Sentences with phrase «on folly»

I have two clients who own houses on Folly Beach and use them as vacation rentals that they stay in when they're not rented.

I have a classmate who owns Two on Folly Beach.

On Folly Island, many lots stood vacant for some years, as memories of the hurricane persisted.

«ROBERT S. NEUMAN»S SHIP TO PARADISE» presents the large - scale mixed - media drawings related to his Ship to Paradise portfolio that was commissioned to accompany a facsimile edition of Sebastian Brandt's The Shyp of Fooles, a medieval allegory on the folly of vice.

Located on Folly Island, Folly beach is a historical place in South Carolina, United States.

Leave the car under the covered parking and stay in and use the fully equipped kitchen and television for dinner and movie night, or step out and walk to shopping, dining, and entertainment of Center Street on Folly Beach.

If surfing isn't your speed, there are other things to do on Folly Beach — watch the locals catch waves while you soak up the gorgeous surroundings.

Beachside Bed & Breakfast on Folly Beach, SC.

In this 10 September 2007 blog post Yet more evidence on the folly of forecasting, or why we don't need economists!

Subscribe to comments with RSS or TrackBack to «On The Folly of Inflation Targeting In A World Of Interest Bearing Money».

You don't even have to worry about getting stuck when parking in a sandlot on Folly.

The Swedish director of Force Majeure and The Square, starring Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West, on the folly of screen violence and finding drama in the oddities of human behaviour

Instead of staying downtown Charleston, we rented a beach house on Folly Beach (a 15 minute drive to downtown).

That data helped initiate a plastic bag ban on Folly Beach in South Carolina, Bailey said.

Rep. Peter KIng looked like he was pretty close to getting ill on camera himself as he was forced to comment on the folly of his Republican colleagues and at least you knew there was one sane Republican in the House.

Ezekiel calls us on our folly.

Couple Shandling's inner philosophy with the themes of The Larry Sanders Show — which doted on the follies of egomaniacs and as Apatow says «was about people who loved each other, but show business got in the way» — and one wonders how Shandling's $ 100M lawsuit with late manager and friend Brad Grey rattled his world.

You'll find many other posts on the follies of the climate change hysteria, as well as other posts, reflecting my decidedly left - wing views.

Not exact matches

But fly - fishing isn't just a folly for this outdoorsman; it's a chance to keep tabs on the ranch's most valuable residents, the trout population.

It would be folly to look too far into the future of Canadian monetary policy, and the Bank of Canada offered no guidance on what it will do next.

Some in the Canadian banking establishment regarded its generous interest rates on deposits — they began at 4 %, at least double that offered by Canada's dominant Big Six banks — as risible folly.

If you're set on a beach day, Folly Beach will be celebrating with fireworks (set off by professionals) on the 4th.

It is business folly to rely on just one bank account for all your needs.

States should not and can not impose their will on other states, but instead should compete for residents and businesses based on the wisdom or folly of their political choices.

Regardless of whether the great scientist actually said it (the earliest print reference comes from an Alcoholics Anonymous pamphlet), it's the sort of advice you'd expect from the world's smartest guy: don't waste your time on repetitive folly.

«But believing that this type of search will ferret out an entrepreneur intent on scamming the public is folly.»

Greece should learn from America's folly and refuse to borrow from the ECB to pay bondholders on debts that have been run up by not taxing wealth, especially that of the FIRE sector.

Make sure to also check out Value Investing Congress notes from the first day and then stay tuned for more hedge fund portfolio tracking here on Market Folly daily.

The Value Investing Congress has been posting updates of the first day of the event on Twitter (make sure to follow us as well) and we wanted to aggregate their brief updates into a comprehensive post here on Market Folly.

The Folly of Macroeconomic Forecasting and the Importance on Focusing on Valuation / Margin of Safety

South Korea and Japan together are responsible for almost 30 % of global trade volume, so excluding Korean exchanges with so much influence on the markets could be considered folly.

The consequences of this folly are far reaching for anyone who cares about good journalism, enjoys bingeing on Netflix, works with advertising, or plans to have a role in the future of the Internet.

