Free Rein Quotes

#1. Sa help us all, but I plan to give her free rein and let her be as unpleasant and bitchy as only she knows how.

Robin Hobb

#2. Materialism and consumerism are merely emergent properties of our neurobiology given free rein in a free market.

Piers Steel

#3. Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings

Jocelyn Murray

#4. Caesar gives his legions free rein to chase women and gamble when they are off duty. "My men fight just as well when they are stinking of perfume," he says.

Anonymous

#5. I discovered that we liked each other. But I was fearful of giving free rein to my emotions. Fearful that all those emotions and longings I suppressed would spill forth, rendering me bitter and cruel.

Jacqueline Carey

#6. Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release

John Moulder Wilson

#7. Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'

Bill Bowerman

#8. In climbing, sponsors typically support an athlete but provide very little direction, giving the climber free rein to follow his or her passion toward whatever is inspiring. It's a wonderful freedom, in many ways similar to that of an artist who simply lives his life and creates whatever moves him.

Alex Honnold

#9. I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

Leni Riefenstahl

#10. Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

Elie Wiesel

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

Roger Ross Williams

#12. Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

Albert Camus

#13. Existed in the eternal dilemma: to give freedom free rein, or to rein freedom in?

Jussi Adler-Olsen

#14. But we don't always have to be studying something, I thought, it's perfectly enough merely to think, to do nothing but think and give our thoughts free rein. To give in to our philosophical worldview, simply submit to our philosophical worldview, but that's the hardest thing, I thought. Wertheimer

Thomas Bernhard

#15. It is Cameron's cabinet of millionaires who are the real spongers given free rein to live out their Thatcherite fantasies at the expense of ordinary, decent communities throughout these islands.

Martin McGuinness

#16. The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Lucian Freud

#17. Even if Christians are completely surrounded by sin, they should still fight against it. Some people think they're Christians because they've been baptized. These people give their desires free rein and don't care about conquering their sins. They merely follow their own cravings.

Martin Luther

#18. Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

Karl Kraus

#19. Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

Jonathan Shapiro

#20. Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.

Rose Tremain

#21. You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

John Lennon

#22. A woman liked a free rein to walk all over a man's life; the best thing a man could do was pick a woman who walked carefully.

-Jack

Claudia Dain

#23. I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself ... My ideas are my harlots.

Denis Diderot

#24. We feel fighting for dominance actually shows weakness. It's much harder to hold back the wolf than to let it have free rein.

Jazz Feylynn

#25. Kennedy's immigration law was enacted during the magical post-1964 period, when Congress had free rein to push through the craziest left-wing legislation since the New Deal. It was the most destructive period in American history.

Ann Coulter

#26. Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.

Ole Hallesby

#27. Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.

James Frain

#28. I've always let my imagination run free, but now I try to rein it in. Things never turn out the way I imagine, so I am letting them rest. Instead, I am holding just what is in my hand.

Anna White

#29. 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

#30. With flowing tail and flying mane,
Wide nostrils never stretched by pain,
Mouth bloodless to bit or rein,
And feet that iron never shod,
And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod,
A thousand horses - the wild - the free -
Like waves that follow o'er the sea,
Came thickly thundering on.

Lord Byron

#31. It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.

Ron Paul