The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are ...necessary for the peace and security of the community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may ...rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgement shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The area [of toilet training] is one where a child really does possess the power to defy. Strong pressure leads to a powerful stru...ggle. The issue then is not toilet training but who holds the reins--mother or child? And the child has most of the ammunition!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You had gained, you outleapt them;... a sudden, swift lift of the reins, a sudden, swift, taut grip of the reins, as suddenly loosed, you had gained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the vice of our public speaking that it has not abandonment. Somewhere, not only every orator but every man should let out a...ll the length of all the reins; should find or make a frank and hearty expression of what force and meaning is in him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the traveller who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his ...road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have for company the best companion you will ever have--the modest, defeated, plodding workaday self which has a name and can ...be identified in public registers in case of accident or death. But the real self, the one who has taken over the reins, is almost a stranger. He is the one who is filled with ideas; he is the one who is writing in the air; he is the one who, if you become too fascinated with his exploits, will finally expropriate the old, worn-out self, taking over your name, your address, your wife, your past, your future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mother...s, 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »