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Quotes About Tamed

I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.
~ Dan Wells
Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.
~ Morgan Brittany
Motive makes a fine horse when tamed by understanding and bridled by wisdom.
~ Felix Dennis
Contain yourselves from the ungoverned wildness of pride, the sluggish voluptuousness of luxury, and the false name of knowledge: that so the wild beasts may be tamed, the cattle broken to the yoke, the serpents, harmless.
~ St. Augustine
Metal. In some ways, that was the true mark of mankind. Man tamed the stones, the bones of the earth below. Man tamed the fire, that ephemeral, consuming soul of life. And combining the two, he drew forth the marrow of the rocks themselves, then made molten tools.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I am beginning to understand, " said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
it isn't a bad thing to remember that you have some wildness in you, that not every inch of your soul is honorable and responsible and presentable and tamped and tamed.
~ Brian Morton
Machines are the concealed wishes of actants which have tamed forces so effectively that they no longer look like forces
~ Bruno Latour
I unlocked her cage, but you, my thieving friend, aim to set her free. Be careful with what you do. Wild things are never tamed.
~ C.W. Gortner
I unlocked her cage, but you, my thieving friend, aim to set her free. Be careful with what you do. Wild things are never tamed." Boy's
~ C.W. Gortner
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.
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
Because the bell curve ignores large deviations, cannot handle them, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty. Its
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
The Flamingo, as Siegel named his hotel, was a castle in the wasteland with a lot of tamed water nearby. And
~ Tim Powers
Dierdre was one of a pair of enormous common toads that I had found, tamed with comparative ease, and established in the tiny walled garden below the veranda. Here they lived a blameless life among the geraniums and tangerine trees, venturing up onto the veranda when the lights were lit to take their share of the insect life.
~ Gerald Durrell
Yes, I'm a man and everyone knows men are great hairy beasts scarcely tamed by civilization -Jermyn, Duke of Northcliff to Amy, Princess Beaumontaigne
~ Christina Dodd
All tamed things are made a bit ridiculous in the process, you know.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Entropy is only ever tamed by the counteracting investment of active energy to bring some order and structure to your week.
~ Unknown
The girl's body dropped into the rhythm of a canter —and what girl doesn't love a horse, doesn't already know how to ride? The knowledge lurks in them, breath and bone, part of an ancient copact between big grazing beasts and the women who patiently tamed them, knowing brutality might work for a short while but true partnership can never be forced.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
As far as feminism is concerned ... the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. Ewww! And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril.
~ Unknown
OJ says our father lives somewhere between the self-satisfaction that his success has made us soft and disgust that we are unacquainted with the brutal intensity of a world that he has effectively tamed for us.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
Patience is passion tamed.
~ Lyman Abbott
She would remember that voice as long as she lived, Bernadette thought. It was low and slightly harsh, as if he was hoarse from yelling at the top of his lungs all day. Yet there was a deep resonance to it, as well. It seemed to come from the soles of his feet, rumbling up through that long, tough-looking body and somehow being muted by the time it reached his throat. No, she revised the whimsical reflection; not muted, but tamed a little, civilised for the benefit of those who might hear it.
~ Unknown