Sentences with phrase «liked living down»

I had liked living down south on the edge of land, next to the pushing - pulling waves.

Not exact matches

«He's someone who wants to be on the forefront of the headlines, but when it really comes down to it, it's like the real - life version of the «Wizard of Oz» — pay no attention to the man behind the curtain there.»

In advance of the new season of Blue Collar Millionaires, we sat down with Connie Lorenz to ask what it was like to whistle - blow on the president, and how her life has changed since.

And the area's residents like coming down hills just as much as living atop one: fully 17 % are skiing aficionados.

And while most of us may not update our online followers every half hour like Sullivan did in his heyday, fiending for a Facebook fix 85 times a day is still obviously a good way down the road towards online life crowding out real - world experience.

It can be maddening to get up to speed on the local way of life, but if you can slow down and embrace all of the new - to - me scenarios, like convoluted street parking rules, compost and recycling programs, and endless public transportation delays (Hello, Bay Area Rapid Transit!)

The first step to achieving something vastly important but fuzzily defined like work - life balance isn't soul - searching or reading up on the issue, it's nailing down what you mean by the term in the first place.

(If the limited partners of these VC's acted like real fiduciaries rather than waiting for the end of life of the fund, more than half of old - line venture firms would have shut themselves down today.)

Like any of number of fictional futures, from Metropolis to Altered Carbon, it is a society where the wealthy in live in glistening towers in the clouds, surrounded by technologies of luxury and convenience, looking down on an underclass that can not afford basic necessities.

If hounding every person you've ever cared about into adopting encryption tools like PGP sounded like fun, you'll love living in a van down by the river with no internet access.1

You're working to hard to be living like this and deep down you know that you are ready for a change.

Progress is knocking at the door, but pretty soon it's just going to kick the door down and march into the living room whether you like it or not.

Of course, writes Crupi, «Viacom's entire raison d'être boils down to street cred, which is a somewhat outdated way of saying that the company lives or dies on its ability to scout and sign digital natives like Liza Koshy, whose primary YouTube channel boasts 14.3 million subscribers.

Apparel Stores Changing consumer tastes and the transition to online / mobile shopping is making life tough for some companies, like Urban Outfitters, which is down more than -30 % on the year.

He started at the top - outlining the buyer personas, explaining why they would buy from ChowNow, how ChowNow would make their life better, why they would choose ChowNow and what things will look like 6 - 12 months down the road if they buy ChowNow.

Some people exist in a world so unlike our own that it's difficult to imagine them being bogged down with the concerns we have — concerns like breathing or living.

Perhaps new people live there Who think the street name quaint, and watch the dogwood petals shiver Down like flakes of paint.

Like me now I live alone in the woods with squirrels and rabbits and deer and foxes and a huge owl that comes down by my cabin and makes a spooky noise in the night, but we are friends and it is all ok.

people like you Pitt are the reason why people like me read this stuff, we are AFRAID that you will overrun our world, force your anger and hate down our children's throats, you like living in fear of your god, yup you do..

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

In the morning they are like grass which grows up: In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers» The psalmist compares the human life to grass in order to help us realize how helpless and weak we are without God!

That reminds me of my comparison of the Christian Industrial Complex and how they sell Jesus (like Apple sells ipods), the top down organization, not questioning those at the top, putting a smile on your face no matter what b / c life is perfect with Jesus, and now the patent on exclusive rights!

No children with zero lives and like magic, 18 years later crime went down 40 %.

I like the concept of God coming down and trying to experience one of our lives instead of just observing them.

He took my seemingly perfect life, shook it around like a snow globe, and settled me back down, gently and in one piece.

I'd started to scratch it down in my journal and that scratching started decoding a bit of my life: You end up drinking mud soup whenever you see yourself as the passive victim in your story, instead of an active co-writer of your story, when you act like you don't determine your responses to a situation — but your actions and responses are determined by somebody else.

I like to think that my God (no other word for him) reached down in his mercy and told me these things to give me a chance at life.

In the past, randomness was cruel, like when the venue manager at their first live show told them they needed to quiet down or when animatronic wolves started howling in the middle of a casino set in Vegas (yep, that happened).

Lent is this living more of the beatitudes — to bless more of this broken world with the indestructible, upside down beauty that's formed like the heart of Christ.

There's nothing quite like dodging sauce on the ground as you get down on one knee for perhaps the most important moment in your life up to then.

When you pray to be like Jesus, God will begin to break down, burn away, and slough off anything and everything in your life that does not look like Jesus.

Oh man... not me... that thing looks like it could come to life in the middle of the night, scoot it's way down the hallway, dropping needles along the way, leaving a trail of tree sap, and squeeze you to death right in your bed.

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

And yet there is more to this Kingdom that is still to come, Jesus said, and so we await a day when every tear will be wiped from every eye, when swords will be beaten into plowshares and spears shaped into a pruning hooks, when justice will cascade like a river down a mountain and righteousness like a never - ending stream, when people from every tribe and tongue and nation will live together in peace, when there will be no more death.

One young woman asked me this question with tears streaming down her face, for she had been made to feel small and worthless by churches like these, and she lived in fear that thousands upon thousands of women were experiencing the same thing and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

And if the church simply ignores these storms, we are acting just like Jonah when he went down into the hull of the ship and fell asleep while the storm from God threatened the lives of all on board.

She blogs about rediscovering her faith, learning to live in the moment, raising a son with Down syndrome, and just generally feeling like a square peg in a world full of round holes at These Square Pegs.

Someone like Hawking whos body is clearly breaking down can look at things two ways... It's a (god given) miracle he's alive at all or life really stinks and why would any god do this to someone deliberately.

One ear hears the imperative to active public life expressed in Amos: «Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever - flowing stream.»

That which is Real, that which makes life worth living or at least endurable, is to be found up there or down there, back there or out there, on some far perimeter of existence, beyond the dull, trivial, boring, repetitive commonplaces of life, like carrying fuel and drawing water.

A California walking stick insect that has evolved to produce individuals with two distinct appearances — an all - green form that camouflages well with broader leaves and a form with a white stripe running down its back that blends better with needle - like leaves — can markedly affect its broader ecological community when the appearance of the bug is mismatched with the plant it's living on.

There is a skill and diplomacy to know how to put aside the cultural expectations and still live out Christ's love and generosity much like the father in the story of the prodigal son - both sons and the father knew the cultural rules, but when it came down to it, the father, who had much to lose, put aside those cultural burdens in order to love lavishly.

Like I said, it's incredulous disbelief that you shut - down our real world and live in something that is so incredibly false it is shameful.

2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; 3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

Oh you mean, like come down to Earth as a man, live a perfect life, then get executed for crimes He didn't commit, resurrect, then show us all that our sins are forgiven and that we all can have eternal life?

It took like 50 years for them to be written down and by then anybody who would have been around to call bull was probably already dead, as people didn't live as long back then as they do now.

Luke warns, «Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day catch you unexpectedly, like a trap.

Would you rather live as a Christian, thinking that no matter what you do, Christ will forgive you and let you into heaven and therefor live as hedonistic a lifestyle as you like, looking down at the unsaved pagans with disdain all along.

Featuring Meath and a bunch of backup performers, the video covers the group as they dance their way to a post-apocalypse convenience store and chow down like their lives depend on it (and maybe they do).

i wouldnt trust a damn one of them to tell me the truth about anything... As an atheist, i do nt beleive «god» will strike me down if i lie, or have no morals, but i do have to live with myself, i like to think i am a good person...