Sentences with phrase «very ordinary thing»

The point is for your puppy to look at the crate as a very ordinary thing that it should not be afraid of.

I know that for a lot of people birth seems like this magical process (or at least seems like it ought to be) but all these people are losing sight of the fact that it's really a very ordinary thing.

Our epitaphs are just very ordinary things.»

Not exact matches

«It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.»

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

As Whitehead points out, this concept of substance mirrors the ordinary concept of a thing, according to which reality consists in «things» that are «simply located,» are isolated from one another, and manifest an unchanged, enduring essence, their very «substance,» that underlies their fixed or changeable determining conditions or «accidents.

They were to all appearances very ordinary people, usually devoutly religious people, who knew that some things must not be done and who put their lives in the way of the doing of such things.

[11] Vowsare very different in kind from the sort of ordinary undertakings we give to do things - «I'll come to see you tomorrow», «I'll write to you», and so on.

We can — and should — make room for joy and defend the simple pleasures and celebrations, the very things that seem too small or too ordinary or too humble to stack up against suffering.

For Machiavelli, «it is a thing truly very natural and ordinary to desire to acquire,» and a pity to let principles interfere.

The salad is a ordinary thing but dressing is very very essential because this dressing only gives life to your salad recipe.

Whole Wheat Mixed Berry Loaf Cake — Quick breads seem like such an ordinary thing that wouldn't usually make it to my list of absolute favorites from the year, but this loaf cake still stands out in my mind months later as one of the very best things I whipped up this year.

Second half proved one thing to me, Arsenal have a title winning eleven, may be twelve, but after that we are very ordinary.

So this system works really well and it gets that dirty fuel from the oil well, on to the tanker to the refinery, to your neighbor and into your car, and it's a system; and what that system allows is for ordinary people to do pretty extraordinary things; to get personal mobility at what for many years, was a very cheap price.

The gift of putting things together that are out of the ordinary, or that not very many people would think they would go together.

The way bikers date is already very different from ordinary people, but there are also things you can do to make your first date with a biker the most memorable one yet.

Other oddities: how Jackson sets up each segment in a very overdramatic way, how the other commenting celebrities appear in a moving parchment of sorts, how some of the questions are either no - brainers or a stretch in relating to the movie, how the ordinary kids are strangely posed and filmed, and how the whole thing is both bordered by oak and letterboxed.

It's really the best horror movie ever made... I do also happen to think that this is a really spooky, scary topic, that you could be possessed or that there could be supernatural things happening that impact your very ordinary life.

Here's the thing; for all its fancy, cutting - edge looks, the Cherokee presents a very ordinary drive.

The dashboard is also very similar to what you get in the regular Leon ST estate — but this isn't necessarily a good thing, as it seems a bit dull and ordinary for an exciting performance model like the Cupra.

«Despite the common things that inspire her, Cole's works are very much her own, and anything but ordinary.»

... My picture of our society is that the things that unite us, at a very simple level, are the ordinary things we make to survive.

If the tank contained ordinary air but with CO2 removed you'd only roast your hand but if anyone were so craZy as to add CO2 that could start a chain reaction that might lead to runaway global waming and very well could destroy every living thing on the planet.

They see how much better things could be for the majority of stakeholders and that incompetence, inefficiencies and bad practices serve in the interests of very few people, not including employees, ordinary shareholders and customers.

Saying thank you is a very nice thing to do and it does go a long way, but if written as an ordinary thank you, it is not strategic enough to add another dimension to your candidacy, it leverages not an additional qualifier, and doesn't elevate your interview performance.

The other thing of course, as lots of educators I know will say there's nothing going on in our community, there's nothing happening, it's just a very ordinary suburb, but I do think looking beyond the four walls of your service, just to be aware and mindful about what's going on you, will notice things that are interesting.

However, Cordray did add a cautionary note, «We recognize that various other things can and do change in the days leading up to the closing, so the rule makes allowances for those ordinary changes without delaying the closing date in ways that neither the buyer nor the seller may be able to accommodate very easily.»