Sentences with phrase «other follies»

Other follies of mine — Mr Potato Head.

When other follies, like tulipmania or eugenics, were at their height of popular obsession, the belivers in those lost causes acted the same way when confronted with uncomfortable ideas as you do defending AGW.

Not exact matches

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.

«So, if your professors won't give you an appropriate multi-disciplinary approach, if each wants to overuse his models and underuse the important models in other disciplines, you can correct that folly yourself» Charlie Munger

It would be folly to mistake bid - ask bounce in deep value penny stocks, measured from the bottom of perhaps the greatest stock crash in U.S. history, for evidence of the long - term out - performance of all small stocks versus all large stocks across other, calmer periods.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the teenagers and the other, «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of life.

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.

In that forum even some Christians had to admit the folly that a so called «god» was in control since they didn't wish to admit that this god killed those heros (or just looked the other way why they were killed).

Therefore much mystery to be had and it being folly to think of one perspective in human rational terms as being superior to the other.

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.

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.

And does she do it without regard to prestige and mere custom, without expecting advance payments from the other side, even risking to be misunderstood, simply in the evangelical folly of love?

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.

My grammar was off because I am currently sitting at my desk at my job at a major University finishing up some last minute work and I really do not have time to check my grammar while I am doing other things while I am entertaining you fools in your folly; next!

«I really do not have time to check my grammar while I am doing other things while I am entertaining you fools in your folly.»

There are deliberate paradoxes put next to each other, to make us think about them («Do not answer a fool according to his folly... Answer a fool according to his folly», Proverbs 26:4 - 5).

Advancing yourself, by attacking to reduce those around you is a folly at best; you did not improve by this act, and may have done damage to others with hurtful thoughts and actions.

We can put aside the struldbrugs in Gulliver's Travels, who had lived for hundreds of years and «who had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more, which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.»

I don't blame God for the follies of man, how could I (there is no God to blame, although it would be easier if we had something other than human passions to blame for human misery).

In 1981 he founded the New Criterion, a journal that reflects both his passion for art and aesthetic standards and his skills as a chronicler of the ideological follies so abundant in the academy and other centers of cultural power today.

Bashing each other over conflicting opinions is nonsense and folly.

In keeping with his gift of freedom God permits us to mar many things by our sin, our ignorance, our folly, and to drag others along with us in disaster.

Folly worked pretty well for Jesus, Paul, St. Francis and a holy host of others... or we might say it didn't «work well,» but was faithful and strangely powerful in an infant, toddling kind of way.

In In Praise of Folly he had written, amongst other such sharp words: I myself once heard a great fool (a great scholar I would have said) undertaking in a laborious discourse to explain the mystery of the Holy Trinity.

On the other hand, Luther was quite unable to understand the authenticity of the quiet though often acid scholar dedicated to a policy of neutrality, of attempting as far as possible to stand outside polarising polemic — Erasmus came eventually to wonder whether it might have been better not to have written In Praise of Folly, because it had led to just such polarisation.

There is no need for ignorant posts of «#WengerOut» The same thing could be said but with reasoning, do you not want to educate other fans in their folly of backing Wenger?

Me and countless other thousands, but obviously not you, you «folly fool.»

If your combined net worth is $ 500,000 and under, it is pure folly to engage in this type of divorce unless the other side is being highly unreasonable.

«The snap election was utter folly because it's ruined Theresa May's reputation but it's destroyed other people's careers and family life.

But the other side, latterly weaned from the folly of awaiting justice, and now buoyed by «federal might», would certainly not lay to be slaughtered.

I commend Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell and other town leaders for recognizing the reality of the situation and for their unwillingness to commit public dollars to construct and maintain «folly beach.»

Despite pressure from the Working Families Party — which de Blasio helped form in 1998 — the Brennan Center and others, Albany has refused to follow the city's folly.

Scientists hope that this information and other advances may resolve the hot - spot debate and demonstrate the wisdom or folly of the administration's approach to mercury regulation.

These findings all demonstrate the importance of a nutrient - dense diet as a whole, wherein nutrients naturally occur in balanced proportions, and the folly of laying blame for toxicity on a vitamin in and of itself without taking into account its interaction with other vitamins.

Franco's film dives into the insane folly of Tommy's passion project, how he buys, not rents, all of his shooting equipment, incurring massive costs for no other reason than to look like a big shot, or how he has a fake alleyway constructed to look exactly like the one outside the shooting stage.

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.

Even then, what they're usually talking about is something like Cloud Atlas, Bonfire of the Vanities, or some other totally fascinating but catastrophic folly made by an overly ambitious director possessed of more money than sense.

Franco, Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride and an ensemble of their famous friends all play themselves, lampooning each other and the folly of celebrity culture.

Here's a movie that so many, myself included, regarded with great prejudice, sizing it up as a cute jaunt that had to be seen along with the other year - end contenders, yet reeked of folly, diminished stakes, and outright opportunism, its attachment to a trilogy making excess seem like one more strike against it.

Oppenheimer's other selections included Titicut Follies, The Night of the Hunter and Even Dwarves Started Small.

I agree with Stanley Pogrow that «we all have to stop pretending that we have the answer and start learning from each other» («The Tyranny and Folly of Ideological Progressivism,» Nov. 12, 1997.)

To others, it's folly.

Any other path is folly — and could be deadly in battle.

Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Carolyn Kellogg reports that while Amazon has removed some of the offending titles from the site, other titles, such as Taken by the Vikings (rough erotic ménage romance),» Forced to Fit (taboo sex stories)» and Submissive's Folly: Seduced and Ravaged, are still available.

I am lucky enough to have had some fantastic reviews from people whose opinions I value highly, like Irish author Gerry McCullough, Canadian reviewer Benoit Lelievre at Dead End Follies, Regency Romance author Anne Gallagher, and Book Blogger Donna Hole Many thanks to you as well as all the other wonderful readers who have left such great reviews on Amazon and Goodreads.

Gospel, Apparently you've been there done that, or have just seen the blatant folly of others, and how obviously missing the point they were.

MetLife and other insurers should not have to live with the folly of «Big == Systemic Risk.»

That's why we are happy to take advantage of others» folly by running trailing stops behind our individual stock positions.

The other half she spends in Alaska sowing her wild oats with inevitable fun and folly.

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.