Sentences with phrase «friends than around»

There is no better way to spend an evening with friends than around a roaring outdoor fireplace, with a few drinks and some stunning outdoor lighting to light up the backyard.

Not exact matches

«And when I look at my friends who are running other good companies, the single biggest difference that I see in whether the companies end up becoming really great and reaching their potential or just pretty good is whether they're comfortable and really self - confident enough to have people who are stronger than them around them,» Zuckerberg said.

This worked well with people I knew already — friends were game for a 45 - minute walk - and - talk rather than spending $ 5 to sit around at a coffee shop.

A friend has told them your product is worth trying out, and that will encourage them to stick around and try it out longer than your average new user.

To recenter people's feeds around their friends and family members, Facebook announced that it would make Pages» organic reach more dependent on people sharing their posts than a Page post directly appearing in someone's feed.

Friend of Brian's I'm sorry to burst your bubble here, but every major heresy that has inflicted God's people for the last 2,000 years has come from organized groups with «leaders» who thought they knew God's mind better than anyone around them.

I am becoming more and more convinced that if we look around at our friends and acquaintances, and none of them have any serious problems (more serious than what is shared in the typical church prayer meeting), we probably have not followed Jesus very far down the path of discipleship.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

My Facebook feed is constantly filled with links to the daily outrages — political, social, and religious — that preoccupy my friends, so it's not as if I need a ninety minute expose on Internet pornography to make me feel like the world around me is a darker, uglier place than the one I grew up in.

Also, who wouldn't want to spend their last days on Earth with their families and friends, in the company of loved ones, rather than traveling around the country trying to convince people they are right so they feel better about themselves.

For me, they are: loving those around me, becoming more myself, listening more to God than any other voice, being a friend, not jumping to conclusions, becoming less of a critical, negative or judgemental person, and always being a learner.

As the fall approaches there is perhaps nothing more quintessentially Southern than a delicious spread of food lining tables under tents with families and friends gathered around.

Myself and my local friend have popped our heads around the door since I wrote this blogpost, but haven't eaten there or bought the products since... I have found I can bake quite decent GF loaf myself (which I will post about soon) for less than # 6 -LRB-!)

Valentines day is right around the corner and if you have little ones in school, I'm sure they want nothing more than the best box of «frozen» valentines to give to their friends.

When the holidays come around there's nothing better than making homemade candy recipes with your family and friends!

While I'd love to be the kind of person who can put together a magazine shoot - worthy picnic set atop a chic table in a bag, more often than not, my picnics consist of several friends huddling around a cooler, passing around Pyrex containers of food.

Other than that, it's whoever comes around - friends, neighbours, family, my dog They all work well as taste - testers and they're free!

I had no specific occasion for baking these cupcakes (rather than making a few friends at school very happy), but I've seen similar cupcakes around the blogosphere and knew they'd be a great Sunday afternoon recipe to tackle.

Founded by then 17 - year - old Fred DeLuca and family friend Dr. Peter Buck more than 52 years ago, Subway is still a family - owned business, working with more than 21,000 dedicated franchisees in communities around the world.

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!

What's better than sitting around with your family and friends, enjoying some great food and football on Thanksgiving?

I look around at some of those friends of mine now and I can not believe that they are not better than me, even with daddy's money, thanks to hard work, talent and ambition.

Yet it's that silent killer question that I've been asked several times now when I sit around with other football - loving friends, and for a second we think about something other than United's woes this season.

My husband, Steve, had a family friend who was due around the same time I was, putting us in the awkward spot of being constantly compared to each other in every way, shape, and form (especially shape and form - this woman had gained only twenty pounds during her entire pregnancy and had taught aerobics up until her due date; I had packed on more than thirty - five pounds and sat on my couch writing and napping for most of the nine months).

And I spend a lot of time on various parenting websites connecting with moms there, too, many of whom I feel more free to be «myself» around than my local mommy friends.

