Domesticate Quotes

#1. All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

John W. Gardner

#2. History is a big word ... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

Antonio Tabucchi

#3. Our cultures domesticate us for obscure purposes, nurturing and encouraging certain aspects of our behavior and tendencies while seeking to eliminate those that might be disruptive.

Christopher Ryan

#4. 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.

Zygmunt Bauman

#5. An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.

Jean Giraud

#6. Dharma must not only domesticate nature, it also needs to ensure there is harmony between nature and culture.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#7. Well suited to those with large shoulders and feet like spades, swimming enjoyed a boost in popularity in Victorian times when, due to advancements in water husbandry, we were able to domesticate H2O, trapping large amounts of it in four-sided pits or 'pools'. I

Alan Partridge

#8. Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.

Dave Hickey

#9. Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

Abu Bakar Bashir

#10. Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification.
xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes

J.K. Rowling

#11. We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.

Yuval Noah Harari

#12. 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.

John O'Donohue

#13. Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.

Aijaz Ahmad

#14. I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

Jonathan Lethem

#15. P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.

Paulo Freire

#16. After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

Mason Cooley

#17. They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

Pope Francis

#18. Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

Orson Scott Card

#19. Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.

David Christian

#20. [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

Walead Beshty

#21. You kill a cockroach, Pete. You don't domesticate him.

Julie Garwood

#22. I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.

Banksy

#23. I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. Everyone loves the single girl. She is the adorable needy human equivalent of a stray pet others want to domesticate.

Betsy Israel

#25. How does someone domesticate a horse?" "They break it," I said with a hint of defiance. "Do I look broken to you?" "Looks

Robert J. Crane

#26. I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.

Michael Gove

#27. I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either.

A. Elizabeth Delany

#28. I've always had good energy; I've always had good health.

Dick Gephardt

#29. Life can give us many beautiful person but only one is enough to make it beautiful

Jan Jansen

#30. We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

George Weinberg

#31. I am proud to represent the capital of Kerala, a state that in so many ways is a trailblazer for India's progress, though in other respects it seems to have been left behind in the race for 21st century development.

Shashi Tharoor

#32. The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

Delia Smith

#33. The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God's will and refusing to do it.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#34. Knowledge is not rooted in facts; it is rooted in curiosity. One inspired teacher can alter a student for life by instilling curiosity.

Deepak Chopra