Sentences with phrase «something about the nature»

Richard Isay, a gay physc and a leading proponent and promoter of gay intercourse, was on a panel where someone asked him about a Kinsey - like statement that Isay had made — something about nature's indifference to any form of S.

If there really were a god, why hasn't he inspired and guided sincere seekers to understand at least something about his nature?

And radio, for Keillor, teaches us something about the nature of time itself — especially how quickly it all seems to go.

I don't know, but I remember this story because it says something about the nature of relationships we all experience.

We learn something about the nature of God when we take seriously the cultures that take shape in God's name.

Either we can learn something about nature at large by reflecting upon ourselves as samples of natural fact, or we can not.

Names did not merely mark off A from B; they really said something about the nature of those who bore them.

Through exaggeration, we can learn something about the nature of war.

Thus, «forms of abstraction» become «the way in which the forces and vitalities of nature [are] set before us as positive mysteries, echoing something about nature and about ourselves.»

We have discovered something about the nature of these atoms that we did not know before.

Just as the discovery that sodium chloride has properties not exhibited by sodium and chlorine in isolation tells us something about the nature of sodium and chlorine which we could not otherwise know, so too the existence of subjectivity in combinations of atoms that make human brains tells us something about the nature of those atoms that make those brains.

That something is possible for this universe says something about the nature of this universe.

But I think that understanding something about the nature of the brain encourages us to be sensible.

«This might be telling us something about the nature of motivated reasoning: people resist other political views not by few narrow - minded utterances blaming or downgrading the «other»; they put effort into constructing opposing thoughts that are rich in content and volume.

Because in the words of Rachel Carson, «If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones — we had better know something about their nature and their power» (preach, girl!).

Perhaps all of it started when we were playing blocks or lego as children, or perhaps the fact that children love building blocks says something about our nature towards building.

There's just something about nature — it's incredibly soothing, restful, and healing in a soul - deep way.

Many states ended up appearing in multiple «Top 5» lists, which could indicate something about the nature of people living there.

theres just something about nature and...

«I wanted to write a fantasy that would say something about the nature of my childhood and what it was like growing up in a small town, and about how magic exists for children,» he explains.

So he designed an experiment to learn something about the nature of obedience, responsibility and respect for authority.

It's something about the nature of goodness and kindness.

I think we still look at and love the Impressionists because they capture something about nature that is both vivid and idealized.

And I think it's also something about the nature of the innocence of childhood and how easily lost that is.

Each dog that has passed through my life has taught me something about their nature and my heart.

If bigger leads to better performance, there must be something about the nature of the product or service in question that requires a large organization.

Each day at camp, I would learn a new skill, discover something about nature, or make a new friend.

Not exact matches

That says something important about the nature of modern leadership.

There's something about being out in nature that can help ground you and allow you prioritize everything in your life.

Entrepreneurship, a French word for «undertaking» is really about taking on something that by its nature — is challenging.

There's just something about the calming influence of nature, even if it's just a little bit in a pot on your desk.

Worship, to him, entails obeying the great commandments to love God and your neighbor, something that he thinks any sincere person could do, whatever erroneous views they hold about God's nature.

I believe this wise and nuanced document says something true about human nature; I'm afraid Mr. Smalling might label it «common bigotry.»

But outside of Christianity, and in the laws of nature, something about it seems wrong to me.

Late medieval holism, though «weak,» may honor something essential about the nature of Christian truth seeking.

Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.

The one remarkable thing about the television set, according to him, is that it moves — a thesis which in view of the nature of American programs has, admittedly, something attractive about it.

God's freedom is part of the hidden nature, or mystery, of God — something that we don't hear much about today.

When we say that something is perishable or corruptible, we are speaking about its nature.

Sexual relationships between a husband and a wife can participate in the meaning of communion that reaches the edges of holiness and has something of the nature of a sacrament about it.

and, if god is going to punish someone for something in which they have no choice (also a claim made by blog christians), what does that say about the nature of god?

If, as Zennists claim, such endeavors lead us to learn something about the fundamental nature of our own experience, they might also lead us to learn something about the fundamental nature of God's experience.

Don't you think if men were killing the planet via overpopulation that God / Mother Nature might do something about it.

The only light I care to hear about in the news is if we discover something more about the nature of actual light, how to travel closer to the speed of it, or if using it aids in the discovery of something else.

Galileo transcended himself by finding something out about the laws of nature we had not known before.

Seeing how two intuitions about something are compatible with each other quite often requires a hypothesis about the nature of the thing in question.

I once cite «Realism and Idealism,» the passage about objective idealism in which Collingwood clearly states his conception of the world of nature: «Thus it conceives the world of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world of immaterial ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world of mental activities or of things depending on mental activity although it is an intelligible world or a world in which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

This confidence springs from something he comprehends about Jesus and the nature of commands.

Just think about the size of the comet that would have to create something like that, not to mention all the other consequences that would arise from a massive impact of that nature (namely destruction of almost all life on earth except for deep, deep sea creatures).