Quotes About Reins

#1. My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us.

Michael K. Williams

#2. I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.

Joe Manchin

#3. Adivce from a horse
Take life's hurdels in stride.
Loosen the reins.
Be free sprited.
Keep the burrs from under your saddle.
Carry your friends when they need it.
Keep stable.
Gallop to greatness.

Ilan Shamir

#4. Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#5. To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.

Erin Wasson

#6. It's nice to be able to let go of the reins sometimes and know that somebody you really trust is gonna pick them up as soon as you do.

Georgia Nott

#7. A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Augustus Hare

#8. He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."

Walter Scott

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I thought I knew this world. I thought I could control it. But just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away from you.

Jodi Picoult

#12. If passion drives you,
let mathematical functioning
hold the reins.

As an eye is meant to see things,
a soul is here for its own joy.

Memorize the formulas and
apply them to life.
Passion is energy.

Anisa Claire West

#13. You need to play to your strengths as a couple. Sharing is really awesome when you're messing around with Play-Doh in kindergarten. It's less awesome when you're adults and one of you is good at something and the other person sucks at it. So just let the more skilled person take the reins.

Peter Scott

#14. It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#15. most men rather need the spur, than the reins

John Flavel

#16. You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.

Sojourner Truth

#17. God does not discipline us to subdue us but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness. In His wisdom, He knows that an uncontrolled life is an unhappy life, so He puts reins on our wayward souls that they may be directed into the paths of righteousness.

Billy Graham

#18. If you surrender your free will, then someone is bound to take the reins and lead you to a place that is not of your own true desire.

Steven Redhead

#19. When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.

Bryant McGill

#20. I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.

Lynn Coady

#21. She believed that it was important to put trust in children, to hand over the reins to them from time to time, to let them decide things for themselves.

Michael Chabon

#22. Even though many of us are working very hard at it, we rarely, if ever, experience the joy and peace that are promised in the Bible. So what's the problem? Perhaps we are still holding the reins of our lives too tightly, afraid to surrender ourselves to God's Spirit.

Ann Spangler

#23. I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

Abraham Lincoln

#24. Chance dug deep into the dirt, his front end rising like a speed boat accelerating through water. I grabbed the saddle horn, surprised by his enthusiasm, but I was just as anxious to run as he was. I gave him the reins to go.

Brittney Joy

#25. She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.

Kristin Hannah

#26. The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.

George Monbiot

#27. Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.

Anne Tyler

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

James Bovard

#29. Love is the key. Joy is love singing. Peace is love resting. Patience is love enduring. Kindness is love's truth. Goodness is love's character. Faithfulness is love's habit. Gentleness is love's self-forgetfulness. Self-control is being the reins

Donald Grey Barnhouse

#30. Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call the enjoyer.

Albert Pike

#31. When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

Christina Aguilera

#32. She must continue to live life one day at a time. Neither the past nor the future existed for Eva.
She clenched her fist around her reins, drilling in the words she must never forget: 'there can only be the now.

Amy Jarecki

#33. There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

Katie Aselton

#34. If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordionlike quality.

William O. Douglas

#35. Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.

Edward Frenkel

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

Garth Brooks

#37. 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

#38. I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.

Ricky Schroder

#39. I'll say this one more time. I will be gentle. I will be slow. But you don't have the reins.

Joey W. Hill

#40. Nestor beckoned to me and I dismounted with care.I handed the reins to the boy with thanks. I do not wish to see that hard-charging bag of bones again, unless it is in my soup.

Tamora Pierce

#41. There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

Hafez

#42. These poor deluded and amiable creatures, who have no notion of who they themselves are and are therefore incapable of making their own future. If they really get around to knowing who they are and why they are, maybe one day they will be able to assume the reins of their own collective destiny.

Americo Castro

#43. I came in with the intention of serving as long as it made sense for me to do so. The election was a natural moment to think about whether I wanted to stay longer, and I'm thrilled to turn the reins over to my longtime colleague Elisse Walter.

Mary Schapiro

#44. David in this night says of himself, "My heart is inflamed, and my reins are changed, and I am brought to nothing, and knew not."2 That is, "my heart hath been inflamed" in the love of contemplation;

San Juan De La Cruz

#45. During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

Paulo Coelho

#46. Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#47. Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

Saadi

#48. I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that oldies type feeling. I want to put it all together and create a Top 40 of rhythm and blues and country and straight blues with Wolfman at the reins.

Wolfman Jack

#49. When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

Lytton Strachey

#50. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins.

Mary Cholmondeley

#51. It was expected that men's hands would be good and calloused by reins and shovels and the hands of other men whose lives they knew by the tough skin of their handshakes.

Wiley Cash

#52. It's no use just by shouting out that it is bad or it's good. If someone feels bad about something, they should go and support the reins themselves.

Mithun Chakraborty

#53. 222. He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.

Max F. Muller

#54. There was no planning for insanity. With enough revolutions and elections, enough transfers of power, eventually a madman would take the reins.

Hugh Howey

#55. I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit?

