Top 327 Tame Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

You can tame feral cats, but you are never gonna get them like a cat that's been socialized at a very young age.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.

Tame Impala is more about impact than innovation, sure, but the music still stuns on contact.

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.

I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

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.

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

Coming to Atlanta was like being in a country club. It was really tame in the locker room in WCW compared to New York.

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

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

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

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

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.

I don't like the idea that I'm a one-trick pony, even if I am! No matter what else I do, I have to make sure that 'Elephant' isn't Tame Impala's biggest song anywhere.

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

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

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.