Like, don't go around saying «oh, my child will NEVER watch more than 10 minutes of TV a day» because I guarantee you, the first time you actually want to do something normal like blow dry your hair, paint your nails or use the bathroom without an audience, the TV becomes your best friend.

Sometimes you will find that you have a friend who appears to be more accomplished than you in the kitchen or knowledgeable, or it might be the other way around.

This is a new friend with a baby of her own who can relate to stories of poo and piles and totally gets why you're jumping around like a loony because your baby just cracked that first smile or slept more than four hours straight.

My husband and I realized fairly soon after adopting our first son that we needed to parent differently than a lot of friends and acquaintances around us.

First, couples baby showers tend to be oriented more around family and friends, talking and catching up than around playing games and indulging in the silly traditions that women tend to do at showers.

I want to continue to recalibrate traditional gifting by either doing nothing (sometimes nothing can be a gift), focusing on giving one lovingly procured gift per person (rather than scurrying around trying to fulfill some sort of quota), giving small handmade treats (e.g., to neighbors and friends), and continuing my charitable giving efforts (for ideas, see these wonderful back posts by Isabel Kallman and Jennifer James).

Rather than creep around the house after her son's 7:30 p.m. bedtime, Schanzer is free to have friends over for takeout.

For all of those tired days when you have to run a few errands or want to look like there is still some life left in you around visiting friends — Taking less than 30 seconds to apply, BB creams can make all the difference by adding a little color to brighten up that sleepy smile!

rather than saying things like, «I don't want to see you moping around just because your friend can't play!»

«She was quite a gal, quite a lady,» said her husband of more than 45 years, James J. «She had many friends, not only locally but around the state and the country.

TechPresident reports that the Obama campaign tested their new «Dashboard» system to let volunteers from around the country make calls into Wisconsin, the AFL - CIO has trialed software that matches voter lists with volunteers» Facebook friends to let them call targets that they actually know rather than total strangers, and the Walker campaign combined VoIP with digital voter files to automate the connection between identification calls and data entry.

Yes, some viral party invitations and such have spread around the world after being sent to only three friends, but a conflagration is much more likely to start from a bunch of little fires than from a single spark.

The city has no better friend than Old Man Winter in driving off the Times Square desnudas that are parading around with their shirts off, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said...

Then there is a broader issue and that is around how young activists could possibly be led to believe that campaigning as a young Conservative is anything more than having fun with friends.

Depp's friends closed ranks around him - Doug Stanhope penning a blogpost and Terry Gilliam mocking Heard for being a «better actress than we thought».

Rather than obsessively checking my e-mail or keeping up with journal articles, I laid around and read bad fiction, hung out with my family, caught up with friends from high school, and marveled at how much everything had changed since I started graduate school.

You could say, «Hey, take me to Mars,» or «Take me to see my friend Joe,» and the virtual agent could help you navigate rather than clicking menus or moving buttons around.

Unlike our undergraduate years, where friends and associates came from all walks of life and disciplines and, more often than not, you've lived around these random people for a year or two, graduate studies seem to require a special kind of isolation.

You might find yourself withdrawing from friends and family, doing work at home rather than at your local coffee shop, quitting the gym, or doing just about anything else you used to enjoy that requires being around other people.

You shouldn't be keeping score in your friendships, but if the only time your friends come around is when they have their hands out asking for favors, it may be a sign that they're more «opportunist» than friend.

If you have an abundant harvest in your garden, there is nothing better than sitting around the table and preparing beautiful meals to share with family and friends.

When the flu is going around, people at the center of social networks — those who are named as a friend by others — come down with the virus about two weeks earlier than a randomly selected group of people, the study found.

It feels easier to avoid doing what we want (meeting with a friend for coffee, for example) than communicating what we want to (and potentially pissing off) the people around us.

Last night, in more than 600 theaters around the country, people saw my friend Joe Cross» new movie Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2.

As it turns out, I'm a lot better at sober dance parties than sitting around a table with friends while they drink lambrusco and eat chocolate cake.