Sentences with phrase «closer than your friends»

Democrats beware of Trojan Rinos The Italian Prince of Darkness will keep his former enemies closer than his friends and not only take their contribution but will errantly take their Finklestinian failed advice — Andrew the Mechanic's quest for Gov is doomed not only by his arrogant incumbent taint that he so shamelessly tries to deny but more so by the trail of totally inept Clinton borne Freddy Mac & Fannie Mae 0 % down loan policies he embraced and promoted as HUD Secretary that propelled the country into the Great Recession we now endure as described by the Village Voice and other publications.

Some say you should keep your enemies closer than your friends.

Not exact matches

For example, reaching out to strangers on Twitter is more socially acceptable than it is on Facebook, since most people try to restrict their Facebook visibility to close friends and family.

It can be a spouse, a friend, a parent, but it has to be somebody that's far enough away from you that they're not in the super day - to - day — like it can't really be a coworker — but they have to be close enough to know you better than you know yourself.

It turns out kids who have just one really close friend fared better than those who had large but less intimate social networks.

I asked Dunbar what he made of social scientists» claims that people have fewer close friends today than they did years ago.

Morgan is a close friend of Trump's — Trump spent more time talking to Morgan on the phone after the election than he did with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

They skip telling their friends about their latest project or business because they think strangers will care more than the people closest to them.

«This is because people, other than very close friends and relatives, don't seem to relate well to those who constantly share photos of themselves,» lead study author David Houghton, of Birmingham Business School, said in a release.

Gallup surveys show that when people have positive interactions and close friends on the job, they will be significantly more engaged in their work (not to mention more productive and effective) than those who do not.

I was more responsive to comments on Instagram than to my own closest friends and family.

Whether you're in a close - knit office where everyone has been friends for years or you're shyer than the average Joe, these steps can help you create good friendships with your work mates.

Earlier in the day, Phelps's close friend, training partner and fellow U.S. co-captain Allison Schmitt had talked about how she had never seen a happier smile on Phelps than after his 200 - butterfly win on Tuesday night — but made clear that he was as intensely focused as ever.

Scardino stuck close to his friend Donald, who grew so frustrated from German shelling that he threw away his shovel rather than use it to dig foxholes.

Narr's study also found kids with broader friend groups tended to grow up with higher rates of social anxiety than kids with smaller numbers of closer friends.

One by one, executives, board members, investors and even close friends slowly fell away as Uber became embroiled in a seemingly ceaseless series of legal and ethical scandals, according to interviews with more than a dozen Uber insiders, former employees, investors and others, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Thus, the computer - generated scores can be more accurate than even the knowledge of very close friends and family members,» it adds.

I'll leave out commentary on the five Gawker - haters, other than to say that one of them is a good friend who has his reasons for not wanting to sit next to Nick at a closing dinner, although he's an evolved person, and gets why the deal played out as well as it did.

That said, a loan from family or friends offers more flexibility than a standard loan, since the close connection may mean they're willing to accept reduced or no interest and deferred payments until your business is generating revenue.

But I try not to be a snooty holier than thou Christian and I have a lot of close people surrounding me daily that I would call among my best friends that are non believers, Someday I hope I can help change their minds, but I'm not going to be pushy about it.

The video and song start off harmless enough, until the 1:19 mark when Duncan gets into a rap battle with a TSA agent and transforms into a potentially offensive hip - hop stereotype to unleash rhymes like On a mission from God; I like to call Him a Friend / I think that people are sick, and He's the med - o - cine, and this mind - expanding verse: Think I'm just a white man with a sheltered life / Nice home, two cars, two kids and a wife / Just look a little closer while you're starin» at me / «Cause sometimes what you get is more than what you see.

When a particular friend (whom I'm a bit closer to than the rest) isn't there, I've been calling her to see if everything is all right.

Finally, there is probably no point at which the spiritual life of persons — particularly young persons — is more affronted than by the fact that one's friends and closest associates either scoff at religion or are indifferent to it.

(You can also add in «substitute family» for friends you consider closer to you and more supportive than biological family.)

«There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother» (Prov.

That friend can be none other than God, because only God can be thus «closer to you than breathing, nearer than hands and feet.»

Far more worried about communism than racial inequality, the Kennedys forced King to break his ties with his closest white friend in the summer of 1963 as a condition for their continued lukewarm support of the movement.

He and his wife, I and my wife (before two illnesses reduced her to a helpless invalid) were close friends for more than fifty years.

I want my lifestyle to reflect a gospel of peace and love, and nowhere do I feel more energised doing this than when I am sitting on the back porch with a can of soda in hand, talking to a close Muslim friend.

yes, he is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

I assume that as with others, many of whom, like myself, had become close friends of the archbishop during the three brief years of his leadership, the call to honor his memory was stronger than the hovering sense of possible mass violence.

If you had any moral authority Sarah, you should have told them if my friends are not released than I am not released and closed your cell door behind you.

«Every word you have written and spoken has been pure light to me,» Waugh once told his friend, and it was Waugh who came closer than anyone to explaining the difficulty of assessing a fellow writer who did not «employ a single recognizable idiosyncratic style» or stick to a single genre.

But I had thought that having been in the role and having been in fairly intimate contact with (close friends) and counselled a fair number of pastors across many denominations I may have had at least one clue, if not a few more clues than that, about the varied position of pastor.

Proverbs 18:24: One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

But because the two of you are, close, you will disappoint your friend more than will someone at a distance.

He is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

A feeling deep inside pushed closer and closer to the surface, nagging me with thoughts of a more «normal» life: of community and day - to - day rhythms focused more on family and friends than on international travel and high - level diplomacy.

I made a few friends over there, but none closer than a boy about my age named Ken, who was positively giddy about the idea of freedom.

About 40 percent of people making more than $ 100,000 say none of their five closest friends make less than $ 50,000.

This must take into account the immediate fertilization, then subsequent failure of the egg where a woman doesn't even miss her regular period (no abortion going on there), as I've never seen any stats close to that, and from the friends and family that I have, miscarriages are rare — less than 10 %.

Adams has a dense, elliptical style that demands close attention (his friends no doubt caught his allusions more readily than we do, one hundred years later), and he writes of himself in the third person, which is a little distracting.

I have a close friend who has been in a committed gay relationship for more than 30 years... yet he is not entitled to marriage and all the legal and social protections that come with it.

About 30 percent of those making less than $ 50,000 say that all of their closest friends are at about the same income level.

He dwells within us in form of his Holy Spirit, which if we yield to, leads and guides us in what we do, a friend that sticks closer than a broth.er.

I first met Jinhua, one of my best friends in the world, at a tuition class more than 15 years ago, after which both of us became as close as sisters, and we now know each other's families as if they were (almost) our own.

It tastes good, but I was looking for a bread closer to white for another friend who is even pickier than me!

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and there is nothing better than spending loads of quality time with close family and friends... and of course EATING!

Dier and Alli are close friends off the pitch, but the latter may be wondering why he is valued lower than his bromantic pal.

Although Toral is often a part of the Arsenal pre-season tours and has made appearances, he is still yet to feature for the first team on a competitive basis and he'll be hoping to be a part of the Arsenal squad, alongside his close friend Hector Bellerin, rather than be shipped out on loan again.