Quotes about Tame

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. Votes: 3

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Votes: 3

Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires. Votes: 3

I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I'm not going to lose it. Votes: 3

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. Votes: 2

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you. Votes: 2

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. Votes: 2

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life. Votes: 2

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. Votes: 2

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated. Votes: 2

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. Votes: 2

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious. Votes: 2

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. Votes: 2

The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him. Votes: 2

Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves. Votes: 2

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Votes: 2

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Votes: 2

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. Votes: 2

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer. Votes: 2

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious. Votes: 2

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says. Votes: 2

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals. Votes: 2

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots. Votes: 2

People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd. Votes: 2

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. Votes: 2

Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next. Votes: 2

Lions make leopards tame. Votes: 0

My books are so tame! Votes: 0

Love can tame the wildest. Votes: 0

Little losses amaze, great tame. Votes: 0

Everything pays for growing tame. Votes: 0

Naming nature doesn't tame nature. Votes: 0

God created woman to tame man. Votes: 0

...Wild to hold, though I seem tame. Votes: 0

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure. Votes: 0

God created women only to tame men. Votes: 0

Love hath made thee a tame snake Votes: 0

I just don't believe people can tame animals. Votes: 0

Love is a flame neither timid nor tame. Votes: 0

I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts. Votes: 0

Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame. Votes: 0

You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson. Votes: 0

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. Votes: 0

He was a contented dragon, not a tame one. Votes: 0

He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion. Votes: 0

You put quite a fight for a tame kitty Votes: 0

Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame Votes: 0

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame. Votes: 0

A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press. Votes: 0

The only things you learn are the things you tame Votes: 0

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Votes: 0

I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud. Votes: 0

I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels. Votes: 0

Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are. Votes: 0

Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things. Votes: 0

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect. Votes: 0

We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. Votes: 0

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly Votes: 0

An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral. Votes: 0

This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me. Votes: 0

Before you can tame your genius spirit, you have to find her. Votes: 0

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. Votes: 0

When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world Votes: 0

By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat. Votes: 0

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. Votes: 0

Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild Votes: 0

There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity Votes: 0

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame. Votes: 0

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it? Votes: 0

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something. Votes: 0

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame. Votes: 0

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself. Votes: 0

The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame . . . Votes: 0

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. Votes: 0

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Votes: 0

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch. Votes: 0

In our forestspart divineand makes her heart palpitatewild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound! Votes: 0

Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. Votes: 0

Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own. Votes: 0

I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. Votes: 0

You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame Votes: 0

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. Votes: 0

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. Votes: 0

Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am / And wild for to hold, though I seem tame. Votes: 0

God is God, He is not tame and domesticated like we sometimes (try to) make Him. Votes: 0

Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education. Votes: 0

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life. Votes: 0

To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning. Votes: 0

One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything. Votes: 0

Sweetie, she-warriors don"t scream. We wow our men with a look, tame them with a smile. Votes: 0

My money's on the lady," he drawled. "You don't tame a vixen, you just travel in her wake. Votes: 0

What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with. Votes: 0

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master. Votes: 0

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians. Votes: 0

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable. Votes: 0

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame. Votes: 0

It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles. Votes: 0

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place. Votes: 0

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man. Votes: 0

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous. Votes: 0

It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince Votes: 0

Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world. Votes: 0

Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories. Votes: 0

And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl. Votes: 0

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle. Votes: 0

Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame. Votes: 0

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them. Votes: 0

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder. Votes: 0

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season. Votes: 0

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse. Votes: 0

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all. Votes: 0

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa. Votes: 0

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame Votes: 0

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again. Votes: 0

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him. Votes: 0

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly. Votes: 0

If Obama's a tyrant, he's a pretty tame tyrant. How many tyrants do you know that really suffer because they can't get cloture? Votes: 0

Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind. Votes: 0

Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same. Votes: 0

I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself. Votes: 0

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow. Votes: 0

Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame. Votes: 0

Riggedy riggedy white Come and spend the night We'll play some games Some wild some tame Cause if you will, you might. By, Laberge Votes: 0

Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations. Votes: 0

People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life. Votes: 0

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain. Votes: 0

Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action. Votes: 0

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all. Votes: 0

Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse. Votes: 0

For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have been a bridesmaid. Fortunately, the outfits were pretty tame. They were cream and black, but I still wouldn't wear them out in public, though. Votes: 0

All you have is your fire And the place you need to reach Don't you ever tame your demons But always keep them on a leash Votes: 0

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I mean, you can tame feral cats now, but you are never gonna get them like a cat that's been socialized at a very young age Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. Votes: 0

Well, one wearies of the Public Gardens: one wants a vacationWhere trees and clouds and animals pay no notice;Away from the labeled elms, the tame tea-roses Votes: 0

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion. Votes: 0

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse. Votes: 0

Praise Him, each savage furious beast That on His stores do daily feast; And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough, Your weary knees to your Creator bow. Votes: 0

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.... Votes: 0

But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world. Votes: 0

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense. Votes: 0

I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. Votes: 0

If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage. Votes: 0

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and the world. Votes: 0

Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home." I snapped the phone shut and placed it in her waiting hand. "I'm done. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house. Votes: 0

Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do? Votes: 0

This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And the worse we treat them, the more passionate they become. Votes: 0

When you tame and domesticate the divine it loses its danger and it's power to forgive you, make you happy, or its power to challenge you, and call you towards new growth. Votes: 0

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul. Votes: 0

A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Votes: 0

If socialism failed, it was for political, more than economic, reasons; and if capitalism is to succeed it will be because it finds the political will and means to tame its economic forces. Votes: 0

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type. Votes: 0

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk. Votes: 0

Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats. Votes: 0

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever. They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says. Votes: 0

Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors. Votes: 0

This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural. Votes: 0

The other thing, 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. Votes: 0

Ryan Seacrest: Trouble, trouble trouble. So why do girls go for the bad guys, what is it Taylor Swift? Why? Taylor Swift: Because maybe we could change them! Everybody wants to like tame a lion. Votes: 0