#reins

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

#firm #follow #follows #guiding #having

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.

#event #ever #every #except #him

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#hold #passion #reason #reins #you

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

#defense #each #every #grab #history

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

— Katie Price

#from time to time #hair #i #i do #like

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

#burst #came #flower #france #government

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

#difficult #difficult thing #distance #holding #how

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

— Christina Aguilera

#first #hand #helping #helping hand #husband

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

#around #bad #first #first time #get

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 #hobbies #keep #know #must