Sentences with phrase «write to them at once»

If someone is likely to be your match, you shouldn't wait while they find you but write to them at once.

Not exact matches

«A very high bar is set by using the word «Favorite,»» he wrote in a blog post that suggested several changes to Twitter's interface — including pictures and videos that are double - clickable to heart (à la Instagram), receipts when Tweets have been read, and a «Thank you bomb» feature that enables users with lots of followers to send mass gratitude notifications all at once.

I once heard a line in a movie and I decided to write it on that wall: «Life begins at the end of the comfort zone.»

«My husband and I paid for first class so that we'd have the extra space and could lay down with her — once we were boarded I was getting tons of eye rolls and head shakes from fellow passengers... because my baby was crying (as if I could just look at Ruby and say okay now it's time to stop),» wrote Charnas.

But as George Orwell once wrote: «Whoever is winning at the moment will alway seem to be invincible.»

«It will be difficult for Dollar General to maintain current levels of productivity and profitability as some consumers will probably return to other retail channels once economic conditions improve,» wrote Zoe Tan, an analyst with Morningstar, at the time of the announcement.

I was once thinking about writing a blog post called «Is Reid Hoffman the Kevin Bacon of Silicon Valley» because it seemed that every angel / seed investor I knew looking at deals was shopping their deal to Reid and everybody wanted Reid's opinion before committing.

But once his shares vested last fall, he longed to be back at a smaller company (he started at Google in November 2003 when the company had more than 500 employees) where he could be more of a jack - of - all trades, writing business plans or helping conceive of services like Google Talk.

AAPL saw its stock price climb steadily yesterday in the run - up to the company's announcement of its Q2 earnings (calendar Q1), and once the numbers were known the price jumped sharply in pre-market trading to hit $ 174.21 at the time of writing.

At the time, I wrote that «the chief effect of Wednesday's action and accompanying statement is to once again increase uncertainty in financial markets» (O'Driscoll 2015).

Still, as Warren Buffett once wrote, «It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.»

In addition, any person who could potentially become an activist investor of a Texas - based public company and who solicits money from an investor must, before accepting money and at least once each year, provide written notice to any such prospective investor stating that it could potentially become subject to these rules and a copy of the Texas Act.

As I wrote at the time, I think that we could see a real bubble in biotech in the latter part of this decade, and just once, please God, I want to be at the beginning of a bubble.

In this sense, Kierkegaard is like Plato, who almost never puts himself in his own writing, except once to tell us of his presence (at Socrates» trial) and once to tell us of his absence (at Socrates» death).

They go on to state that there were many anti-Christs, who were present at the time of the writing of their epistle; and they state plainly that these anti-Christs were once among us (were members of their community of faith), but they departed from among them.

Hugh was struggling to support his growing family... And there was I, absolutely stuck in bucology, with the washing machine freezing at least once a week, the kitchen never above 55 degrees when the wind blew from the northwest, not able to write until after my little ones were in bed, by which time I was so tired that I often quite literally fell asleep with my head on the typewriter.»

He once wrote this when asked about building Confederate monuments at Civil War historic sites: «I think it wiser moreover not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavoured to obliterate the marks of civil strife and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered.»

Instead Caldecott, in a lyrical, elevated tone reminiscent of Tolkien's own writing style, goes deep into Tolkien's spiritual vision, showing how this led him to create a work that is illuminated throughout by a faith at once fully orthodox and profoundly personal.

«Then at least,» I wrote at the time, «left to ourselves, we will be able, under the guidance of a new Holy Father (who will, I hope and pray, see it as his aim to complete the work of the pontificate which has just come to such an unexpected end), and with God's help, return in the light of a new Eastertide to the business of building up the Church once more, free of the attentions of the roving media protagonists who so rarely care a jot about what, for a week or so, is currently attracting their fitful attention.»

We had our first three tinies in four years and then four years after that we added one more baby to the mix right at the time when my writing began to reach more people and my husband's career also became more demanding and we have never been so happy and so tired and so everything all at once.

«Caldecott, in a lyrical, elevated tone reminiscent of Tolkien's own writing style, goes deep into Tolkien's spiritual vision, showing how this led him to create a work that is illuminated throughout by a faith at once fully orthodox and profoundly personal»

A sociologist like William Julius Wilson can underline the importance of economic factors, pointing to the precipitous decline in manufacturing, and at the same time write frankly about the destructive influence of ghetto culture which lacks a viable middle class that once served as a «social buffer.

and in the case of Paul, he writes 1 Cor.15: 1 - 3 within 15 years of Jesus» death — a passage which claims the resurrected Jesus appeared to over 500 people at once.

According to the Barna study, the percent of engagement people have with the Bible — from being engaged (reading the Bible at least four times a week), friendly (engaged with the Bible less than four times a week), neutral (read the Bible once a month or less and see the Bible as the inspired word of God, but acknowledge it can have some errors) and skeptical (see the Bible as «just another book of teachings written by men)-- has started to stabilize and return to its normal rates after the rate of skepticism increased by 4 percent to 14 percent and the rate of friendliness dropped 8 percent to 37 percent in 2011.

Maybe the Holy Spirit is at work around the world to bring multiple authors and pastors and theologians to similar ideas about similar things all at once, and so when I read something in someone else's book that sounds a lot like something I have written, but they don't give me credit, it is not that they «borrowed» from me, but because both of us were listening to what the Spirit has been whispering to minds all over the world.

She writes that she and Paul, not thinking at all «in economic, political, or social terms,» once «dared to go to a show» in a Harlem basement.

