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Quotes About Harness

As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.
~ Robert Bork
with its head under its wing. I was so sorry, yet so glad. 'For us, the living, the problem is of a totally different order: how to harness time in the cultivation of a style of heart — something like that?
~ Lawrence Durrell
People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.
~ Glenn T. Seaborg
The new science takes us from a colonial vision of nature as an enemy to pillage and enslave, to a new vision of nature as a community to nurture. The right to exploit, harness, and own nature in the form of property is tempered by the obligation to steward nature and treat it with dignity and respect. The utility value of nature is slowly giving way to the intrinsic value of nature.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.
~ Ciaran Hinds
I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.
~ Ryan Gosling
I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love for the form and different aspects of the horse. Then I thought about the bit, halter, and bridle in terms of how we harness and ride this animal. There were a lot of interesting elements to explore.
~ Jill Greenberg
I'm happy doing stand-up, but I'll probably do a television show eventually. If not, I'll delve into this Internet world and decide best how to harness it. What I like best about it is the independent movie style and the ability to just be completely reckless within that world. I like that a lot. I just have to acquaint myself with technology.
~ Norm MacDonald
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
~ Robert Frost
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
~ Robert Frost
The task of government was not to stop selfish striving—a hopeless task—but to harness it for the public good.
~ Ron Chernow
task of government was not to stop selfish striving—a hopeless task—but to harness it for the public good.
~ Ron Chernow
As we shall see, the truth was far more complex, for the bank would skillfully harness the Fed and use it to amplify its powers.
~ Ron Chernow
They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.
~ Donald O'Connor
I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.
~ Kelly Macdonald
Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness.
~ Louis L'Amour
Cannot tell why we or they March and suffer day by day. Children of the Camp are we, Serving each in his degree; Children of the yoke and goad, Pack and harness, pad and load!
~ Rudyard Kipling
We want to design interventions to teach people how to harness their considerable willpower.
~ Carol S. Dweck
If we don't harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil.
~ Romeo Dallaire
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~ Angus Stevenson
He went out, already unaccountably weary though the journey had not even begun, into the multicolored arctic waste beneath a decillion stars, whose near brilliance seemed to chime, even as the harness of his reindeer chimed when they raised their shaggy heads at his approach, and as the eternal snow chimed too when he trod it with his booted feet. Room
~ John Crowley
For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.
~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand
We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!
~ Caity Lotz
Before he left Rome, Marcus had been in a fair way to becoming a charioteer, in Cradoc's sense of the word, and now desire woke in him, not to possess this team, for he was not one of those who much be able to say "Mine" before they can truly enjoy a thing, but to have them out and harnessed; to feel the vibrating chariot floor under him, and the spread reins quick with life in his hands, and these lovely, fiery little creatures in the traces, his will and theirs at one.
~ Rosemary Sutcliff