Reins Quotes - Page 6

• I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

  Willie Nelson

  Thinking, Guy, I've Learned

  "Willie Nelson: What I've Learned" by Robert Huber, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I need to rein myself in sometimes.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Needs, Sometimes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

  Anna Quindlen

  Ignorant, Speech, Reason Why

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• The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Thinking, People

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• As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

  Tim Scott

  Loud, Spending, Clear

  "Interview with Congressman-Elect Tim Scott". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Years, Design, Wish

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• love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Heart, Love Is, Rocks

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• If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein; If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Queens, Kings, Pain

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

  Barbara Mertz

  Emotion, Excellent, Method

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• Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

  Dean Koontz

  Darkness, Reign, Worst

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Strange Highways”, p.174, Hachette UK

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• Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away. Umber sniffed. "One of his lesser poems. Come, Hap.

  P.W. Catanese

  Arrows, Noses, Bows

  P. W. Catanese (2010). “Dragon Games”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, I can never get enough," he said. "Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when - " The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of the shirt, and hauled him inside. The door banged shut after him, and Thomas, sitting bolt upright, seized reins of the horses. A moment later the carriage had lurched forth into the night, leaving Gabriel staring, infuriated, after it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Horse, Night, Doors

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Thinking, Running Away

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.465, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.

  J.R. Ward

  Horse, White, Pay

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.356, Penguin

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• "You’re a stubborn, ill-trained horse.” she said. The horse snorted and walked towards the North Road of his own volition. ”Hey!” Karigan pulled back on the reins. “Whoa. Who do you think is in charge here?"

  Kristen Britain

  Horse, Thinking, Hey

  "Green Rider". Book by Kristen Britain, November, 1998.

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• Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Adversity, Rights, Self

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• Beloved youth, you will have your trials and temptations through which you must pass, but there are great moments of eternity which lie ahead. You have our love and our confidence. We pray that you will be prepared for the reins of leadership. We say to you, "Arise and shine forth" and be a light unto the world, a standard to others.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Leadership, Lying, Light

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• I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending.

  Michele Bachmann

  Government, Earthquakes, People

  "Bachmann: Hurricane Irene Was Message From God" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. August 29, 2011.

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• I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.

  Maxine Kumin

  Women, Home, Light

  Maxine Kumin (1987). “In deep: country essays”, Viking Pr

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• It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

  Garth Brooks

  Pain, Joy, Rope

  Song: Rodeo, 1991

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• The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

  Abigail Adams

  Government, Long, People

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.81

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• American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.

  Roger Ross Williams

  School, Uganda, Parliament

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• Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Running, Horse, Stupid

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.513, Open Road Media

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• Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.

  Grace Kelly

  Daughter, Horse, Teenage

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• Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

  Statius

  Anger, Passion, Giving

  "Thebaid" by Statius, translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey in "Loeb Classical Library", Vol. 207, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.

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