Top 100 Quotes About Tame
#1. Men want to be him, women want to screw him ...
most wanting to be the one to tame the untameable Jake Wethers.
Samantha Towle
#2. Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.
Miuccia Prada
#3. Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.
Gordon S. Wood
#4. Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
Ann Patchett
#5. 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
#6. I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.
Maggie Stiefvater
#7. I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#8. 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
#9. Um ... is that thing tame?" Frank said.
The horse whinnied angrily.
"I don't think so," Percy guessed. "He just said, 'I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man'.
Rick Riordan
#10. 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.
Martin Luther
#11. 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
#12. The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.
John Climacus
#13. You have a terrible beauty that scares me - a fierce defiance that won't be subdued - not that i want to tame you - I don't - I like to look ...
John Geddes
#14. 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
#15. 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.
William Harvey
#16. Fuck your lineage," said Gerris. "The dragons won't care about your blood, except maybe how it tastes. You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson. They're monsters, not maesters. Quent, is this truly what you want to do?
George R R Martin
#17. Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me ...
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#19. Life has played her like a cat weaving between her legs, pretending to be tame, friendly, before sinking its claws into soft, vulnerable flesh.
Wendy James
#20. They'll reenter their lives' cages, where love's tiger sometimes rages, but the beast's too tame to bite. We'll
Wislawa Szymborska
#21. Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.
Ron Fournier
#22. You're unpredictable and dangerous and protect those you love fiercely. You should be proud. To me you're more than a knight in some stupid shiny armour. You're the monster who no one can tame but the woman he loves. - Tess Snow
Pepper Winters
#23. and there was a fish pond a large one full of the fattest goldfish you ever saw and they were tame. they came to the surface of the water and took pieces of bread from our hands.
Charles Bukowski
#24. Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.
Jewel
#25. Because," I tried to tame that whole whirlwind into a sentence, "when you smiled at me right then, I saw something."
I'd seen more than just something, I'd seen a possibility of everything.
James Buchanan
#27. That is fairly tame, I must say. If one is to have a blood sacrifice, I would hope there would at least be a bit more drama about it. Otherwise, it strikes me as a waste of a perfectly good human.
Lauren Willig
#28. I don't want to tame him. I fell in love with him first.
Airicka Phoenix
#29. 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
#30. I should want hundreds of years to bring it all up, if I was fifty times as big, and Smaug as tame as a rabbit.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#31. Mphhh ... What did you say Tyler?' Anna-Louise mumbles on the bed above me.
I stand up, and a tame blue bird lands on my shoulder and tries to nibble my earlobe. I gently shake Anna-Louise fully awake. 'Anna-Louise, wake-up,' I say. 'Wake up
the world is alive.
Douglas Coupland
#32. I am a wild woman.
it would take a warrior to tame my spirit.
Nikki Rowe
#33. Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.
Herman Melville
#34. Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.
Arthur Lismer
#35. If instead you feed the wolf and tame him and turn his pups into your guard dogs, they will protect the flocks when the pack comes ravening.
George R R Martin
#36. Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
#37. We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
Iris Murdoch
#38. I now felt a new, pitiful tenderness toward the poem as one has for a fickle young creature who has been stolen and brutally enjoyed by a black giant but now again is safe in our hall and park, whistling with the stableboys, swimming with the tame seal. The
Vladimir Nabokov
#39. Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.
Marilu Henner
#40. Don't be fearless, but tame your fears, and stop at nothing.
Abhijit Naskar
#41. 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
#42. Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.
Lydia M. Child
#43. I always hoped I'd be the one to tame the bad boy. It's a stupid girly thing, the universal belief in vagina magic where men change after having some.
Milana Jacks
#44. Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#45. 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
#47. No one can be healed of death. All they can do is tame it. Death is a wild animal, sharp-fanged. I am just trying to build a cage to keep it locked in. It is there, beside me, drooling as it waits to devour me. The bars of the cage that protect me are made of paper.
Antoine Leiris
#48. 8But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Anonymous
#49. Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.
Waylon Jennings
#50. The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
John Eldredge
#51. 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.
