Short Leash Quotes

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

William Curtis

#2. 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

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

Becca Fitzpatrick

#4. When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.

Ilona Andrews

#5. Hey, let's try speed-starting the fire with an infusion of pure oxygen! Because inside every senior tech officer was a junior tech officer who'd been on a short leash for a long time.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#6. Apply analysis when appropriate, but keep it on a short leash when joy beckons.

Alan Cohen

#7. And at the UN she took the advice - she had to take the advice - of the State Department and the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations. They keep our UN representatives on a very short leash. She did as she was told, and voted as she was told.

William A. Rusher

#8. 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

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

Alan Cohen

#10. And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#11. The cool thing about passion is that no matter how good or bad a day you're having, tomorrow's going to be better because passion finds some way of doubling itself.

Garth Brooks

#12. It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

John Galsworthy

#13. Gus screamed, the notecards falling out of his hand as he jumped. "Whoa," Bernice said. "That certainly was high-pitched for a man." "Gus is special that way," Betty said as she scooped up the cards off the counter.

T.J. Klune

#14. Prophets from Amos and Isaiah to Gandhi and King have shown how frequently compassion demands confrontation. Love without criticism is a kind of betrayal. Lying is done with silence as well as with words.

William Sloane Coffin

#15. At times like this it's traditional that a hero comes forth," said the President of the Guild of Assassins. "A dragon slayer. Where is he, that's what I want to know? Why aren't our schools turning out young people with the skills society needs?

Terry Pratchett

#16. serenity, the calm daughter of tolerance

Erich Maria Remarque

#17. Stiles doesn't even know how short of a leash he's on, because he never even tests it.

1001cranes

#18. It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people.

Sheryl Lee

#19. Everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.

Harry Crews

#20. Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

Bernie Mac

#21. I'm sorry, but having an Aston Martin DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch.

Jeremy Clarkson

#22. 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

#23. When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

Edward Abbey

#24. ADEPT ADAPTATION
Potholes on the road of life sharpen our maneuverability skills
Kamil Ali

Kamil Ali

#25. The word "identification" is derived from the Latin word idem, meaning "same" and facere, which means "to make." So when I identify with something, I "make it the same." The same as what? The same as I. I endow it with a sense of self, and so it becomes part of my "identity.

Eckhart Tolle

#26. I think it's a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have to be humans, you know?

Rand Paul