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Tag Name "Tame" (141)

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God is wild I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.
Whitley Strieber
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I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
Joan Jett
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The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
Dennis Potter
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It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
Flora Thompson
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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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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau
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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, I was tame compared to what they do now.
Elvis Presley
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Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.
Robert Breault
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
Iris Murdoch
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Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short youth is nimble, age is lame Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold Youth is wild, and age is tame.
William Shakespeare
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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.
Jeanette Winterson
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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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No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.
William E. Conway, Jr.
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When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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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You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people it's a monster you have to tame.
Lisa Marie Presley
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People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.
Frederick Lenz
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An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.
Ruth Ozeki
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No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. We will also suffer along the way. Living wild is it's own reward.
Sark
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
Frances O'Connor
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