Reins Quotes

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin

Passion, Reason, Hold

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

Away, Keep, Run

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

Opinion, Public, Hold

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

Husband, After, Hand

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

Time, Bad, Around

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, Jr.

Past, Him, Thought

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

Strong, Someone, Knows

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

Time, Hair, Pulled

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

Write, Song, Point

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

Government, Maturity, Flower

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

Learning, Yourself, Keep

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.
Chaka Khan

Time, Felt, Hold

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

Leadership, Forward, Put

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.
William Cavendish

Two, Between, Both

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

Crazy, Important, Real

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 III

History, Together, Start

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