Katie Price

#56. Hate has always been the blinder used by those who own slaves. It allows those they enslave to only see those who escaped the yoke, and not the one that sits holding the reins. The moment you hear anyone fear-mongering and pointing fingers, you should look for the shackle on your ankle." "Don't

Wen Spencer

#57. I like someone who can take the reins, who knows what they want and is strong with me.

Leona Lewis

#58. The horse must perform from joy, not subservience. Praising a horse frequently with voice, a gentle pat, or relaxing the reins is very important to keep the horse interested and willing.

Klaus Balkenhol

#59. I'll 'ave 'er there well afore, ma'am," the cabby said, impressed by the guinea, if by nothing else. He chirruped to his horse, who trotted off without needing a slap of the reins or a touch of the whip.

Mercedes Lackey

#60. 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

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

Maxine Kumin

#62. Some tragic mistakes are often made by those who acquire the reins of control before their maturity is adequate to handle it.

James C. Dobson

#63. Take the reins of your life in your hands every day. Get up and put a smile on your face, and feel grateful for this gift in your life.

Susan L. Taylor

#64. My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#65. If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.

Katie Aselton

#66. A critical question to ask when bringing in a new CEO to take the reins of a company you started is: Do you want someone who will maintain company culture or reinvent it?

Ryan Holmes

#67. Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever.

Anderson Cooper

#68. But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

Jim Capaldi

#69. The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.

John Heartfield

#70. The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world..This is how it has worked for me.

Sourav Ganguly

#71. On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

Hector Hugh Munro

#72. Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be reprehended: If defective let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence.

George Washington

#73. The person in the saddle is not necessarily the one holding the reins.

D. Cypriani Regis

#74. And I suddenly understand what to do when bad things come. You don't hide, you don't look away; you get right up on them, you take the reins and you ride.

Joan Bauer

#75. You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Diahann Carroll

#76. Let's make this a slow ride, shall we?"
The deep purr of her voice brought a sassy grin to his face. The long slant of his eyes grew languid. "You have the reins, cher. You can whip me with them if you like.

Nancy Gideon

#77. In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

Chaka Khan

#78. Why is it the only joy you show these days is in battle? Why do you hunger for it so? Does it makes you forget? Does it ease your pain?"
Nortah tugged his horse's reins and resume the walk to the stables. "It eases nothing. But it does make me forget, for a while at least.

Anthony Ryan

#79. History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.

Zephyr Teachout

#80. 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

#81. Vivi stood and crumpled the report. "Who's the CEO at Slakerian?"
"Jakes Echabarne," her assistant said, not glancing at any notes.
"Arrange a meeting." No one messed around with Hunting4TrueLove, whether she held the reins or not.

Cheryl Sterling

#82. If there is a 'Leave' vote in England and across the U.K. as a whole, then we see the reins of power being seized by politicians who are on the right of the Conservative party.

Nicola Sturgeon

#83. When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.

Jeff Olson

#84. We are willing to weather the storm of multiple failures to achieve a goal. We're so convinced in the destination that we are able to let go of the reins and give it to God.

Boris Kodjoe

#85. The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins,

Lorne Michaels

#86. 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

#87. With mouths agape, they stared in awe at the floor of fire and wall of flame. Atop a horse of golden flames that whipped and licked the leather reins, untouched by the fire that twisted and burned, sat Heimdallr, guardian of the Bilrost.

Angela B. Chrysler

#88. Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

John Milton

#89. Because any Dom knows that the submissive is the one in control. He might wield the crop or the candle wax or the rope, but she holds the reins. Nothing happens without her consent.

Blue Kincaid

#90. The mind is compared to a wild horse,and the practice of ethics is compared to the reins by which this wild horse is tamed.

Dalai Lama XIV

#91. Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice. 7.

Marcus Aurelius

#92. She gasped again and opened blue eyes lit with erotic mischief. "Are you trying to steal the reins from me?"
Even with his penis buried deep within her, even moments from climax, he arched an eyebrow. "You have them only by my permission.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#93. The sovereign people have declared they want to take back the reins of their Destiny.

Marine Le Pen

#94. The number of CEOs voluntarily leaving their jobs or being forced out spiked early. Many of those companies will be turning to an interim CEO to take the reins. These temporary leaders are increasingly in demand, according to those who watch corner office trends.

Steve Inskeep

#95. Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

Fanny Burney

#96. Once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath. Reins and whip and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read that article of war

Charles Dickens

#97. That the whole nation, tired of war, actually only longed for order, quiet, and a little security and bourgeois life. And, secretly it hated the republic, not because it suppressed this wild freedom, but on the contrary, because it held the reins too loosely.

Stefan Zweig

#98. You are a child if you thought I didn't know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I've been -
He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.

Margaret Mitchell

#99. 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

#100. The cruel part is that, to let the play live, you have to surrender control and let your characters go. You have to let them stumble, fall into walls and be mute, let them drift and be lost. If you hold the reins too tight, they won't spring to life.

Tina Howe