Sentences with phrase «who moved a mountain»

I have written often about the man who moved a mountain so that a school could be built.

Thanks be to God who moves mountains.

Is there anyone else out there who moves mountains to accomplish big projects, but leaves the little details undone?

A story we read was the Chinese Folk Story, «Story of the Foolish Old man Who Moved Mountains», about a man that went out to shovel a mountain that was blocking his view.

Well, it was really Maximilian Oceanus who moved those mountains and turned a large freshwater lake into an inland sea, but I wasn't about to argue with the powerful magic - maker.

Not exact matches

Those who master the art can convince others to help them move mountains.

I will be a woman who slowly and over time and alongside of many others will make that mountain move.

Let us RISE to the questions of our time.Let us SPEAK to the injustices in our world.Let us MOVE the mountains of fear and intimidation.Let us SHOUT down the walls that separate and divide.Let us FILL the earth with the fragrance of Love.Let us be women who Love.

I have decided that, rather than be someone who denies the existence of the mountain entirely — whatever that represents in the moment — or simply gives up in despair, that I will be a woman who picks up small stones and moves them.

In his contemporary novel The Blue Mountains of China, Rudy Wiebe tells the story of Mennonites who moved from Germany to Russia, China, Canada, and South America — modern pilgrims in search of religious freedom.

And thanks be to God for men and women who pick up the stones, one after another, until the mountain moves.

Know anyone who can move a mountain?

The guests move in from the lakes, the golf courses and the mountain paths and wander through the corridors in their yakata — the cotton kimonos supplied by the management and worn by all who stay there.

You don't move mountains on forums, but at the same time is it so hard to have a conversation and exchange of views about a common interest with people who can do better than bury their heads in the sand and blame luck, karma, star sign alignment?

She would almost literally move mountains to please the man who loves her.

«Collectively, as a community, I think we've moved mountains,» said Cheryll Moore, medical care administrator for Erie County who supervises Narcan training and supports the task force's other work.

«The worker shouldn't have to move mountains to get paid,» said Cathy Ruckelshaus, the group's legal co-director who worked on the survey.

Spanish winemakers who have grown in the same spot for generations are moving into the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains.

About 39 percent, or 28 people, who moved away slowly when approached by a mountain lion escaped without injury.

Ongoing research by Frachetti and colleagues at Washington University contends that the seeds of early domestic crops gradually spread to new areas along this Inner Asian Mountain Corridor through social networks formed by ancient nomadic groups — who met as they moved herds to seasonal pastures.

But prepping for her turn as Acres in John Wick: Chapter 2 (out in February) called for compound moves — like a full - body combo of mountain climbers, scissors, and frogs — to spike the heart rate and incinerate fat, explains Patrick Murphy, who trained her for the role.

We'll never get anywhere if we think we can't, but I'll always put my money on the person who sets out to move mountains and actually believes he / she can.

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You call Ang Lee, the Oscar - winning director of Brokeback Mountain, who turns the book into a magnificent and moving film.

It is of the dreamer in all of us, the guy who believes with such a passion that he makes mountains move.

Although he and Hunter, who met in a poetry class when they were both living in Boston, moved to Boulder for the mountains and good schools for their two young daughters, the city turned out to be fertile ground for a couple thinking of starting a risky venture as their full - time paycheck.

As it's been explained to us, the Outlander has followed the life stages of the people at Mitsubishi, who, it seems, have moved on from mountain bikes to home ownership.

The narrators are a member of a doomsday cult who releases poison gas in a subway in Tokyo, and details his retreat to Okinawa and a small nearby island, Kume - jima; a jazz aficionado who works as a sales clerk in a Tokyo music store; a lawyer in a financial institution in Hong Kong who has been moving large sums of money from a certain account; a woman who owns a Tea Shack on China's Holy Mountain and speaks to a tree; a non-corporeal sentient entity which is searching for who or what it is; a gallery attendant in Petersburg who is involved in an art theft scam; a ghostwriter / drummer living in London who saves a woman from being run over by a taxi; an Irish nuclear physicist who quits her job when she finds her research is being used for military purposes; and a late night radio talkback DJ who finds himself fielding calls from an intriguing caller referring to himself as the zookeeper.

