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Tag Name "Reins" (58)

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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
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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George Eliot
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If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins
Priscilla Shirer
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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
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It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.
Richard Paul Evans
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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
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I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.
Shelley Long
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There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.
Hafez
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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
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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
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One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child. He was the Fourth to follow the Star. His gift was a secret. The rest of his journey is unknown.
Vera Nazarian
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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
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Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
Walter Scott
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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
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The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.
Lorne Michaels
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When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.
Abraham Lincoln
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The sovereign people have declared they want to take back the reins of their Destiny.
Marine Le Pen
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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
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I think I would have kept in contact with venture capital investors and entrepreneurs. I'm sure staying involved as something like a coach would be fun. If I handed over the reins to a successor, I wouldn't stick around [to pull strings] like a retired emperor.
Masayoshi Son
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