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  • Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.

    Horse   Sky   Weather  
  • Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only one who can end the worst of its abuses is you. Call your representatives and tell them that the unconstitutional 'bulk collection' of Americans' private records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act must end.

    Opportunity   Nsa   Abuse  
  • In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

    Race   Long   Hopeless  
    Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.8
  • Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

    Hands   Poverty   Reins  
  • 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.

    Horse   Hands   Two  
    Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.442, Delphi Classics
  • If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.115, SCM Press
  • I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them.I think you should just wait for the person you're in love with.

    "Justin Bieber Talks Sex, Politics, Music and Puberty In New 'Rolling Stone' Cover Story". www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.
  • Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'

  • Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

    George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.152, Indiana University Press
  • I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

    Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr
  • 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.

    Running   Men   Thinking  
    Oliver Wendell Holmes (1911). “From Day to Day with Holmes”
  • [Men's] natural tendencies, natural proclivities, are bad. You gotta rein that in. You gotta dial that back. You need to really raise your conscience level and be aware of how others see you and dial it back, because it's just too predatory, brutish, what have you.

    Men   Needs   Levels  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

  • 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 accordion-like quality.

    "DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 23, 1974.
  • Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.

  • Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

    Heart   Tongue   Reins  
  • I like someone who can take the reins, who knows what they want and is strong with me.

    Strong   Want   Reins  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

  • A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.

  • 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, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
  • The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.

  • I have to rein myself in sometimes.

    "EXCLUSIVE: Rose Byrne is the Girl Next Door in ‘Neighbors’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. May 6, 2014.
  • Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man.

    Dream   Passion   Men  
  • Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

    Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 54 (1693)
  • The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities.

    Mean   Loss   Office  
    Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International
  • Lay down the axe; fling by the spade; Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms like yours were fitter now; And let the hands that ply the pen Quit the light task, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein The charger on the battle-field.

    War   Light   Hands  
  • Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

    Teaching   Angel   Giving  
    Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.14, Schocken
  • Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

    Anger   Passion   Giving  
    "Thebaid" by Statius, translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey in "Loeb Classical Library", Vol. 207, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
  • My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

    Stars   Fading   Slipping  
  • Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

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