When Mountains Move by Julie Cantrell, the second novel from an author who took Christian fiction by storm with her debut (you can read my review here)

He moves to the Blue Ridge Mountains which he adores and fell in love with the new widow in the neighborhood who has an adopted child who turns out to be a vampire.

This moving tale follows two young friends trapped in the Cévennes Mountains who turn to trading stories from their pasts in order to keep up morale and their will to live.

There is no such thing as «be patient and move on to writing the next book,» and it is irresponsible for a person who has already made it over the mountain to give advice on what it's going to be like for you to climb it.

Who would have thought that a sniffing husky could move mountains?

Mountain View, CA About Blog A baseball blog written by a Fighters fangirl who just moved back to the US after several years in Japan.

Mountain View, CA About Blog A baseball blog written by a Fighters fangirl who just moved back to the US after several years in Japan.

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BF: Well, times are different, and I have given enough interviews now that I think people would have a pretty good idea of who I was and what I was trying to do, if I suddenly broke contact and moved to the mountains.

Even more than this, Noland enjoyed having Americans claiming him as the successor to the mantle of Matisse, but in truth he had more in common with the Bauhaus abstractionist Josef Albers, who moved to the US and taught Noland at Black Mountain college, North Carolina.

Unlike Francis Alÿs» workers, who were moving mountains in the desert by shovelling sand, Thurston's underpaid writers are moving (one spadeful at a time) Robert Smithson's heap of language from one place to another, leaving us with language to be looked at / things to be read.»

As a teacher at Black Mountain College and a pioneer of Abstraction, Albers discussed these notions with his students, who happened to also be writers thinking about how to redefine language with a sociopolitical purpose, to push the boundaries of the classical, and to move into postwar experimentation.

Josef Albers, who had served as the chair of the design department at Yale, after the artists had moved from Black Mountain to Connecticut, in 1949, had predeceased her in 1976.

With so many moving parts and memorable moments, we'd love to share a brief overview and acknowledge everyone who contributed to our mission to preserve the history and continue the legacy of Black Mountain College!

With volume five, and a cover by Los Angeles artist John Altoon, a friend of Creeley's who had been introduced by Black Mountain student Fielding Dawson, the magazine moves toward a more abstract expressionist type of graphic design.

The freedom that Dolla claimed in the 1970s came at a price: very few people knew what to do with this artist who could move from finger - painted monochromes to land - art (large colored dots on beaches and snow - capped mountains) to tiny fishing - lure sculptures, to large sulfurous paintings made with smoking tapers, to hilarious combine paintings that featured window shutters, to labyrinthine installations created with yards of unrolled muslin fabric.

Q. Moving from a world of 6.7 billion who are 85 percent dependent on fossil fuels to one of some 9 billion or so nearly free of emissions from burning these fuels in two generations is just about as huge a mountain to climb as anyone could imagine.

And as for other examples of peer - review failure a la Hockey Stick, well, gee, off the top of my head: — Steig and his stupid West Antarctica - on - fire nonsense, — Marcott et al and their ridiculous hockey - stick - in - oz guff — Camille Parmesan and her nonsense about butterflies moving down a mountain or up it, who cares.

«Every birth is an important step towards achieving our vision to see the mountain gorillas move from being one of the the world's most endangered species to being some of the world's most protected animals,» said CEO of Rwandan Development Board John Gara, who gave the opening remarks.

O'Gorman and Gardiner both moved onto other government jobs after the Trans Mountain project was approved, along with several other public servants who worked on the file.

We did hear a few stories from people who did similar things — someone got a new job in Mountain View and had kids in high school in Colorado that he didn't want to move, for example — but we haven't been able to confirm any of those stories.

Even if ditch everything you know and love in New York City, vacant the state, and move to northern Maine to live as a mountain folk who hunts lobsters, «they» will find you.