Rick, even most Republicans have moved on from this folly.

Wow.Mr.Limbaugh's belated «apology «aside, I find myself stunned at the level of vitriol, rudeness, and sheer hatred we seem determined to spew at each across the web nowadays; its advent has obviously unleashed some deeply - buried, long - simmering resevoirs of hate, scorn, and opprobium that has finally boiled over among many of us.If we spent even a third of that energy seeking solutions to righting the badly - listing ship - of - state called America... Well.The politicians aren't going to do it, fellow citizens.As clever as we think we are venting over folly and nonsense on these websites, we had better get busy getting our nation's affairs in order, or we'll become the laughingstock of the world, with tiny,no - name third world countries thumbing their noses at us and telling us to «Get lost, America, you silly, Hollywood has - been.

The other theme, regularly expressed by those on the right in our politics, is to blame everything on the failures of «Great Society liberals,» to chalk the situation up to the follies of big government and big spending, to see the problem as the legacy of a tragically misconceived welfare state.

If that isn't enough, it follows through on its threats, unless we «humble ourselves and repent» from the folly of listening to what our heart and gut are telling us.

The reading from 1 Corinthians focuses attention on the cross as the power of Christ: «For the word, of the cross is folly to...

Whether the innocent suffer because of natural disasters (like earthquakes) or because the consequences of human folly and injustice (like wars and revolutions) do not fall only on the guilty, the burden of suffering is so heavy that praising God seems not only out of the question but also a violation of our moral sense.

On the other hand, the non-Christian — the one who, living under a tyrannous regime or in a society where, it seems, social injustice will never end, wants to kill the tyrant or destroy the society; the one who, exploited or degraded by a colonialist regime, wants to kill the oppressor; the man who, victimized by a racist society, wants to avenge by violence the indignities heaped upon him — all these, along with their violence, their hatred, their folly, must be accepted by those of us who are Christians.

What is meant is putting God's power and goodness to a test, acting rashly and expecting him to extricate us from the results of our folly, as the Israelites did on the occasion referred to in the verse Jesus quoted (Deut 6:16; cf. Ex 17:1 - 7; Ps 95:8 - 9): «as you tested him at Massah.»

Humor, on the other hand, is born from an altogether higher recognition: that tragic contradiction is not absolute, that finitude is not only pain and folly, and that the absurdity of our human contradictions can even be a cause for joy.

For it is premised on the conviction — fictionally adumbrated rather than overtly stated — that the God who sits in his heavens and laughs our folly to scorn is first and finally the God of grace who, in Jesus Christ, humorously accepts and thus transforms our sin into the occasion for his mercy.

To doubt its inspiration would be folly; on the other hand, to take it as literally inspired and therefore all of one level would be to miss the great events and the lights and shadows of experience that brought it into being.

Runciman's History resembles the medieval chronicles on which it is based, using narratives of events and depictions of individuals to draw moral as well as historical lessons: «by the inexorable laws of history, the whole world pays for the crimes and follies of each of its citizens.»

Perhaps Eichenwald's greatest folly is in arguing that anyone who adopts Paul's lawfree gospel must give up on the prohibitions of Leviticus against homosexual practice.

On this site, however, Snøhetta's architectural folly seems not just obnoxiously but obscenely self - indulgent.

We, the privileged of earth, have appropriated and exploited the earth and all that is in it, the world and those who dwell therein; we have founded our folly now even upon the seas; and we have established the ineradicable marks of our vandalism over the virginal, variegated, speechless faces of the earth and, by the billion, on the innocent and until now largely submissive faces of the human family.

And we remain on the earth, unchanged: human folly and tragedy remain what they have always been — but with the gnawing of love, the leaven concealed in the dough (but it has not yet risen), the seed hidden in the ground (but it has not sprung up), and the salt put in the soup (but it has not dissolved).

The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»

Proverbs 9 seems to suggest that someone might be tempted to bypass wisdom's feast and try to survive on the thin gruel of folly (or information).