Leashes Quotes

• Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?

  Robert Breault

  Dog, Wonder, Ends

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• All you have is your fire
  And the place you need to reach
  Don't you ever tame your demons
  But always keep them on a leash

  Hozier

  Fire, Needs, Demon

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• People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

  Michael Parenti

  Thinking, People, World

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• Hope is the leash of submission.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Submission

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.133, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• We live on the leash of our senses.

  Diane Ackerman

  Philosophy, Medicine, Perception

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.18, Vintage

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• Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash

  Ann Voskamp

  Lions, Satan

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• It is so true that in liquid modernity freedom was, so to speak, let off the leash, and for a quite a number of years the freedom of choice was "in principle" unlimited. One result was the weakening of inter-human bonds, particularly inherited bonds, and the counterfactual assumption that individuals must and can fend for themselves.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Years, Numbers, Choices

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• In a free society, the “vision thing” is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a “visionary” bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government [...] the poorer and less free the people.

  Ilana Mercer

  Government, People, Vision

  "His Rhetoric, Our Reality". original.antiwar.com. January 26, 2005.

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• You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Book, Sight

  Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.11, Penguin

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• Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.

  Bob Goff

  Joy, Cynicism, Posing

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jan 06, 2014

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• I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.

  Ilona Andrews

  Discovery, Discipline, Needs

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.233, Penguin

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• An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.

  Diane Ackerman

  Dog, Sleep, Animal

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.329, Vintage

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• I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.

  Gregory Maguire

  Hate, Trouble, Scarecrow

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Son of a Witch: Volume Two in The Wicked Years”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

  James Bovard

  Years, Faces, Momentum

  "An Interview with James Bovard". "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org. January 25, 2006.

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• What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Mean

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin

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• We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

  Diane Ackerman

  Music, Silence, Listening

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• You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.

  Michael Parenti

  Knows, Peg, Ifs

  "'You Say What You Like, Because They Like What You Say" by David Cromwell, medialens.org. May 13, 2013.

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• We humans are in such a strange position—we are still animals whose behavior reflects that of our ancestors, yet we are unique—unlike any other animal on earth. Our distinctiveness separates us and makes it easy to forget where we came from. Perhaps dogs help us remember the depth of our roots, reminding us—the animals at the other end of the leash—that we may be special, but we are not alone. No wonder we call them our best friends.

  Patricia McConnell

  Dog, Animal, Unique

  Patricia McConnell, Ph.D. (2009). “The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs”, p.225, Ballantine Books

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• I saw...a kid on a leash. You seen these people? Kid on a leash? How horrible. Put him in the pound where he belongs.

  Bill Hicks

  Kids, People, Saws

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• Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The leash of her hounds of damnation; Ye who remembered the Alamo, Remember the Maine!

  Richard Hovey

  War, Maine, Ships

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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• As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.

  James Bovard

  Government, People, Reins

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.270, Macmillan

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• I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically - the unleashed id - but with a biological cause; I'm hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances.

  Benjamin Percy

  Regret, Thinking, Alcohol

  "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Ask a glass of water why it pities
  the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.

  Terrance Hayes

  Dog, Rain, Glasses

  Terrance Hayes (2010). “Lighthead”, p.14, Penguin

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• Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at WWE I was under a tight leash. I think it had a lot to do with The Rock making the transition, and me possibly being the next guy - you know, the company didnt want to lose another top performer.

  Kurt Angle

  Wrestling, Thinking, Wwe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

  Agnes Repplier

  Knowledge, Learning, Charming

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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