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“It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.”

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Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.”

Author:Anne Tyler

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

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Book:The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

“Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.”

Painting Perspective Reins Rudders

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.”

Running Chance Army Accidents Riders Reins Ambush

Author:Hafez

“One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up against displeasure, if one gives rein to its desires without setting [any] limit, it becomes confused and can no longer take delight in anything.”

People Ifs Giving Remember Desire Differences Please Limits Delight Equality Setting Settings Confused Reins Displeasure

Author:Xunzi

“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.”

Ifs Whole Government Nations Flower France Maturity Splendid Reins

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

“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.”

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Author:Margaret Oliphant

“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.”

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Author:Shelley Long

“If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Children Bigs Might Language Struggle Nice Smoking Reins Booze Lush Seasoning

Author:Olivia Colman

“We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.”

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Author:Eric Cantor

“The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.”

Helping Jobs Honest Creating Red Get Back Factories Tape Small Business Reins Red Tape Creating Jobs

Author:Geoff Davis