Sentences with phrase «foolish things»

For the kids, it's not to do foolish things out of sheer rebellion, because your parents are out to help you and keep you from harm's way.

It's easy to critique what's being written here, people are writing very foolish things.

Don't keep trying it on your own, yelling at your dog, or buying an electric collar, or any other such foolish thing.

I just believe it is too easy to hide behind anonymity and say anything foolish thing that comes to mind when you don't have to worry about what anyone might think of you.

It causes some people who don't know how the phrase arose to say rather foolish things.

I do not spend money on foolish things where you know you need to spend it on something you really need....

But we shouldn't be surprised when smart people do foolish things.

Didn't God choose the «foolish things of this world to confound the wise?»

Men do foolish things for money, and no movie demonstrates that as hilariously and tragically as «Fargo.»

The most foolish thing believers could do is to make concessions now to a modernity that is already bankrupt (and that despises them anyway) and thus to make themselves subject to a second attack» the attack of the postmodern on the modern.

Granted, Congress does many foolish things, but it has never, ever voted to put EPA in charge of making climate policy.

Still, Financial Products is considerably smaller than it was before the crisis, they aren't doing the same foolish things in securities lending that they were prior to the crisis, and they don't have much short - term debt at all.

S.Lewis» «I am here trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: «I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God.»

Accepting the most extraordinary claims imaginable based on nothing more than a collection of this mythology that was cobbled together during the Dark Ages is a pretty foolish thing to do.

You might recall his regrettable taste in romantic companions (a Hells Angels associate), his habit of leaving sensitive documents in random locations (said associate's home) and his talent for saying foolish things (such as calling for the ouster of an Afghan governor).

The old ways of our history are often foolish things when we strip them down.

Worse yet, the Bible states it is with foolish things that man blinds the proud.

There are just as many baptist and catholic zealots in the democratic party who also believe amazingly foolish things.

«All of us do foolish things sometime, but I'm not a fool,» Mayweather said.

True, she is playing an aviation engineer, which are usually not dummies, but this angle seems far more of a contrivance than a reality, as she does some very foolish things throughout, especially as key pieces to the puzzle that seem obvious to us are repeatedly overlooked for purposes of dramatic convenience.

People start spending more than they would have otherwise spent just to hit the signup bonus — a monumentally foolish thing to do.

Gaming - Configured PCs: As far as buying a computer primarily to play video games, some might say this is an economically foolish thing to do.

«Abusing a security technology like [two - factor authentication] by turning it into a marketing opportunity is pretty much the most short - term clever, long - term foolish thing Facebook could do.»

He later sent out another tweet in which he added that Konami canceling Silent Hills after P.T. is one of the most foolish things he has ever witnessed.

One thinks that, had he been forced to take such a course in high school, Daniel Dennett» the crusader for biology as the final destroyer of religion» might not say so many foolish things.

Old - style aid is now discredited, and I think rightly so, for certainly there are few more foolish things than for a rich nation to salve its conscience by transferring cash to the government of a poor one, thus as a rule keeping an inefficient and unpopular tyranny in power.

Mr Joyce said the reported comment would be a very foolish thing for any person to say, considering the hurt so many Australian dairy farmers were feeling.

«I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God.

«Hanging a sign above our door saying «for the next four years, Britain is closed for business» would be a very, very foolish thing to do.»

I'd see the tendency you're observing as a spectacular demonstration of the fact that no matter how much (or how little) Greek you know, «More wouldn't be helpful» is a pretty foolish thing to say, and those who know more than you do can prove it to you.

God loves you no matter what even when you say foolish things like this.

«A Roth conversion might be a foolish thing to do if you plan on leaving the high - taxed state of your working years to retire in a state that levies no income taxes.»

But a Roth conversion might be a foolish thing to do if you plan on leaving the high - taxed state of your working years to retire in a state that levies no income taxes.

The late stage of a half market cycle can encourage investors to do foolish things.

«I always tell them [my family] that the second most foolish thing they could do right now is to possess an volume of bitcoins they can't means to remove and the most foolish thing they could do would be to not possess any.

Careful and rigorous analysis helps investors resist the temptation to do foolish things.

I have a fondness for Occam's razor, and one should not look for additional explanations for the foolish things people write when ignorance suffices.

Don't worry God uses the foolish things to confound the so called wise.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; — 1 Corinthians 1:27, NKJV