Off Leash Quotes

#1. There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.

Donald McCaig

#2. Leash the anger on purpose.
Unleash it when falling apart.

Toba Beta

#3. I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

John Lydon

#4. 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

#5. Maven lies as easily as he breathes, and his mother holds his leash but not his heart.

Victoria Aveyard

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I have something for you, Midnight."
She closed her eyes, not looking at him. "What now? A leash perhaps?

Beth Mikell

#10. But grace has no leash. It's untamed, unbound, and runs wild and free.

Preston Sprinkle

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Tugging on his chain, I reminded him, "Leash the beast for now.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

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

James Bovard

#15. 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

#16. I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.

Harold Pinter

#17. Best not to take, yet doubt its strength,
A leash with Demons at its length.

McKenzie Bodkin

#18. I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

Beverly Cleary

#19. Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

Alan Cohen

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. That's what any decent mind ought to do for its owner when she lets it off the leash - just go bounding away into the long grass and bring back a really profound thought, laying it at her feet all furry and palpitating. C'mon now. Hey los'!

Jan Struther

#24. You cast another bewildered look at the books around you (or, rather: it was the books that looked at you, with the bewildered gaze of dogs who, from their cages in the city pound, see a former companion go off on the leash of his master, come to rescue him)

Italo Calvino

#25. I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy
old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#26. You keep life on a short leash."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You're scared of what you can't control.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#27. He who restrains his tongue has a leash on his enemy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. Never let your fiend off his leash unless there's lots of room to run (and no people around).

MaryJanice Davidson

#29. A long leash is not freedom.

Marty Rubin

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. I have a feeling we're mooning a mean junkyard dog, all brave and laughing - until the dog's leash breaks

Kevin J. Anderson

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Girl you are a beauty. Well, I am a beast. They must have been trippin to let me off the leash.

Jeremih

#37. My mind, which I used to consider a great ally, has turned into a sparrow on a leash.

Dessa

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. He believes that this man has looped a bit of the thread-leash through a corner of his soul.

Diana Abu-Jaber

#44. 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

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

Bob Goff

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. Fear is a Dangerous Animal.
Best kept on a short leash ...

William Curtis