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The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over. -- Timothy Noah
I need to rein myself in sometimes. -- Kevin Pietersen
Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment. -- Jonathan Shapiro
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. -- Charles Babbage
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. -- Anna Quindlen
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn. -- Lucian Freud
The question for Obama is how he can rein in the furies of populism while making us all feel the malefactors of great wealth are being sufficiently punished. -- Tina Brown
I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. -- Willie Nelson
So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein. -- Guy Green
We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates. -- Eric Cantor
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The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work. -- Geoff Davis
As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget. -- Tim Scott
The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet. -- Dennis Rodman
I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image. -- Leni Riefenstahl
I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have. -- Patti Smith
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. -- Amelia Barr
If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language. -- Olivia Colman
To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past. -- Michael Bennet
I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that's lost all balance. -- Pat Toomey
After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in. -- Pat Toomey
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts. -- Paul Bloom
And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. -- Mitt Romney
The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prime minister will have profound repercussions for Japan and East Asia. Most western commentary during the premiership of Junichiro Koizumi has been concerned with the extent to which Japan has allowed a freer rein to market forces. -- Martin Jacques
I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time. -- Vivienne Westwood
This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system. -- Chris Christie
Je ne regrette rein. -- Christina Lauren
I have to rein myself in sometimes. -- Rose Byrne
Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos. -- Andy Grove
Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings -- Jocelyn Murray
Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings. -- Jocelyn Murray
Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein -- Steig Larsson
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein. -- Karl Kraus
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. -- William J. Clinton
Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart. -- Minna Antrim
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion. -- Barbara Mertz
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands. -- Petrarch
East, to the dawn, or west or south or north! Loose rein upon the neck of-and forth! -- Richard Hovey
American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament. -- Roger Ross Williams
The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights. -- William J. Clinton
Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand. -- George Washington
Every rein aid must be preceded by an action of the torso. Otherwise you only address the horse's head. -- Nuno Oliveira
Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium. -- S. S. Van Dine
Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. -- Roy Kesey
The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won. -- Philip K. Dick
I tend to get over-excited and very, very loud. I rein myself in when people flinch and dogs start howling. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
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Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred. -- Albert Camus
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. -- George Santayana
Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release -- John Moulder Wilson
I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same. -- Margaret Mitchell
Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather. -- Ian Anderson
I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain. -- John Gay
I'm a pretty hands-off director. I let people try things, and if it gets over-jokey, then I'll try and rein it in a little bit. -- Joe Swanberg
I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them.I think you should just wait for the person you'rein love with. -- Justin Bieber
Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this power by gentle rein aids. -- Nuno Oliveira
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. -- Agatha Christie
The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot. -- Swami Vivekananda
My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world. -- Algernon Blackwood
I [seek] a style in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image. -- Leni Riefenstahl
Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things. -- Ole Hallesby
Pow'r above pow'rs! O heavenly eloquence! That with the strong rein of commanding words, Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of men's affections, more than all their swords! -- Samuel Daniel
I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people. -- Ruth Reichl
Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein. -- Rose Tremain
...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection. -- Gottfried Leibniz
I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
I think, to Chelsea's [Handler] point, I still need directing because sometimes I go a little bit off beat in a way that it's like, rein it in. I welcome that kind of support. -- Gordon Ramsay
Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste. -- Ovid

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