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Quotes About Tamed

overconfidence is a direct consequence of features of System 1 that can be tamed—but not vanquished. The main obstacle is that subjective confidence is determined by the coherence of the story one has constructed, not by the quality and amount of the information that supports it.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.
~ Real Live Preacher
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.
~ Neal Shusterman
Never step back because you feel you cant, Give it the try hence emotions get tamed!break the comfort zone and be the unbreakable zone.
~ Err:509
unrivaled Master. "The secret society of brotherhood", who were the guardians of the universe were afraid as to what might this monster do if he is not tamed or captured. They used to remain tensed and think about how to get rid of this monster. No plan seemed to work on that monster. He was just
~ Alex Anderson
Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.
~ Aristotle
Patience is passion tamed.
~ Lyman Abbott
September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.
~ Rory Stewart
I have been tamed. My party days are well and truly behind me.
~ Jimmy White
Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
I have taken a terrible beating from the truth and feel tamed, wise and desperate, as if I had taken a short route to wisdom through a mirror, and cut myself badly on it as I passed through.
~ Derek Raymond
I was going to write down my experiences during the assault, but what's the point now? It's all been written before, so many glorified accounts, soldiers, warriors, heroes. No matter how grim a picture I paint, there will always be those who have bright excited eyes, who think War is romantic, exciting, a beast to be tamed.
~ Andy Remic
I said: He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much. But he is a Beast, said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, Cannot a Beast be tamed?
~ Robin McKinley
Cannot a Beast be tamed?
~ Robin McKinley
I was pretty wild as a kid. Football tamed me. It put me on the right path, got me focused.
~ Nikita Parris
For the show, it's really important that we remember that Lucifer is the Devil. It's important for Lucifer sometimes to remember that he's the Devil: to keep the notion that he is a wild animal that is seemingly being tamed but, at any moment, could snap.
~ Tom Ellis
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
~ Anonymous
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
~ Margaret Mitchell
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.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Greek word used to translate the Aramaic word for meekness, which Jesus used in the Prophetic Blessing, was the word used for an animal that had been tamed and brought under the control of the bit and reins of its master. Meekness is power under control!
~ John Hagee
Thus the mind is more present and at peace. So the clarity and peace of mind we feel after running is mostly because the wild horse is tired, not necessarily because it has been tamed.
~ Sakyong Mipham
I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke a cigarette thinking. I wonder what great things have come from those hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind - and it is only proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.
~ Ayn Rand
That internal beast is human nature. It cannot be killed; it can only be tamed. And even then, constant vigilance is required.
~ Jonah Goldberg
I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind—and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.
~ Ayn Rand