The invitation to write about «how my mind has changed» is at once challenging and troubling.

Pause at least once a day to write down five things you're grateful for currently.

Since its writing we have been inundated with TV preachers» imaginative contributions — hence the need to look at the matter once more.

So he wrote, «We know that the man we once were has been crucified with Christ for the destruction of the sinful self... ’21 He likened the Christian's immersion under the water at his baptism to the death and burial of Jesus.22 The self must die before a man can rise to new life.

Indeed, they are likely to conclude that we hardly need a philosopher of Anscombe's status to disprove Lewis; for Wilson writes that «any dispassionate reader can at once see many flaws in Lewis's arguments here.»

In a song that is at once poignant and cruel, Bob Dylan wrote one version of John's denial: «You say you're looking for someone who's never weak but always strong / to protect you and defend you whether you are right or wrong, / someone to open each and ev» ry door, but it ain't me, babe... / It ain't me you're looking for.»

Writing at a time when many people were paying attention to the travails of «the Clinton couple of Arkansas,» A. M. Rosenthal, on the Op - Ed page of the New York Times that he once edited, thanked the Clintons for the «gift» of presuming «that Americans have achieved adulthood at last» and delivered himself of this opinion: «I know there are voters who do believe that a President should have what they consider a spotless sexual history.

More than this, he was sensitive to the fact that the writing of philosophy's history can be at once technically competent and narrow He praised the «philosophical greatness achieved in American philosophy, from Peirce to Santayana, but he complained of the cultural chauvinism in failing to recognize it.5 According to Hartshorne, «One might about as easily reach great heights in philosophy without benefit of the work done in modern America as to reach them in physics without using the work of modern Germans» (Creativity 11).

Abu Bekr agreed and at once commissioned one of those who had served as secretary to Mohammed, Zaid by name, to make the collection and put it into written book form.

At the end of a unit on portions of scripture that involve the people of Israel's time of exile, a student once wrote, «The temple was the home of God's «name» and «glory,» although the exile allowed God to move around and be transcendent.»

I poured into those pages my best writing and my best effort to tell a story about Church that is at once honest and hopeful, imaginative and dusted with the earth of everyday life.

He knows that an individual voice will be raised in resistance, but he knows that he is stronger, he knows that for an instant one still can cause men to seem serious, but he knows also that privately they long to laugh with him; he knows that for an instant one can still cause a woman to hold a fan before her eyes when he talks, but he knows that she is laughing behind the fan, that the fan is not absolutely impervious to vision, he knows that one can write on it an invisible inscription, he knows that when a woman strikes at him with her fan it is because she has understood him, he knows without the least danger of deception how laughter sneaks in, and how when once it has taken up its lodging it lies in ambush and waits.

Writing about Humanae Vitae just a month after Pope Paul VI issued it, at which point lots of Catholics, including a goodly number of Jesuits, had popped a cork, the then - superior general asked his fellow Jesuits to assume an attitude of «obedience which is at once loving, firm, open, and truly creative» and «to do everything possible to penetrate, and to help others penetrate, into the thought which may not have been his own previously» - precisely because they were Jesuits, and this is what Jesuits do.

O Book, O Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran, Published by Everyman's Library on a dark day, I lift you from the Earth to which I recently flung you When my wrath grew too mighty for me, I lift you from the Earth, Noticing once more your annoying heft, And thanking God» though such thanks are sinful» That Kahlil Gibran died in New York in 1931 At the age of forty - eight, So that he could write no more words, So that this Book would not be yet larger than it is.

You probably have a list of scriptures (the same ones I once used) for this purpose, but if you look at them honestly they do not mention the Bible, but rather «the law», writings of «men of old», «the Word of God», «this book», «this prophecy», «the scripture» or other specified or unspecified writing (s)-- NOT ONE says «the Bible» or can be reasonably interpreted to refer to the Protestant or Catholic canon WE moderns mean when we talk about «the Bible».

The most celebrated economist of our time, John Maynard Keynes, once wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury that economics had its origin, at least partially, in ethics.

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

Aslan reacts to the innocuous question «why would a Muslim write a book about Jesus» by turning defensive, arrogant, petulant, and condescending all at once.

But once Scripture was no longer being written (we will look at this subject later), the need to figure out how to be Jesus in every new situation did not stop.

Once in 1535 away from home he wrote to his wife about some bad beer he had drunk «which did not agree with me, so that I had to sing... I said to myself what good wine and beer I have at home, and also what a pretty lady, or lord.»

In the writing of American religious history, a few once - lonely seniors like Timothy L. Smith have been joined by a younger group that shines: Harry Stout at Yale, Grant Wacker at North Carolina, Nathan Hatch at Notre Dame, Mark Noll and Joel Carpenter at Wheaton, George Marsden at Duke are only the first that come to mind.

The task of a non-Muslim scholar writing about Islam is that of constructing an exposition that will do justice to the Western academic tradition, by growing directly out of the objective evidence and by being rationally coherent both within itself and with all other knowledge, and at the same time will do justice to the faith in men's hearts by commanding their assent once it is formulated.

And he had to write in similar vein to his friend Christoph Scheurl, once the Dean Of Law at Wittenberg and now a leading humanist at Nuremberg, to whom Staupitz had shown the book.

The key question facing Protestants, he once wrote, is «whether the original Catholic doctrine concerning the Church, as it stood in universal authority through all ages before the Reformation, is to be received and held still as a necessary part of the Christian faith, or deliberately rejected and refused as an error dangerous to men's souls at war with the Bible?»