Leyton Quotes

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But how to soothe souls inflamed by the intense torment imposed first by childhood experiences almost too sordid to believe and then, with mechanical repetition, by the sufferers themselves? And how to offer them comfort when their suffering is made worse every day by social ostracism—by what the scholar and writer Elliot Leyton has described as “the bland, racist, sexist, and ‘classist’ prejudices buried in Canadian society: an institutionalized contempt for the poor, for sex-trade workers, for drug addicts and alcoholics, for aboriginal people.
Gabor Maté (In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction)
A year before Wenger’s appointment, Leyton Orient manager John Sitton had been the subject of a Channel 4 documentary that recorded him threatening to fight his own players in a famously bizarre dressing-room outburst. ‘When I tell you to do something, do it, and if you come back at me, we’ll have a fucking right sort-out in here,’ he roared at two players. ‘All right? And you can pair up if you like, and you can fucking pick someone else to help you, and you can bring your fucking dinner, ’coz by the time I’ve finished with you, you’ll fucking need it.’ That was the 1990s football manager.
Michael Cox (The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines)
Yet if I am not mistaken we are likely to be there well before Lord Leyton - well before even your little squadron...' 'What the Devil do you mean by my little squadron? It is a perfectly normal squadron, rather large than otherwise. Two ships of the line apart from Suffolk: a fifty-gun ship, two considerable sloops of war . . .' 'Hush, hush, Jack. Never fly into a passion, soul,' cried Stephen, seeing that his friend was seriously annoyed. 'Sure you must know after all this time that we use little as an endearment - a meliorative term, as one says my little Puss to a handsome Amazon that weighs fifteen stone in her shift.
Patrick O'Brian (The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Aubrey & Maturin, #21))
I don’t know if I wanted to buy the English soccer team Leyton Orient Football Club (LOFC) because I loved it so much or because I was so distressed by how it was being managed
Nigel Travis (The Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback)
For me, it is and has always been Leyton Orient. I can trace the roots of my passion to 1959, the year I went mad for football. I played, not very well, at my school, Buckhurst Hill County High.
Nigel Travis (The Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback)
Kent Teague, without whom we could not have saved Leyton Orient.
Nigel Travis (The Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback)
Leyton Orient Football Club (LOFC) acquisition and revitalization of, 81–82 assembling the management team and board of directors, 168–169 authoritarian culture, 157–158 engaging in dialogue, 118 English Football League system, 159–160 the history of, 158–159 long-term management planning, 166–167 overcommunication after the purchase of, 204–205 public criticism of management, 166 relegation, 163–164 sale and resale of, 160–168 team building after the acquisition, 212
Nigel Travis (The Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback)
1990. “LIFE REVOLVES.” © We’re a product of changes Life was created by changes Leaves a mother’s womb For a changing world Leave the world of change Into earth’s womb Came from mother womb Returns dead to mother earth Woman and man create us. Then we create a family. Life begins at the first breath Loose the last breath at death. Lived first with a mother Then lives with a woman As lover, wife and mother. Trained by our parents Then teach our children. Life continues revolving
Leyton Franklin Bfa Hons (POETRY: ME BRAIN OPEN-UP)
You have taught me that vulnerability is all. It is where everything stunning and worthwhile happens.
Katherine Leyton (Motherlike)
Everything is pink and blue balloons, baby bumps, and fun Instagram announcements. I hate this cuteness. It glosses over the profound physical and psychic risks, trespasses, and burdens I’m taking on by carrying you.
Katherine Leyton (Motherlike)
We’re shapeshifters, women—beasts, but everyone likes to hush that up.
Katherine Leyton (Motherlike)
Tick, tick, tick—my body just keeps making you. My brain can’t catch up.
Katherine Leyton (Motherlike)
Thus we find the source of our new multiple murderer primarily among the ambitious who failed - or who believed they would fail - and who seek another form of success in the universal celebrity and attention they will receive through their extravagant homicides.
Elliott Leyton (Hunting Humans: Rise of the Multiple Murderer)
graciously held them for her and even convinced her to change into the newer clothes so she could donate her travelling clothes. She disappeared into another room, taking Wisteria with her. “How do I look?” Amanda asked as they re-emerged. She
Bisi Leyton (Wisteria (Wisteria, #1))