Sentences with phrase «told she was too»

Although most investors were cordial, Tasner says, one «basically told me I was too old.

Related: Richard Branson on Sheryl Sandberg, «Leaning In,» and Balanced Workplaces The same thing happened when Sandberg asked whether women were told they were too aggressive at work.

«It would be easy for me to be super negative here like so many others that I talk to, but when I look at the data, it tells me being too negative will be a mistake.»

For years, Facebook has been telling us it's too big to prevent all the bad behavior it enables.

(If they tell you you're too loud, turn it down!

«They tell me I'm too old.

I told her I was too busy at work.

Now, I'm beginning to hear people tell me I'm too old to do the work I do.

I showed her my blog and she told me I was too ecumenical.

Rape culture is when a comedienne comments on rape jokes and the response is people making rape threats, telling her she's too ugly to get raped, saying that she actually wants to get raped, and telling her that rape is a compliment.

Don't negate the power of the underwear — they tell you it is too spiritual to discuss or the Osmonds will tell you it is a reminder of their faith (like wearing a cross), but they wear it because it protects them from Satan — the brother of Jesus.

Women were degraded, told they were too emotional, and only used to speak on panels if they were praising the men.

He is what you seek, but your logic tells you you are too smart for him.

Other people tell me I'm too nice, that I avoid conflict, that I should get better at arguing and confronting, taking a stand.

I was often told I was too permissive with them, but I stuck to my guns.

Sometimes people tell me I'm too positive (as if it were a bad thing), but I try to take these comments as compliments instead of criticism.

After this week though exams will be over, it will be summer holidays and I very much doubt I will be able to find a job by then (seeing as I've been looking for the last six months already with very little luck, mostly due to the fact that every time a place gets back to me I tell them I'm too busy.)

and I was really surprised when he told me it is too sweet for him!!!.

When summer comes, I will tell him it's too hot out for running or that I have not rounded into shape quite yet.

She has dreamed of running competitively from the time she was 10, when she first watched her elders do so and cried when she was told she was too young to join them.

Throughout his life Thomas has been hearing people tell him he's too small to play football.

Truth be told we were too weak throughout the pitch, strength wise.

Chris Peterson has been doing it for a long time, and at Boise State he made a living off of kids who were told they were too slow, not big enough and not tall enough.

Last fall, a friend of mine, was always very skeptical of the process in general told me I was too high on the sixers this year.

Everyone's telling me we're too young with YMM, and today you fucking proved it.

«I was just telling him he was too big to get that mad,» Graham explained.

Mert was one of those dumped from the club of his youth — told he was too slow.

Scott Cross reminded them of this when they complained and was let go because the AD doesn't like being told he's too cheap to be Gonzaga.

«People have told me I'm too small to play Division I ball,» he says.

Ask him now, though, at the precipice of his NFL career, and he'll say he's only selectively listening to the voices on social media telling him he's too short, or that his offense at the University of Oklahoma won't translate, or that his best NFL comparison is a certain first - round burnout from his part of the country.

No disrespect but i told him he is too good for Arsenal.

I get a lot of criticism from my folks and fam... telling me he's too old «for that»!

Some people tell me that he'll grow out of this, while my mother - in - law tells me I'm too soft and should punish him.

The problem is that his total milk consumption (including whole milk) for the day is often 30 ounces, which I am told is too much.

If the weather experts tell us it is too warm out to go for a walk, it is likely too warm to play sports.

Most people told me it was too early but it was the only thing I got accomplished before my daughter was born 10 weeks later at 33 weeks.

She was alone in the delivery room, no nurses or doctors with her while she labored and gave birth to an 8 & 1 / 2 lb baby at 7 cm because no one was there to tell her it was too soon to push.

He wanted me to let him out of the gate, he was going to chase after her, but I told him it was too late, that she had already driven away.

Are you TWO already??? I've been told you're too old for me to refer to you as my baby, but guess what?

Still, we've come a long way since the 70s, when my mom was told I was too small to breastfeed, or that she should give me a bottle of rice cereal when I was four months to «help me sleep» (oh, wait, I think I heard that one last week!).

I have spent my life being told I am too much.

Instead of getting mad, I simply told her that was too loud and that we don't shout at the grocery store.

At first, she became distraught when I told her I was too sore to allow her to nurse, so I «gave in.»

My son is 9 months old and I've already had a random stranger tell me he's too old to nurse.

«The government requires teachers to work until they are 68, but fails to prevent the widespread discrimination practiced in too many schools against older teachers who are disproportionately subject to capability procedures, denied access to CPD and regularly told they are too expensive.

Yet when they finally feel safe enough to report their abuse, the law tells them it's too late.

For now, @MarcoRubio team, at the very least include a character counter so that constituents don't take the trouble to share their story, only to be told it's too long for you to manage.

In the accompanying interview, she declared: «I've been told I'm too pretty to be in politics.»

Barwell says he tried to «moderate» his approach to Twitter after a friend told him he was too argumentative.

According to a report yesterday in the Worcester News Corinne Tovey - Jones, standing in the Nunnery division in Worcestershire, said she wanted to withdraw from the election but was told it was too late to remove her name from ballot papers.