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Tag Name "Tame" (140)

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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Aeschylus
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Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.
Ron Fournier
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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Lydia M. Child
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You’re far more likely to see a naked woman than a naked man. It’s only [seen as] rude because the rest of television is rather tame – it doesn’t actually talk about sex and our bodies and how we feel about them. I’m not out to shock.
Russell T Davies
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This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me.
Marianne Curley
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My books are so tame!
Sarah Dessen
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They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
Mark Twain
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Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.
Stanislaw Lem
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Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild
Mark Twain
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They are very tame to me. God bless Noel, I'm sure he'll always have a spot on 'Bob's Full House', but I search for something with more bite and rage.
Steven Morrissey
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An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.
Mary Deasy
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Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.
Susie Orbach
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The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.
Max Stirner
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
Tea Leoni
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Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home
Michael Franti
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There's something really precious in that - if you try to tame something that's meant to be wild you wind up jeopardizing the nature of why it exists.
Mikky Ekko
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Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.
Jewel
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Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.
Miuccia Prada
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My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.
Joan Miro
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It was a very, very strange experience to go through on social media. Before that, my social media life had been very tame. I had only just dipped my toes in the world of Twitter and was throwing out a tweet, here and there, of very boring and normal stuff. All of a sudden, Pornstache just turned my world upside down.
Pablo Schreiber
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Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.
John Gay
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Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato
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