Sentences with phrase «thinking sobering thoughts»

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A sobering thought.

«This is a sobering thought for other producers currently sitting on shut - in production capacity and facing a renewed challenge to their market share,» the Paris - based organization added.

This moment of sober second thought caused the executives» e-mail production to drop 54 %.

This level approaches that witnessed in the U.S. and Britain just prior to the collapse of their respective financial systems and housing markets — a sobering thought.

The doped players behaved differently than the sober ones, spending as much as two minutes longer each game thinking over options, and they seemed to be making better moves.

At press time, that number continues to grow by more than 1,000 emails each day, with individuals sharing their stories and impressing upon our elected officials that a sober second thought is needed to avoid far - reaching, negative consequences.

That's a sobering thought — for the first time in years, we're trapeze artists without a net.

It is a sobering thought that 99 % of the 5,000 railway companies that once existed in America are no longer around.

It just gives me a sober second thought that any economic benefit we'd ever see from that pipeline would be wiped out in, what, three months?

However, here are some arguments why one should think twice before jumping in bed with gold bugs, or at least remain sober while determining gold's weight in the portfolio.

Financial advisor Ric Edelman gave Howard Gold at MarketWatch some pretty sobering thoughts on the bond market this past week:

Abolishing Canada's upper chamber of «sober second thought» will be hard, maybe even impossible.

Harper, of course, is having none of this sober second thinking, and is reportedly going to force the Senate to meet through the summer to pass the Bill.

Sober second thoughts, or knee - jerk political reflexes?

There is NOT ONE that can save themselves by their own rightessness.You think and believe what you want... but there is a Hell.Think of your love ones that have passed away... sobering thoughts.

It is a very sobering thought.

Leif Sober up, and think before you post.

Most Sobering: Pete Enns with «If They Only Knew What I Thought: The Sad Cycle of Evangelical Biblical Scholarship»

If any readers are tempted to think that post-Communist nations have a natural affinity for CST, Jonathan Luxmoore's excellent essay on the lack of social concern in the Polish church is sobering.

An active alcoholic — that was me — who wants to get sober but can't, and who is coming to believe that every good thing she once thought about God is a lie, is in a scary place.

Philosophical thought of men like, say, Russell and Dewey or even Hegel may be dazzling but it's sober and uncharismatic.

And if the thought does not make you giddy, if you are sober and alert, are you particular in every respect in your use of the means?

After twenty one years sober I think I know myself and can say, proclaim, and think as I please.

I've been sober in AA for quite a few years and have felt that I had to hide or defend my lack of belief in a higher power, but I think much of that discomfort comes from my need to fit in.

Del, sorry I missed your post earlier... What you wrote is a sobering reality for many people, but many will tuck it in deep within themselves, and refuse to deal with it, thinking that if they leave it alone, it'll go away... People just don't know what playing with things which are supposed to be sacred in our lives and taking them lightly, causes and where it leads to.

Second, I think Shaw said it best, «The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

I think there are certain sobering realities which the numbers tend towards, that we have to get to grips with.

I think it's a sobering fact that we humans are our own highest authority, but we choose not to believe it.

And of course, at the same time, if someone has bought into the model... and they stay clean and sober, I certainly am not one to rip the delusion they have that they «think» is working for them away from them.

Think about it — maybe when you are sober.»

Utopians are buoyed up by their expectations; Niebuhr's hopeful expectations were more sober, but they were important for his thought on moral conduct.

So, we do have compassion, and again... as I stated above, if this «way of thinking» or «model» (AA) they «believe» works for them and keeps them sober,... go for it.

A sobering thought.

Sober men now talk about the emergence of existential computers that think, feel, and will.

It is a sobering thought.

I used to think that theology was a serious subject, which required sound thinking, sober minds, and no laughter or joy.

Of course, man of our scientific age, brought up, as he thinks, to sober exactness, will call such talk emotional, mere poetry and cheap comfort.

While it's funny to think that the «pigs» are offended that they're not getting pearls (I'm sure that's closer to real life that not) its also sobering to think that perhaps most pigs don't know who they are.

But men at whiles are sober, And think by fits and starts.

It is a sobering thought that Richard Wilbur, the two - time Pulitzer Prize - winning poet (1957, 1989) who was named poet laureate of the United States in 1987, is now ninety years old.

It's a sobering thought to myself to think of such justice.

But using many of the same methods, by the grace of rational thinking, I've been sober 23 years.

We must think of experience — drunk experience, sober experience — we must go through all the possibilities.

I did the same thing, I just attended the meetings and kept my thoughts on a so - called «power greater than myself» what ever the hell that is... total abstenience is the only way to stay sober.

They of all people should have recognized Him and the truth, yet they didn't, Very sobering thought.

AA's primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety, but some members seem to think AA should save souls, not save drunks.

A sobering thought to be sure.

Far too often, professionals and laymen a like have been deluded into thinking there is one and only one way to get and stay clean / sober - «find God».

But time and place are strong medicine for many in our world, where, to quote Flannery O'Connor, many people «ain't frum anywhere,» and where a contemporary writer like Warren's fellow Kentuckian Bobbie Ann Mason finds a sobering story in the lives of many of her characters who can't think of anything to do with themselves.

I don't think Bill and Bob were trying to get sober one day at a time when they started AA.