Reins Quotes

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

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.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.