Top 100 Leash Quotes
#1. Never let your fiend off his leash unless there's lots of room to run (and no people around).
MaryJanice Davidson
#3. As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.
Francois Fenelon
#4. We're on a tight leash. We gotta do things by the book so no shooting yourself or trying to blow me up this time."
"I thought we agreed that we weren't gonna talk about that anymore.
S.L.J. Shortt
#5. I have a feeling we're mooning a mean junkyard dog, all brave and laughing - until the dog's leash breaks
Kevin J. Anderson
#6. Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.
Marshall Fritz
#7. Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!
Ezra Pound
#8. The gun was in Mrs. Jones's left hand. She put her right hand behind her, between my legs, then held on to my cock like it was a leash.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#9. Girl you are a beauty. Well, I am a beast. They must have been trippin to let me off the leash.
Jeremih
#10. My mind, which I used to consider a great ally, has turned into a sparrow on a leash.
Dessa
#11. You know what my boss says? He says that skepticism is a good watchdog if you know when to take the leash off.
Rex Stout
#13. 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
#14. Although my elephant is different than yours. Mine's bright purple and I like to lead him around on a leash and introduce him to people by name.
Suzanne Brockmann
#15. Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh.
Kurt Vonnegut
#16. He believes that this man has looped a bit of the thread-leash through a corner of his soul.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#17. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.
Robert Jordan
#18. Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
Bob Goff
#19. I saw white figures. Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body.
H.G.Wells
#20. He'd rather have anyone but you. He's not going to give you more than an inch in any direction. So good luck with your short leash.
Veronica Roth
#21. Alright next question: I saw someone walking a guinea pig on a leash down Main Street of the town I live in Is this normal behavior I should copy?" "Oh gosh. No. Tell them NO!
K.M. Shea
#22. There is nothing I would not do for you. I would let you walk on my naked body with those wicked heels I would trail behind you on a leash or on my knees, if that's what you wanted.
Nancy Gideon
#23. Fear is a Dangerous Animal.
Best kept on a short leash ...
William Curtis
#24. Taming Preppy would be like trying to put a leash on the wind. However,
T.M. Frazier
#25. At the essential landscape stare, stare
Till your eyes foist a vision dazzling on the wind:
Whatever lost ghosts flare,
Damned, howling in their shrouds across the moor
Rave on the leash of the starving mind
Which peoples the bare room, the blank, untenanted air.
Sylvia Plath
#26. As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.
James Bovard
#27. I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
John Lydon
#28. A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
Langston Hughes
#29. Maven lies as easily as he breathes, and his mother holds his leash but not his heart.
Victoria Aveyard
#30. Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena's recital. But she stunned him by eagerly waiting for him just like old times - on her knees wearing only a collar and a leash.
S.B. Redd
#31. Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.
Immanuel Kant
#32. We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#33. I have something for you, Midnight."
She closed her eyes, not looking at him. "What now? A leash perhaps?
Beth Mikell
#34. But grace has no leash. It's untamed, unbound, and runs wild and free.
Preston Sprinkle
#35. We have to figure this out, Jackson, so leash the lust."
His chin went up as he stared down at her. "Woman, you ask the impossible."
"Do it anyway!
Lori Foster
#36. A pockmarked boy with a scraggy ponytail and four tiny rings in his right ear leaned against the wall of the armory, holding his dog on a leash, a sign hanging from his neck: PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PET MY DOG. IT MAY MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER.
Jay McInerney
#38. Leash the anger on purpose.
Unleash it when falling apart.
Toba Beta
#39. The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without a tombstone. Where before, she sat most times in his home, licking her wounds.
Anthony Liccione
#40. I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.
Harold Pinter
#41. Best not to take, yet doubt its strength,
A leash with Demons at its length.
McKenzie Bodkin
#43. Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.
Alan Cohen
#44. 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
#45. Post-traumatic shock, phooey. Seemed to me the trauma was trotting right along with me, like a dog on a leash with its owner. I was the dog. I
Robin McKinley
#46. 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
#47. 'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
R. Kelly
#48. Dog owners are out in all kinds of weather. They tell you it's small payment for the love their dogs bear them. Some love. If that dog weren't on a leash, he'd be off after another dog, a cat, or any stranger walking along the street with a wet bag of meat.
Selma Diamond
#49. His mate is the light that keeps that darkness at bay. She fills the hole that has been growing ever larger in his soul. When the bond is completed between mates, their very souls merge and the male will be able to leash the darker part of his nature and at last be at peace with his wolf.
Quinn Loftis
#50. 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
#51. I apologise for my behaviour lately. I haven't ... been myself."
Or she'd just been a part of herself that she usually kept on a tight, tight leash, he thought. But he said, "I understand."
And from the way her eyes softened, he knew that was all he'd ever needed to say.
Sarah J. Maas
#52. Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#53. You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.
Michael Parenti
#54. God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine.
John Piper
#55. You the Dark-Hunter?"
Kyrian arched a brow. "You the flunky?"
"I don't like your tone."
"And I dont't like you. Now that we've dispensed with the introductions and have declared our mutual distaste for one another, why don't you take me to the one who holds your leash?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#56. Everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.
Harry Crews
#57. Most dogs, when you hold a leash up, go nuts and run to the door. Crash, on the other hand barely looks up from his spot on the couch. His expression is saying, What the hell are you doing with that thing?
