Sentences with phrase «by insignificant things»

They may challenge their parents frequently and resist attempts to manage their behavior, appearing to be triggered by insignificant things or by nothing at all.

Not exact matches

It will end and when it does, the glory of the things that come next will make the trashiness of what happened with your husband be insignificant by comparison.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

Scipio turns his eyes back to the earth, and Africanus exhorts him to see how insignificant worldly glory is in comparison to the celestial realms, or even to the vast uninhabitable regions of the globe, or to the unimaginable immensity of the Great Year of the cosmic aeon, and then tells him to fix his mind always on heavenly things, to ignore earthly rewards and earthly censure alike, and to be guided only by virtue.

What the research I've described here makes clear, I hope, is that the trajectory that children's lives follow can sometimes be redirected by things that might at first seem, to the adults in their lives, to be small and insignificant.

One reader even stated: «I was especially comforted by the idea that it is common to fly off the handle for a seemingly insignificant thing.»

That's when it hit me (oh the enlightening moments which always happen either early in the morning or in the middle of the night): I'm so thankful and happy to be able to enjoy those small things in life... The most valuable and precious moments are made of those, «insignificant» moments which so often just slide by without us giving them the value that they deserve.

One of the strange things about the movie is that the bride - to - be, played by Molly Ringwald, is a relatively insignificant character in the movie.

Based on a poem by US author Ron Koertge, the film is dryly funny, as it explores the little and special moments of communication between a father and child and shows how seemingly insignificant things can actually carry great importance.

I guess maybe the writers were aware that most of the changes don't occur until well into the game, so they wanted to assure the player that they were in fact playing a different game by changing random, insignificant things early in the game.

I don't have facebook, and I use twitter by text — these things seem insignificant but it makes a big difference in terms of focus, not to have so many other people's opinions in my mind all the time.