Tame Quotes

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

True, Culture, Sheep

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.
Robert Kennedy

Life, Ourselves, Gentle

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
Isadora Duncan

Here, Once, Wild

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
Spiro T. Agnew

Women, May, Difficult

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

Die, While, Born

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

Good, Rock, Hard

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

Once, Within, Drink

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
David Attenborough

Rather, Group, Popular

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

While, Republican, Leaders

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

Time, Jealous, Made

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.
Marilu Henner

Life, Stress, Important

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

Life, Golf, Hazards

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
Andrew Denton

Music, Art, May

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Time, Woman, Young

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

Different, Stuff, Interest

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

Work, Surely, Improves

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.
Susie Orbach

Perfect, Personal, Becoming

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

Sometimes, Manhattan, Particular

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home.
Michael Franti

Music, Home, Through

When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.
Jeff Ross

Art, Help, Lost

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
Abu Bakar Bashir

Today, Keep, Media

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

Great, Sea, Loved

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?
Dimitri Mitropoulos

Book, Lion, Orchestra

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

Person, Last, Hand

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

Famous, Tell, Matter

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

Life, Real, Through

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

Language, Avoid, Assertions

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

Thought, Actually, Bit

It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.
Meles Zenawi

Said, Surprise, Terrorism

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