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If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins. -- Benjamin Franklin
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. -- Benjamin Franklin
In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time. -- Chaka Khan
I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit? -- Katie Price
When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me. -- Christina Aguilera
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
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
I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at. -- Jensen Ackles
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
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
The sovereign people have declared they want to take back the reins of their Destiny. -- Marine Le Pen
The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand. -- William Cavendish
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
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
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
No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods. -- C. S. Lewis
As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty. -- Ron Paul
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. -- George Washington
I like someone who can take the reins, who knows what they want and is strong with me. -- Leona Lewis
The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand. -- William Cavendish
I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then. -- Ricky Schroder
There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career. -- Katie Aselton
But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics. -- Jim Capaldi
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges. -- John Thune
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
I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be. -- David Byrne
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited. -- Barton Gellman
Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged. -- Anne Tyler
Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety. -- Saadi
If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins -- Priscilla Shirer
As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people. -- James Bovard
The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins, -- Lorne Michaels
I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach. -- Maxine Kumin
It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo. -- Garth Brooks
Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins. -- Dean Koontz
There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins. -- Hafez
My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state. -- Anthony Gregory
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
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
When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself. -- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Hold on to the reins of Love and don't be afraid. Hold on to the real behind the false and don't be afraid. -- Rumi
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Every man is our brother, and every man's burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal. -- Whitney M. Young
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 Orville Douglas
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
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
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
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
Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly. [Lat., Ne frena animo permitte calenti; Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat Impetus.] -- Statius
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
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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