Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
Can't all beasts be tamed?
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.
It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man.
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.
We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.
all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.
These 'masters of the universe' must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk. The Tories won't say anything about the current crisis as they are completely in the pockets of the hedge funds.
What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.
A named thing is a tamed thing.
I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
The past can be tamed and controlled.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
Dreamers can't be tamed.
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.
Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.
I have been tamed. My party days are well and truly behind me.
You got barn cats and you want to make them tamed, you need to get them as kittens.
Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
It's a shame that gays who ought to be pushing boundaries have been domesticated and tamed and turned into pets by the Progressive Left.
I've gotten stopped for reckless eyeballing, for staring too hard. These officers think they're Tarzan and this is a jungle, that all the animals need to be tamed.
Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
Take care of him, Soteria. 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. (Takeshi)
Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and unruly and must be tamed, trimmed and tinted to within an inch of its life before it can be allowed to roam freely in the public eye.
Women want to be tamed.
Patience is passion tamed.
You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.
Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.
I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?
We can't be tamed at all. We've never been that kind of group. We always used to talk about how our image was as big as our sound.
God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.
You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can’t be tamed or topped. Don’t mistake indulgence for weakness.
The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.
What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.
We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.
I was pretty wild as a kid. Football tamed me. It put me on the right path, got me focused.
No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.
Keep in mind, I'm not allowed to be tough. I'm tamed.
No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution
Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.
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