Sentences with phrase «once wrote a friend»

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«Act with fortitude and honor,» Alexander Hamilton once wrote to a distraught friend in serious financial and legal trouble of the man's own making.

Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people.

(«I have to add the last point explicitly,» he once wrote to his friend M. Solovine, «lest you think that, weakened by age, I have fallen into the hands of priests.»)

Writing of her mother, Flannery O'Connor once told a friend, «I always thought that if she had a dog she'd name him Spot» without irony.

Children were expected to write letters to family and friends once they got older, not essays on the soliloquies of Hamlet.

One of his friends wrote in a book once, after reflecting on the necessary good that frequent defeats built into a man's character, he personally could not trust anyone who did not play sports.

Author Shauna Niequist once wrote, «We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.»

18 So Mark has written, for once permitting the language of emotion to breach the severe reserve of his narrative Jesus now left his friends and withdrew «about a stone's throw,» to fall into solitary and agonized prayer.

«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.

My friend, Sarah, recently wrote a post I've already referenced once, Exodus.

And he had to write in similar vein to his friend Christoph Scheurl, once the Dean Of Law at Wittenberg and now a leading humanist at Nuremberg, to whom Staupitz had shown the book.

I have a recollection that I can not now confirm that his great friend Sherwood Eddy once wrote of Niebuhr at mid-career that one of his limitations was that he had never really suffered.

I once started to write a book called Potatoes are your Best Friend, but I got distracted by the food..

Kind of an unlikely way to write a book, but I basically wrote the lifestyle that me and all my friends and everybody at Attachment Parenting International and La Leche League sort of know about but I guess once you put a celebrity name on it people will pay attention.

If you've spent the past few years building up your thumb strength and agility while keeping up with which bars have good drink specials (as I wrote the original version of this article, I was looking at a friend's message from the previous night that said, and I kid you not, «CcCome to bedinbl» — Jen had maybe been at a barstool a little too long...), you already know that text messages are an efficient way to get a brief burst of information in front of a lot of people at once.

I like this post, but I feel that maybe some of the least popular posts are just not so popular because of some details, I explain — in my case, for ex, I'd love to read as much as I can, but I tend to visit your blog and other blogger friends once a week — if i visit more times, what I really would like to do, I won't have any phd research anymore, since I need to read book and write.

i like writing music outdoors and chillin with my friends, i am not very trusting but once you have my trust it is hard to break

Once written you can then review it with friends and family who could then help you rewrite it.

When I decided to try online dating for the first time, I gathered a group of friends together to help me write my profile (something I suggest every dater do at least once.)

Granted in a lot of ways, it is still very much so the game we first saw back in 2013, but now it has been remastered, updated and it now supports co-op play and that is an ultimate game changer as LEGO City Undercover was already a highly enjoyable game, with great writing and humour, but now you get to experience it all once again, but with a friend!

What it has going for it is the fact that it was written by his buddy Jon Favreau, who once again co-stars, and it's directed by their long - time friend Peter Billingsley (aka Ralphie from A Christmas Story) who has also produced many of their films over the years.

Once kind of violent, occasionally sweet, and always a little crude, Sandler's signature vehicles, unmistakably written for him by his friends and sometimes himself, have regularly crossed the $ 100 million mark domestically since The Waterboy did it in 1998.

It is with this as the background that Edutopia has asked me to write yet another post on The PLN to which I respond: «Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.&raOnce more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.&raonce more.»

Find a friend also writing a book, and then set - up a once a week meeting to touch - base and recount the progress you've both made.

Donna once told me the reason her books take so long to write (her last one, The Little Friend, was published 12 years ago) is that they are about as long as three regular novels.

Particularly when any written work is swamped by tens of thousands of books that in another time would only ever be bought by friends and family — purely out of charity for the writer and the knowledge that once all those short - run books are no longer clogging up the author's parent's garage, the parents might actually be able to park their car undercover again.

