffrey Grau

Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to grow,

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Mark Logan

Scott's been out there from the get-go on how to make the online space profitable.

Gina Bellman

I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.

Nev Schulman

The idea of finding your soul mate, whether it's online or not, is what people want.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Cui Yugui

If they insist, we will keep their profile confidential.

Deng Xiaoping

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Donald Trump

Like the whole concept of profiling, you know, I mentioned the other day profiling, everyone goes, profile and profiling. Well, profiling is you know, in Israel they're doing it and they're doing it well.

Earl Butz

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

Howie Carr

The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.

Clint Zandt

A profile is an investigative tool. It is not science, it is not DNA, it is not latent fingerprints. ... It is just one more tool investigators have. But a profile does not tell you who did the crime.

Jim Turner

It raises our profile all around the state.

Paul Allen

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

Margot Robbie

I make my friends pull up their profiles and I'm like, "Show me everything."

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Willa Holland

I like long floaty clothes that don't restrict me, and I live in flat boots.

Ludwig von Mises

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

Eric Brown

We're not trying to say these things aren't available. We didn't want to restrict the player.

Jeff Hawkins

At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.

Dan Kimble

There's nothing we can do to restrict them.

Karen Parker

The boaters didn't like being restricted when they didn't have to be. The homeowners wanted stricter regulations.

Val Kilmer

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.