G.K. Chesterton
#52. You can't tame a wolf and expect it to lie before your hearth in harmony. Sooner or later, the nature of the beast sets in and it does what its instincts tell it - it kills.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#53. I hunt chickens , men hunt me,All the chickens are just alike,and all the men are just alike.and in consequence, i am little bored,but if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life.I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#54. Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world.
Judith Kelman
#55. Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#56. It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau
#57. 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
D.J. MacHale
#58. When we see land as a community to which we belong,
we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved
by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined
in terms of things natural, wild, and free.
Aldo Leopold
#59. Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
Mark Twain
#60. GLOUCESTER
Now, good sir, what are you?
EDGAR
A most poor man made tame to fortune's blows,
Who by the art of known and feeling sorrows
Am pregnant to good pity.
William Shakespeare
#61. Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.
Orson Welles
#62. To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.
King James I
#63. If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
Socrates
#64. The attraction here is based on man's need to conquer and tame, but also to hoard and deprive others of the prize.
Francisco X Stork
#65. I wouldn't call it tamed, laddy-me-love. The lady of Pirate's Swoop shouldn't be tame.
Tamora Pierce
#66. We cannot tame the Lion of Judah. There is a mystery, a wonder, and, yes, even a wildness about God we cannot take from Him.
Beth Moore
#67. Clean of officious fence or hedge, Half-wild and wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white cliff-edge As when the Romans came.
Helen Simonson
#68. Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B.C. Forbes
#69. God created women only to tame men.
Voltaire
#70. You cannot tame the wind, stop the rain, nor calm a storm.
Edward Buchanan
#71. Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
William Strunk Jr.
#73. All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves or nature.
Bell Hooks
#74. A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.
Ovid
#75. Just remember that you are tougher than any problem. Just keep putting in your best and you shall tame the beast that is the JEE.
Paras Arora
#76. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#77. To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.
John Dryden
#78. 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.
Ivan Turgenev
#79. Don't settle your wild, find a man who doesn't want to tame it.
Nikki Rowe
#81. Hilary peered over her shoulder at Cam, letting her eyes lazily take him in, "See you soon, tiger."
They both watched as the door closed behind her.
Cam made a moaning sound with a wild expression across his face. "She's going to be fun to tame.
Stacey O'Neale
#82. Grace is wild. Grace unsettles everything. Grace overflows the banks. Grace messes up your hair. Grace is not tame.
Doug Wilson
#83. /summon EntityHorse~~~{Type:3, Tame:1} And
Mine Craft
#84. So he's tame,' said Estienne, and reached out tentatively, as though to pat a wild animal.
It was a question of which part of the animal he was patting. Damen cknocked his hand away. Estienne gave a yelp and snatched his hand back, nursing it against his chest.
'No that tame,' said Laurent.
C.S. Pacat
#85. Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#86. Girl of Emerald, no man can tame. Burn down the world, consumed by flames.
Betsy Schow
#87. So many went on a quest to tame her,
The only man to win her heart was the one
Who was also free.
Nikki Rowe
#88. Resilience isn't cultivated by avoiding stress, you see, but by learning how to tame and master it.
Jessica Joelle Alexander
#89. Love can tame the wildest.
Aesop
#90. It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.
Lev L. Spiro
#91. Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
George Herbert
#92. 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
Hozier
#93. 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?
Jon Stewart
#94. The challenge isn't to find better tools to lead a more productive life, it's learning to be mindful of the tools that have already taken root. Mindfulness while using technology is important, and therefore the future belongs to those who can tame their distractions.
Paul Jun
#95. I had a tame rat when I was a boy, and I loved that animal as only a boy would love an old water-rat
Jerome K. Jerome
#96. 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
#97. Walking and walking across the world he will gradually find consolation, and one day, when he is too fatigued to take another step, he will realize that he cannot escape sorrow, he will have to tame it, so it doesn't harass him.
Isabel Allende
#99. What value can we place on our parliamentary institutions if constituencies return only tame, docile and subservient members who try to stamp on every form of independent judgement?
Michael Dobbs
#100. She preferred her men less intense and less - well, just less. What she was looking for was control. This man wasn't tame enough for her liking.
Destiny Booze
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