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Tag Name "Tame" (141)

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Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild
Mark Twain
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The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.
John Climacus
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Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty. He could picture himself a very happy man at that table. Not feeling very conversational this evening, are we? Colin asked, breaking into his (admittedly tame) fantasies.
Julia Quinn
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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Aeschylus
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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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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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The reason why feral kitties are hard to tame is because they have missed socialization the period - you need to be touching and petting those kittens when they are real young.
Temple Grandin
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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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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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So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different
Bill Sienkiewicz
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
George Herbert
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It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.
Meles Zenawi
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The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame Buy cheap, sell dear eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want Pay tithes for soul-insurance keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is. You can't tame everyone in America, as much as these people would like to, into some kind of small-town, Southern community.
Irvine Welsh
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Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty as superstition,on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery.
David Hume
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The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own animal. And I didn't want to tame it, either. I wanted it to be different. It's not your typical documentary.
Steven Sebring
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Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.
Susie Orbach
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Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.
Louisa May Alcott
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Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.
Marilu Henner
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There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity
Mina Loy
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Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.
Tony Joe White
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A speckled cat and a tame hare Eat at my hearthstone And sleep there And both look up to me alone For learning and defence As I look up to Providence.
William Butler Yeats
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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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I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?
Dimitris Mitropoulos
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