#lea

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me. ↗

— Toby Young

#column #fired #firing #first #got

I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone. ↗

— William P. Young

#christianity #damages #disciplines #distant #divides

You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out. ↗

— Jack Youngblood

#because #best #gonna #joke #kid

The world may believe as it pleases. ↗

— Cole Younger

#may #pleases #world

I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys. ↗

— Robin Yount

#also #early #even #ever #frank

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#how #learned #live #manner #perfectly

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#british #british columbia #columbia #going #i

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#detroit #far #franchise #great #honor

If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless. ↗

— Jody Watley

#business #fearless #i #learned #you

Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#barrel #could #easily #global #hearts