You Can't Tame Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

Karen Salmansohn

#3. The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

C.S. Lewis

#4. So what if you can see
The darkest side of me.
No one will ever change this animal I have become.
Help me believe
It's not the real me.
Somebody help me tame this animal I have become.

Three Days Grace

#5. 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

#6. Now I have other demands on my time that are not flexible, I just can't wander into the studio at 2 A.M. like I used to. If I have an idea in the middle of the night, I will go and get the bare bones down, but mostly you can learn to tame it to your needs.

Jamie Cullum

#7. ...a person can't tame God.
He's wild as a lion.
He'll haunt you.

Pamela Porter

#8. 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.

Ross Macdonald

#9. Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Aeschylus

#10. My fiance and I had a few problems working through some of the things that he saw me say and do on the 'Surreal Life.' Considering the company that I was in, Ron Jeremy and Trishelle from 'The Real World,' I think I was pretty tame.

Traci Bingham

#11. Darling,
When they try
To tame you
Turn to the sun, tilt your head
And be thankful you
Never turned into one
of them.

Nikki Rowe

#12. 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?

Cassandra Clare

#13. You probably had more adventures today than I'll have in a lifetime. Walking must seem tame to you."
"Elle, you're more of an adventure than anything that's ever happened to me.

Jill Shalvis

#14. You put quite a fight for a tame kitty

Erin Hunter

#15. And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we're on a grand adventure when we've completely forgotten what an adventure is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. The more tremendous the divinity is represented, the more tame and submissive do men become his ministers: And the more unaccountable the measures of acceptance required by him, the more necessary does it become to abandon our natural reason, and yield to their ghostly guidance and direction.

David Hume

#18. This time, I invited it in. I felt the darkness tame my impetuous nature, allowing me to feed slowly on the hatred and control it. The coldness flowed through my veins and to the lengths of each limb. The icy darkness pooled in my chest and chilled my heart.

Leigh Goff

#19. Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.

Daniel Kahneman

#20. Wild inside; raging,
writhing - yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But
outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly - baa, baa, baa.

Aldous Huxley

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

Aimee Mann

#22. 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.

Frances Sargent Osgood

#23. 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

#24. 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.

Annie Dillard

#25. Men cheat. They lie. They love porn. The don't respect you and don't care if they hurt you. It's the fucking breaks. Women divorce 'em 'cause we can't tame 'em or train 'em or control 'em like we do household pets. End of story.

Terry McMillan

#26. The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can't handle.

Charles Martin

#27. 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.

C.S. Lewis

#28. 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.

Jack Hanna

#29. What is there to say about love ? You could sweep up all the words and stack them in the gutter and love wouldn't be any different, wouldn't feel any different, the hurt in the heart, the headachy desire that hardly submits to language. What we can't tame we talk about.

Jeanette Winterson

#30. The sword is like a serpent. You can try to tame it, but it is venomous and will often bite the hand that holds it.

Matthew Harffy

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Socrates

#34. I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, tame the wilderness by describing it, challenge God by learning His hundred names.

Penelope Lively

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. She vied so fast, protesting oath after oath,
that in a twink she won me to her love.
O, you are novices. 'Tis a world to see
How tame, when men and women are alone,
A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.

William Shakespeare

#38. With you, it's different.
I can see the rest of my life before my eyes and that scares me a little. Men don't tame my wild heart but somehow I crossed your path and have never been the same since.

Nikki Rowe

#39. Before you can tame your genius spirit, you have to find her.

Carolyn Elliott

#40. Even if you hate me, Zero ... I will tame that beast in you ... as many times as necessary. If you haven't completely lost your sanity ... I won't let you die. Hate vampires, hate me ... at least that means you haven't given up!" Yuki said to Zero. "How can I hate you?" Zero questioned Yuki.

Matsuri Hino

#41. Howling, are you?" the Indian said. "There it is for you, then. That's what happens, that's what they say: There's not a wolf alive that can't tame a man.

Denis Johnson

#42. We've forgotten that chasing happiness or peace only causes it to seem further away. It's a little like wild kittens. You can chase them all day long and not catch them. But, if you sit quietly and allow them to come to you, you will tame them in time.

Simon Gray

#43. Tame my heart
but give me wings
so I can fly from here

to you.

Rebecca Harris

#44. 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.

Saint John Chrysostom

#45. You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame

William Shakespeare

#46. Lets dedicate ourselves to what the ancient greeks wrote so many years ago, to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that

Robert F. Kennedy

#47. 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.

Thalia

#48. 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.

Juliana Hatfield

#49. There was very little man left within his eyes - she knew a beast when she saw one, knew short, simple words worked best, most often to tame or quiet an impending attack. But in this case
"More," she breathed.

Erin Kellison

#50. I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could know them. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.

Eve Ensler

#51. Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits. It is as if he develops immoralist psychology in order to tame his own nature, to keep his own greatest vice in check.

John Carroll

#52. I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#53. Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am /
And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

Thomas Wyatt

#54. 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

#55. 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.

Ian McEwan

#56. 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.

Frances O'Connor

#57. Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.

Tug McGraw

#58. They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#59. It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.

Philippe Petit

#60. My books are so tame!

Sarah Dessen

#61. Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#62. Mama says the Beardsleys follow her around like dogs, but they don't. They follow her like tame wolves.
I thought Ian said it wasn't possible to tame wolves.
It isn't.

Diana Gabaldon

#63. Good Lord," he muttered "They pick a mouse to tame a cat.

Hannah Kent

#64. There was always one. Every village seemed to have one young woman who believed her beauty could somehow magically protect her from a monster. Somehow, they would be special enough to tame the Beast.
They were always wrong.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#65. Does the written word tame passions? Or subdue the forces of nature? Or does it find a harmony with the inhumanity of the universe? Or incubate a violence, held back but always ready to spring, to claw?

Italo Calvino

#66. In order to tame death, they refuse to completely enjoy life. In rejecting complete enjoyment, they are half-dead in advance - and that with no guarantee that their sacrifice will actually benefit them when all is done.

Tom Robbins

#67. The land's like a woman. Tame her gently, treat her good, and you'll never be without her. Strip her bare, and she'll be colder than a whore's heart.

Bonnie K. Winn

#68. 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.

William Shakespeare

#69. 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.

David Hewson

#70. Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

Mark Twain

#71. Storytellers ought not be too tame. They ought to be wild creatures who function adequately in society. They are best in disguise. If they lose all their wildness, they cannot give us the truest joys.

Ben Okri

#72. Hair away from her face, as though one hand could not possibly tame all that hair. "How nice to meet you," she said to Ifemelu, smiling, as they shook hands, her hand small,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#73. Talk to me. Say something, anything," he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal.
"There's nothing to say."
He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. "Why did you kiss me?

Stephanie Witter

#74. 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.

Jane Leavy

#75. No! That's not the way! This is not the time! Hold it back! Tame it! Don't waste it! Send it back! It'll come when you call!

Terry Pratchett

#76. He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the most annoying manner of showing up when we least want Him; of confronting us in the strangest ways.

Thomas Merton

#77. Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.

Veronica Rossi

#78. 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.

William Shakespeare

#79. You are in trouble,' I said slowly, emphasizing each word. 'Enormous trouble. Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home.

Stephenie Meyer

#80. Because you cannot tame something so happily wild...

Emily Hughes

#81. Being married to her must be very much like living with a tiger, a not very tame tiger at that.

J. E. Nightingale

#82. He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down
and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

C.S. Lewis

#83. He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

Jack London

#84. An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.

Mary Deasy