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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin
You
Passion
Drives
Hold
Reason
Reins
The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.
Nigel Hamilton
War
Adversity
Great
History
Overcome
Heroic
President
Our
Facing
Take
Had
Armed
Armed Forces
Forces
Polio
Greatest
Commander
Chief
Behalf
Human
Story
Human History
Who
Reins
In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an exhausted and frostbitten soldier crouched over the reins of a pony sleigh carrying the body of another soldier.
Andrea Barrett
Surgeon
Exhausted
Soldier
Carrying
Finds
One-Night
Hospital
Outside
Over
Another
Story
Pony
Working
Body
Eventually
Published
Reins
Assistant
Night
Gates
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
Statesman
Guiding
Follow
Follows
Having
Horses
Firm
Opinion
His
Hold
Public
Them
Should
Doubtless
Public Opinion
Reins
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman
Government
Time
You
World
Worldview
Focus
Power
Doubt
Strategy
Resources
Guides
One Or Two
Fact
Primarily
Look
Most
Conceptual
Practical
Documents
Limitations
Limited
Itself
Any
Anybody
Who
Reins
Things
Two
When people talk about conservative government, that's it in a nutshell. We're using taxpayers' money like we would use our own. We're holding in the reins during good times so we're prepared during bad times.
Bill Haslam
Government
Good
People
Money
Conservative
Own
Holding
Conservative Government
Our
Nutshell
Bad
Would
About
Bad Times
Good Times
Like
Talk
Times
Taxpayers
Use
Using
Prepared
Reins
In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.
Chaka Khan
Time
Thirties
Some
Had
Felt
Hold
Reins
I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.
David Byrne
Music
You
Culture
People
Feeling
Whatever
Enjoy
Every
Give
General
Consumers
Like
Yeah
Passive
Encourage
Up
Happens
Mean
Products
Connection
Professionals
Reins
As I prepare to take over the reins of your government, I ask each of you to join me in the process of governing.
David Ige
Government
Me
You
Join
Take
Over
Governing
Process
Ask
Your
Prepare
Each
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.
Jensen Ackles
Time
Nervous
Girl
First
Approach
Once
Bad
Take
Around
First Time
Go
Get
Just
Really
Initial
Reins
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
History
Together
Rights
Every
Defense
West
Bragging
Grab
Offense
Stop
Want
Us
Each
Let Us
Reins
Start
Playing
I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit?
Katie Price
Time
Hair
Like
From Time To Time
Being
Pair
Reins
Pulled
It's important to drive your own ship, and it's your career, so you might as well take it by the reins.
Madison Beer
You
Drive
Important
Own
Take
Well
Ship
Might
Your
Reins
Career
If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.
Mark Manson
Politics
Government
Lose
Everybody
Caring
Our
About
Going
Just
Stops
Reins
We kind of established in Sons of Apollo right from the get go that it would be a very collaborative process musically, but after that, I was going to take the reins and control everything else beyond that the way I did with Dream Theater.
Mike Portnoy
Control
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Way
Collaborative
Musically
Kind
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Take
Sons
Beyond
Go
Very
Get
Did
Going
Established
After
Process
Theater
Apollo
Reins
Right
If there is a 'Leave' vote in England and across the U.K. as a whole, then we see the reins of power being seized by politicians who are on the right of the Conservative party.
Nicola Sturgeon
Vote
Conservative
Power
Party
Politicians
Conservative Party
See
Seized
Leave
Being
Then
Across
England
Who
Whole
Reins
Right
I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.
Ricky Schroder
Charge
About
Take
Since
Until
Been
Then
Reins
Career
I have the version of me where I'm interviewing someone, where I definitely am the straight man, and I like to show a lot of respect to my guest and let them take the reins. I don't like to compete with my guests. I don't like to be funnier than my guests or get into a 'Who's wackier?' sort of thing.
Tom Green
Me
Man
Respect
Interviewing
Guest
Guests
Definitely
Someone
Take
Like
Sort
Am
Lot
Version
Than
Get
Where
Straight
Them
Straight Man
Show
Reins
Thing
Compete
Funnier
The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.
William Cavendish
Meet
Both
Horse
Between
Hand
Which
Rider
Bridle
Reins
Neck
Two
Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.
Zhang Zhidong
Love
Government
Good
Loyalty
Strong
Protection
Opportunity
First
Become
Every
Consider
Our
Those
Wealthy
Embrace
Object
General
General Good
Imperial
Court
Hold
Which
Commonwealth
Us
Who
Display
Let Us
Reins
Every Opportunity
We need to stop hoping that our systems will right themselves. We need to actually take the reins of government and fix our institutions. We need to save lives by making change at every level.
Chelsea Manning
Government
Change
Will
Every
Our
Systems
Hoping
Take
Institutions
Making
Fix
Stop
Themselves
Lives
Reins
Actually
Right
Level
Need
Save
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, Sr.
Man
Thought
Master
Past
Every
Run
Must
Would
Except
Him
Caught
Event
Ever
Reins
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