#lea

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#growing up #irish #learn #made #now

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. ↗

— Frank Yerby

#above #almost #broadened #continent #fifteen

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky. ↗

— Serena Williams

#body #doing #fit #get #i

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#big #choice #control #destiny #does

Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks. ↗

— John Yoo

#armed #armed forces #article #attacks #civilian

From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#also #building #certain #certain extent #chronology

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#effectual #i #know #lead #means

We had a pretty good lead, so why push it. ↗

— David Wells

#had #lead #pretty #pretty good #push

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#loser #path #resistance

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. ↗