Sentences with phrase «about great endings»

Thomas's connection to the ocean seems to come to a head at the end of the novel, at once bringing about great endings and new beginnings.

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It's the great intangible, that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for a business owner: How do you get your employees to care about their work as much as you do?

If you end up among the many who decide to begin a job search in 2018 in pursuit of your next big thing, here are two important but simple things you should make sure you do that will not only significantly increase your chances of finding a great new job but will also help you land one that you can feel good about long after the «new company halo effect» has worn off.

Clark says: «Everyone, sooner or later, is going to hear about how you've treated your employees,» and suggests that if a work relationship is ended caringly, former employees can be great assets to a company.

«About a year ago there was the belief that the iPhone X could create a super upgrade cycle and now it appears that the iPhone X is a great high end product but priced too high at $ 999 with memory configurations over $ 1,000 is aimed for the high end market and Apple is positioning its product in various price tiers with high, mid and lower end prices.»

«One of the great things about eating less food prepared by others is that you'll end up eating healthier.

The great thing about YC is its ongoing support even after the three month program ends.

The end of the year is a great time to reflect on the company's performance, talk about challenges and accomplishments and plan for the year ahead.

There's a stretch of ocean off California's coastline that's different from the rest.It starts around Bodega Bay; extends south to about 50 miles west of San Francisco; and ends in the Big Sur region.This area is infamous for shark attacks, but not just any shark: an estimated 38 % of all great white shark attacks in the US happen here.

From Royal Baby news to Gossip Girl — style soaps to tabloid magazine pieces about the Hiltons, we love stories of heirs and heiresses and great dynastic families — particularly if those families meet a nasty end.

«Having a great workout translates into every area of your life, making you feel more accomplished at the end of the day about everything that you do,» says Robinson.

According to human resources consulting group Aon Hewitt, about 24 % of 401 (k) accountholders had outstanding loans against their bank balances at the end of 2016 — not a great sign for their future retirement security.

The gross domestic product grew by about 2.5 percent, which was slightly better than the nation has seen since the end of the Great Recession, and the number of jobs grew by about 200,000 a month.

The gross domestic product grew by about 2.5 percent, which was slightly better than the nation has seen since the end of the Great...

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I quite often treat this blog like a diary, so sometimes I'll stray away from talking about my personal finance and share my current thoughts, I'll be excited to go back and read some old post when the years go by, and it will help me reflect on the overall journey that has been experienced, because as great as the end goal of early retirement is, I would imagine the character developed through such a process has more then just monetary value.

I've already started thinking about end - of - year blog post ideas (want to get a jump on it before everyone else) and this is a great way to begin that trend.

And to date, little about the past few years of hyper - appreciation in real estate prices — greater than that of Bubble 1.0 — has little to do with fundamental, end - user, shelter - buyer demand for houses «in which to live».

«And there is nothing greater your life can be about than contributing whatever you can to the revolutionary transformation of society and the world, to put an end to all systems and relations of oppression and exploitation and all the unnecessary suffering and destruction that goes along with them.»

At that day the almighty god will ask us all about what we have done in this life and our end will be either in the burning fire or in the great and beautiful paradise.

We should end this foolish talk about religion and move on to greater debates.

I have been asked many times during debates about warfare whether I would use violence to defend myself and could never answer with any certainty that I would, but I knew without a shadow of a doubt that if he made any attempt to harm my son he would find himself on the receiving end of the Greater Clawed Maltese Falcon.

It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.

This particular YMCA included, «a great mix of high - end yuppie fitness facility, a wonderful community resource for families, and an old - school residence for disenfranchised men,» so Fey shares a host of funny stories about working the front desk.

Perhaps a sermon should be regarded as great, not because everyone in the congregation agrees with the preacher, but because at the end of the service those present just can't wait to talk about it; to debate it together, because the text around which it was built has captured their imagination and curiosity.

But if we let our heritage slip from our hands, if we do not understand what we are, then Lincoln's great words about us, words we find it hard to understand in these closing years of the twentieth century — that we are «the last best hope of earth» — will in the end be nothing but a mockery, a sarcastic epithet for a fallen republic.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

Unmoved by the prospect of the end of democracy, and skeptical about the existence of a moral law, they might say that the system still «works» to the satisfaction of the great majority and, niceties about moral legitimacy aside, we will muddle through so long as that continues to be the case.

Its great that you have come up with the idea i hadnt really thought about it before until you proposed the possibility i was just followed the path you were taking and ended up at the same conclusion.So thanks for opening up the possibilitys to us.

The quest for «the historically verifiable Jesus» ends up with nothing more than an estimate about greater and lesser probabilities, and what is historically verifiable «is not at all necessarily what is most central or pivotal to Jesus» ministry, any more than we can deduce from what is unique to a person what is essential to that person.»

You make a great point there at the end about truth being able to come from other sources.

You make a great point there at the end about who deserves our money.

Sherlock fans had spent the hiatus theorizing about how the Great Detective had faked his season - ending death.

This kind of watered down Judaism has put us on the edge of an Iran with a bomb, Obama in office and an Israel at risk.Religion is not about compromise that is a bumper sticker far too many have bought into.When the next great history of the Jewish people is written, they will write we did it to ourselves - trying to be oh so tolerant we put ourselves in a state where we ended up being unrecognizable to those who paid so much for us to lamely claim to be Jews in a primarily anti-semitic world pushing us to compromise.

Mammon now rules your world, and last time I checked servitude to mammon doesn't end well... you could ask the great roman empire about how that ends.

And we wonder why the rest of the civilized world is collectively kicking our math and science challenged rear ends while barbarians like Rubio talks about «one of the earths great mysteries».

With the as * anine behavior and ridiculous fighting so carelessly about who's god is greater, We need to put religion in it's place, not end it as every individual has the right to choice, but concentrate on preserving our precious planet and all it's grandeur.

The Indian economist Amartya Sen notes, moreover, that the growth in per capita income has been about one - third greater in countries at the bottom of the economic heap than those at the high end, and that the figures would be even higher if sub-Saharan Africa were excluded.

I'll end with a great taste in my mouth and absolutely no regrets about what could have been.

Guarnaschelli believes people in the food and beverage industry still have a great deal to learn about the fight to end hunger and the New York City Wine and Food Festival helps take a step in that direction.

Even now I still spend a lot of time thinking about what to snack on and it usually ends up involving rice crackers with some form of spread — guacamole, almond butter, sun dried tomato type creations etc... I love all these snacks, they're great, but sometimes I think I can do better than rice crackers!

What I like about making this condiment by hand is that if you do, by accident, end up adding too much oil at first, all you have to do is whisk even faster, and there is a great potential for saving it.

I found a great resource in Ellen's Kitchen for estimating quantities for large gatherings, although it doesn't say much for my math skills when my estimates, in most cases, ended up being about twice what they should have been!

The end result is a great tasting pumpkin spelt waffle that you can feel good about serving your family.

I had thought about a lot of other cheeses, and ended up finding this great resource along the way if you ever need to learn about cheese.

Oooh a great anecdote; school reunions... the thing I loved about the end of school was never having to see the certain people I didn't like, ever again...

What's great about chili is that you can customize it with whatever ingredients you have in your pantry and use up leftover odds and ends in the fridge.

In the end taste is too important for me to compromise, the great thing about the Low GI raw cane sugar for me is that I don't get Hypoglycemic symptoms when I use it at all compared to regular Raw Cane Sugar.

They didn't rise as high as I wanted (we were in a hurry and I had to end the rising time about 5 or 10 minutes early), but they were still great... springy like real bread and super yummy!