“ 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- Copy
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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- Copy
- 2.9K
“ He who can control his rising anger as a coachman controls his carriage at full speed, this man I call a good driver; others merely hold the reins. ”
- Gautama Buddha- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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 E. Barr- Copy
- 3.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins. ”
- Veda Upanishads- Copy
- 3.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.5K
“ He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 215
“ He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins. ”
- The Dhammapada- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Fear, if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release. ”
- John M. Wilson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage… ”
- Marilyn French- Copy
- 827
“ He had dropped upon a seat halfway down the nave and, again in the museum mood, was trying with head thrown back and eyes aloft, to reconstitute a past, to reduce it in fact to the convenient terms of Victor Hugo, whom, a few days before, giving the rein for once in a way to the joy of life, he had purchased in seventy bound volumes, a miracle of cheapness, parted with, he was assured by the shopman, at the price of the red-and-gold alone… ”
- Henry James- Copy
- 978
“ I do find it quite easy to get angry, especially after a hard day. In public, you have to try and rein in your temper because people try and goad you into it. But I did lose it with a company the other day. I shrieked at them because they were lying about coming to fix my boiler… ”
- Richard Wilson- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Know thou the self as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call the enjoyer. ”
- Albert Pike- Copy
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“ War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny … .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death. ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
- 865
“ The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness. ”
- Margaret Oliphant- Copy
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