I Cant Be Tamed Quotes

#1. But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.

Kahlil Gibran

#2. You're art that cannot be concealed ... danger that cannot be tamed ... love that cannot be measured ... a new law that denies a probable outcome.

Amy A. Bartol

#3. Machines are the concealed wishes of actants which have tamed forces so effectively that they no longer look like forces

Bruno Latour

#4. We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. Breaking, in modern psychology, 'learned helplessness.' This is where you crush an animal's desire to fight. Why is it that we believe broken things are tamed possessions?

Rebecca K. O'Connor

#6. Pine Sap said once that he would rather die than see Tiger Lily tamed. I guess Tiger Lily felt the same way with Peter, because she stayed behind.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#7. Only wild cannot be tamed and I have always been untamable.

Pushpa Rana

#8. What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#9. I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would not be weak, or helpless again
I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.

Susan Sontag

#11. A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

Stanley Kunitz

#12. Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take it easy and do not stir yourself, you will never make any progress. It has been said, "It is no disgrace to have many afflictions: I would worry if there never were any afflictions."

Zicheng Hong

#13. Answer me this: Is love rational? Is it sane? Can it be tamed and sculpted, like a piece of clay? Of course it can't.

Leigh Hershkovich

#14. I have taken a terrible beating from the truth and feel tamed, wise and desperate, as if I had taken a short route to wisdom through a mirror, and cut myself badly on it as I passed through.

Derek Raymond

#15. Keep in mind, I'm not allowed to be tough. I'm tamed.

Shaquille O'Neal

#16. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. The kind of kiss that even when it ends, your soul remembers, the kind of kiss that plays in your mind for all of eternity, the kind of kiss that a man gives a woman when his instincts to roam have been tamed.

C.J. English

#18. Man himself, meeked by his Creator, may when taught and tamed, share the divine life.

Anne Fremantle

#19. No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

Lyman Abbott

#20. You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#21. But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.

Robert Greene

#22. It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.

Michelle Rodriguez

#23. Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

Arthur Keith

#24. The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

Sigmund Freud

#25. Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

#26. Now I stand before houses set
on our secret trail, the haunt of arrowheads
and lost Indians the color of small plums,
rooms in which the new boys play, tamed
by computers and a summer waste of games,
where once, in these woods, we tasted wild fruit.

Thomas Dukes

#27. Any real, beautiful thing in this world shouldn't be tamed or claimed or broken. It should be allowed to be, worked with, not against, appreciated. Don't be afraid of the wild she has left. It makes her special.

Carly Kade

#28. There was a wildness inside him; someday he would capture it. Not to be tamed, but to be released. For only by understanding his mind could it be freed.

Daniel J. Rice

#29. Can I help you? She was middle height and very pretty. He had an overall impression of fine bones and white linen, topped with a wealth of curly brown hair in a sort of half-tamed chignon. And in the middle of it all, the most extraordinary pair of light eyes, just the color of well-aged sherry.

Diana Gabaldon

#30. When he moves, he gives the impression of somebody leaning into the wind, or charging a hill, as if the world with all of its troubles can be tamed if only enough force and energy are brought to bear.

Michael Ian Black