A friend once told me, if you are a single guy trying to figure out exactly how women work and you want to be able to find the right woman, pick up a romance novel and try to figure... start there, because we write what we like.

The major benefits being you'll sell a good number of books to your friends in family at once, you'll collect names and contact information for sales leads, and get much needed encouragement and compliments on all the hard work you've put into writing and publishing.

Once upon a time, a friend wrote up some game notes in amusing detail — particularly because the character's view was... quite different from that of everyone else involved.

So once I started thinking about that, and assembling a team (my friend Sarah Bunting edited it, and I hired a formatting company and cover artist on Ken's recommendation), I realized I could write the exact book I wanted to do, and do it on my own schedule.

Don't ever forget what a friend once wrote to Senator Paul Tsongas when the senator had decided not to run for reelection because he'd been diagnosed with cancer: «No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time at the office.»

It can help you avoid embarrassing mistakes that will haunt you to the end of your writing days, because once you've distributed your book, it will appear on Amazon for resale as new or used by various third - party resellers with that horrible self - created cover and all those copyediting errors in your manuscript, not to mention that character you later wrote out because she was portrayed a bit too much like your litigious ex-best friend.

Then had a writing friend do another read through and re-drafted it once more.

Once she discovered social media, however, she founded the Lil Olive Facebook page and spent many hours writing to and interacting with tens of thousands of friends from all over the world.

«Once [pet owners] find the products that work, they will often share that news with their friends, write reviews online, and will make sure they always have the products on hand,» she explains.

A story I've told often — to friends, seminars of young artists, even, once to my daughters, though I'm not sure if they remember it — but never written down, nor even thought of doing so.

«I once again have phenomenal respect for the spaces between the pyramids,» he wrote to a friend upon returning to Monte Albán in 1936.

As critic and friend Jeffrey Deitch once wrote: «Basquiat is likened to the wild boy raised by wolves, a child of the streets gawked at by the intelligentsia.

According to William Seitz, Gorky was inspired by heraldic figures and horses in combat or parade dress.21 In an early biography of Gorky, his student and friend Ethel Schwabacher wrote that his image was based on an equestrian in Uccello's «Battle of San Romano» (1438 — 40), which Gorky had once sketched.22 In a recent biography, Hayden Herrera claimed that the «Betrothals» were inspired by medieval marriages, commenting that «the figure on the left [is] an equestrian bride wearing a wreath or a crown and, following her to the right, a helmeted male.»

Bregman writes that Neel's «depictions are at once traditionally representational and non-traditionally provocative, with the images of her neighbors, friends, family, and other New Yorkers portrayed in a way that questions the confines of socioeconomics and heteronormativity.

His friends included art world giants like Frank Stella, who once wrote an article about Hofmann titled The Artist of the Century.

In a poem written to a friend about the habit people had of following the crowd rather than thinking for themselves Albers once wrote: «Everyone senses his place through his neighbor.»

Freilicher's work may lack the breath - taking virtuosity of her hero, Pierre Bonnard, but as her friend, the art critic and Pulitzer Prize poet James Schuyler once wrote, «She is a natural: properties of the real world and of the imagined are casually linked in an intensity of color and of relaxed stroke.»

As my friend, Larry Schweiger, former President of the National Wildlife Federation, once wrote, «It's not enough to care; we must link our concern to each other and act collectively»

By Dee Williams Someone once wrote an article about my tiny house that described me as a «Sustainable Barbie,» which threw my friends and I into hysterics.

A friend of mine in the movement once wrote that she knows we're going to win because we're cooler than they are.

When you send a photo or video via Direct, your friends will be able to view it once and replay it or write a reply.

When you use Direct, your friends will be able to view your photo or video once and replay it or write a reply.

As a former recruiter, I get a «friends and family» resume question at least once a week, and my # 1 tip is always the same: Before you start writing your resume, make a list of the keywords that are important to your industry and function.

Once you are done with writing the resume, you can consult your friends and colleagues and ask their opinion about your resume.