David Rosenfelt
#58. Is there anything else you need to tell me?"
Every time I look at you, I have to put a leash on myself. "No.
Ilona Andrews
#59. You're kind of cute," he said with a handsome smirk. "If I had a tail, I'd wag it." "Leave my friend alone, Denver," Lexi scolded. "I don't wear a leash," he replied.
Dannika Dark
#60. Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it wishes.
Evan Sutter
#61. Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around the neck? A noose? What's 'morality' but what other people want you to do, for their own, selfish, unstated purposes?
Joyce Carol Oates
#62. Some women feel loved if you do the dishes without being reminded; some men feel loved if you'll play a video game with them, others if you buy them a collar and a nice leash and occasionally lead them around by it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#63. If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.
Michael Shannon
#64. The struggle to keep aroused emotions within proper boundaries is won by putting a conscious leash on them and leading them like junkyard dogs right to the throne of grace
Jim Andrews
#65. But I am not sick, or crazy, or broken.
I am Meda Melange, demon-saint monster girl. I make full-grown men scream in terror. I break bones and drain blood. I turn nightmares into reality.
I am the most powerful creature on earth. I do not wear a leash.
Eliza Crewe
#66. My dad worked nights mostly and while we were growing up, and my mother also worked, so there were times where, when it was just the two of us at home, and, you know, they gave us a pretty long leash, actually.
Scott Kelly
#67. Casper, she said someone has to hold your leash.
The dog barked.
Then he dipped his head, picked up the end of the leash in his mouth, and trotted after his master.
Brigid Kemmerer
#68. Law is all that separates us from barbarism and the howling within; it is a necessary leash on our darker natures.
Kevin Hearne
#69. If they'd been dogs, they would have all been in the yard eating grass and trying to yak up whatever was making them feel so lousy. Not a bone gnawed, not a ball chased-all tails went unwagged. Oh, life is a fast cat, a short leash, a flea in that place where you just can't scratch.
Christopher Moore
#71. Planning to stay on your leash, wolf? Or would you rather let loose?
Franca Storm
#72. Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.
James Bovard
#74. Since I'm presuming you don't mean you finally bought him a leash, let me say simply that there is a big difference between allowing an animal to ravage you and allowing yourself to be ravaged. One is common. The other is art. It is planned. Crafted, even. Only capable of being done by a master.
Richelle Mead
#75. The leash snaps loose and trails after the little white dog like a kite streamer; then the knot closes, sealing shut. In seconds, an instant, there's no dog, no leash. No sound in the air.
Then Marcus says, 'The tree just ate the dead dog.'
'Yes,' says Jose. 'So it seems.
Veronica Rossi
#76. Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
#77. He has a gentle voice and a quiet manner, but behind his twinkling blue eyes there lurks a capacity for furious wrath and implacable resolution, the more dangerous because they are held in leash.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#78. It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you'll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn't want and walking (or carrying) a tiny, totally enchanting little dog on a rhinestone-studded pink leash.
Danielle Steel
#79. Satan prowls but he's a lion on a leash
Ann Voskamp
#80. What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
Adyashanti
#81. The dog - Beverly - looked up at me with warm, trusting brown eyes. I was a human. I had her leash, and I knew her name. Clearly, I was going to make everything okay. It must be nice to be a dog.
Mira Grant
#82. He took a step closer, his breath falling on my face. "You can do whatever the fuck you want. You have a long leash.
L.J. Shen
#83. Biology keeps culture on a leash, which is why you can't teach a dog to play poker, never mind all those lying paintings.
Gregory Cochran
#84. I'm in a band, and I know exactly who those girls are. I know exactly what goes on backstage. I wish I had a little leash to walk him around.
Gwen Stefani
#85. I mean, that was the code, wasn't it? Single girls and taken guys weren't allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.
Carrie Butler
#86. Each of us promenades his thought, like a monkey on a leash. When you read, you always have to such monkeys: your own and one belonging to someone else. Or, even worse, a monkey and a hyena. Now, consider what you will feed them. For a hyena does not eat the same things as a monkey ...
Milorad Pavic
#87. Johnny pats his son on the back like the owner of a violent dog trying to keep it on a leash.
Bijou Hunter
#88. I love a man who doesn't let go of the leash, even when it leads him to ruin.
David Levithan
#89. I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
Kai Ryssdal
#90. People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.
Michael Parenti
#91. Killing me still on the agenda, tough girl?"
I walked over to the desk. "Yup, right here next to buy Brendan a leash."
"Glad to know you have a sense of humour."
"I wasn't joking." I mumbled, knowing he would be able to hear me.
Elizabeth Morgan
#92. Nothing saddens me more than seeing how quickly the dog grows used to its leash.
Marty Rubin
#93. Patty Flood and her good mood were starting to get on my nerves. Her mood was so good it was almost a physical thing, a monkey on a leash that she let leap all over the furniture, delighting only its owner.
Elizabeth McCracken
#95. I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.
Augusten Burroughs
#96. Stiles doesn't even know how short of a leash he's on, because he never even tests it.
1001cranes
#98. I want to be his love slave. An image of me in a black corset wearing a collar with a leash attached to it pops into my head. Maybe stupid Lydia was right to cut the smut from the book club for a while.
Helena Hunting
#99. There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.
Donald McCaig
#100. Her professional conscience is a collar. I hold the leash.
David Mitchell
