Cat hates calling them «inmates» or «prisoners» or «convicts» or any other label that emphasizes the worst things they've done in their lives and wants them to see possibility in their futures.
When we talk about grace in the Church, we most often define it in terms of the bad things we've done that don't matter anymore in God's eyes.
I believe that God is just, but I also have a big problem with every bad thing I've every done (and I've done quite a few things I'm not proud of) being revealed to all my friends, family and the rest of humanity.
All the presidents that have been in office and most politicians period claim to christian or faithful god believers, and just look at all
the bad things they have done.
I also believe in it because despite the attempts many, no one has ever proven the Bible to be false And you say that, «religion and dogma can make good people do bad things,» what
bad thing have I done?
I will say some of the bad things we've done over the past 3 games appear, to the eye test, to be bad things we've done with some regularity throughout the season, even during our 15 game win streak.
The advice you've gotten over the last decades from modern medicine — to stay out of the sun and if you must go out, then slather yourself with sunblockers — is among the worst things they've done to us.
+ + + + + Last week I bought these Organic Toasted Coconut Clusters at Costco and it was the best / worst thing I've done in a very long time.
Not exact matches
, Brian Tracy quotes Mark Twain saying, «If you eat a frog for breakfast, chances are that will be the
worst thing you
have to
do all day.»
You forget they are prisoners and realize they are men who
have done bad things and made mistakes -; many of them as teens.
The bottom line is that if you
did not
have competition, that
would be a
BAD thing.
He said: «I
would suggest turning off the television because that's probably the single
worst thing you can
do for consumption.
Watch the crash and you might think he didn't hit that hard, but that's the
thing about concussions — the impact doesn't
have to look
bad to be serious.
«Tech founders tend to assume that everybody in the past
has done things badly.
So Biderman, — the self - described «King of Infidelity» — who just last year told PROFIT 500 researchers that «there's no such
thing as
bad attention for our business» —
did something that
would be unthinkable to most entrepreneurs: He fired himself.
«The
worst thing you can
do is
have new hires show up when their immediate supervisor isn't there for three or four days,» Sullivan says.
As Agnieszka notes, although
having a high valuation doesn't sound like the
worst thing for a startup (it is a bit of an ego boost after - all), it could seriously harm a company.
Whether the employee simply
has a knack for always saying the
worst possible
thing or the behavior puts your business at risk for a sexual harassment claim, it's important to
do something about the employee as soon as possible.
What's more, there was a contagion effect — not only
did those divulging find themselves leaving discussions
worse off, but their partners were also adversely effected,» says Quartz of studies focused on adolescent girls (though apparently the same
thing has been observed in other contexts, too).
«One of the
things I am
doing is not just lobbying the British government but lobbying businesses to press upon their governments the fact that a hard Brexit
would be
bad for London and for Europe too,» Khan said.
Causing such an outcome
would, in most circumstances, be a
bad thing to
do.
«As long as there
have been computers around, people
have been
doing bad things with them,» he says.
Not only
did he score just 11 points, including none in the fourth quarter, but
things got
worse after the game when he
had a confrontation with a fan and took a shot at a Cleveland radio host for only asking questions after the Cavs lose.
«The one
thing I don't want to
have happen is ending up in a position where I haven't heard the
bad news.»
You just
have to stick in there, keep getting out, keep meeting other actors, keep meeting people... the very
worst thing you can
do is stay home and hide away because that's a self - defeating spiral you might never pull out of.
Even
worse, we tend to worry and obsess over the
things we haven't
done, even though we «should» — when the truth is that when we smartly decide what's right for ourselves and our customers, we end up being way further on top that we expected.
According to everything I
've ever read on the subject, it's just about the
worst thing you can
do for your productivity — and I was starting to feel like those articles were right.
«We
have a vacation email tool, because the
worst thing that people
do is to go on vacation and try to stay busy, connected to work,» Huffington said.
Frankly, if you respect this colleague and think she could
do a good job as a manager,
would it be such a
bad thing if she
did formally become his deputy?
Projects and deals can fall through, you can
have a
bad quarter of business, and you can
have a few
bad weeks with your diet but it's still a temporary
thing because you don't
have to accept it as a permanent reality.
And the
worst thing we can
do as a company is to
have six initiatives, all of them half - invested, all of them going nowhere.
When the crowd
had finished he made sure to warn them that «
bad things would happen» if they don't live up to their promise.
«
Having seated privacy is not a
bad thing, but there are ways that you can
do that without being boxed in from every side,» she says.
And when the revised version of the bonus lottery comes out — the airline tried to get rid of the employees» regular bonus in favor of a lottery in which only a few
would win —
do you imagine
things will be better or
worse?
Indulging in a gooey mac n» cheese may once
have made you feel
bad about the terrible
things you thought you were
doing to your cholesterol levels, but thanks to new research published in the journal Nature Medicine, you can now enjoy without guilt.
«There's an emotional
thing when you get a pretty ominous - looking letter from the IRS, [saying] you might
have done bad things,» Tom Reese, owner of a hearing - aid retailer in Tennessee, told the Journal.
As our big launch dates neared and we geared up to announce the next great
thing (like Apple just
did with the iPhone X), saying «Sorry,
had a
bad week, you'll
have to delay the iPhone announcement,» just isn't an option.
A lot of the people in academia were like «No, you
have to finish, there's all these
bad things that happen if you don't finish.»
Now that worry about the Series A crunch
has been partly eclipsed by handwringing over an alleged Series B crunch, research firm CB Insights decided to
do some math and see how
bad things really are.
«The
worst thing we
did in the 70's was give women the idea they can
have careers and babies at the same time.»
Nothing I
did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a
bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the
thing about
having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I
'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.
As long as
things don't get
worse, our economy shouldn't get dragged down by Europe any more than it already
has.
I hate to be the bearer of
bad news, but the majority of the time, those
things have more to
do with you and the habits you choose to put into place — not what your employer promises.
Arguably one of the
worst things Goodell
has done is take even small touchdown celebrations out of the mix.
There was a period of time where I didn't
have control over
things, and I felt
bad about the
things that were happening.
The
worst thing you can
do at this point is to give the discount, because then you
've told the prospect you can't be trusted to offer the best deal.
We certainly get a mental boost from seeing them, but that can be a
bad thing: Research
has shown these motivational pick - me - ups can trigger the same kind of psychological reward as
doing the work itself, treating us with endorphins we don't deserve and actually reducing our capacity to
do real work.
Sometimes when you
have a
bad day the best
thing to
do is just cut your losses, go home, get a good night's rest, and wake up with a renewed outlook.
In the current situation, he said, the best central bankers can
do is say that
things would have been even
worse had they not acted after the crisis.
One of the
worst things I
've ever
done for an employee was not listen to a reference who was all but screaming: «Don't hire her!»