Quotes About Taming
If this elephant of mind is bound on all sides by the cord of mindfulness, All fear disappears and complete happiness comes. All enemies: all the tigers, lions, elephants, bears, serpents [of our emotions];2 And all the keepers of hell; the demons and the horrors, All of these are bound by the mastery of your mind, And by the taming of that one mind, all are subdued, Because from the mind are derived all fears and immeasurable sorrows.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
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"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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For example, the main reason zebras never got domesticated is that they're ultra-high-fear. Zebras may bite people and not let go. They injure more people in zoos than the tigers do.15
~ Temple Grandin
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The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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The capture, taming, training and keeping of eagles is highly ritualized. Most of the birds, which have a life span of about 40 years, are caught when very young - either snatched from a nest or trapped in a baited net.
~ Stephen Kinzer
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He is taming chipmunks." – Cara
~ Terry Goodkind
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Love is a complex, wild feelings that can't be tamed using the whip of what is right and what is not.
~ Mya Robarts, The V Girl
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I want somebody to tame me; I am too independent; and you would never be able to, I know.
~ Thomas Hardy
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It wouldn't do, Mr Oak. I want somebody to tame me; I am too independent; and you would never be able to, I know. Oak cast his eyes down the field in a way implying that it was useless to attempt argument.
~ Thomas Hardy
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There's no doubt that there will be many trials and tribulations along the way in taming space for the benefit of all, unmasking its truths and using the boundless resources available to us. Taking a chance allows us to seek new horizons -- and we all benefit from being horizon hunters.
~ Buzz Aldrin
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Admit it. If we were characters in a (super hot) romance novel, you'd be the vulnerable babe in need of a protector, and I'd be the hardcore alpha villain everyone secretly yearns to tame. Spoiler alert: I'm willing to let you give the taming thing your best shot. Because I'm a giver.
~ Gena Showalter
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For long ages, too, no notice whatever was taken of the criminals sin; he was regarded as harmful, not guilty, and looked upon as a piece of destiny; and the criminal on his side took his punishment as a piece of destiny which had overtaken him, and bore it with the same fatalism ... In general we may say that punishment tames the man, but does not make him better.
~ Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
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Walking and walking across the world he will gradually find consolation, and one day, when he is too fatigued to take another step, he will realize that he cannot escape sorrow, he will have to tame it, so it doesn't harass him.
~ Isabel Allende
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Amazement could go no further. If Phryne had ridden in on a unicorn he would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Felmington. Well, no, not a unicorn. Not Phryne. A dragon, perhaps. He was sure that she could tame a dragon.
~ Kerry Greenwood
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I cannot lie to you," he whispered. "You know my thoughts. You know the beast that dwells inside. I try to be gentle with you, to listen to you. Always that wildness breaks free, but you tame me. Raven, please, I need you. And you need me. Your body is weak, I can feel your hunger. Your mind is fragmented--allow me to heal you. Your body cries out for mine as mine does for yours. Kiss me, Raven. Do not give up on us.
~ Christine Feehan
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The solitary man is a modified savage, accepted by civilization. He who wanders most is most alone; hence his continual change of place. To remain anywhere long, suffocated him with the sense of being tamed. He spent his life in moving on.
~ Victor Hugo
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.
~ Proverb
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power is the by-product of understanding. So the Greeks said that Orpheus played the lyre with such sympathy that wild beasts were tamed by the hand on the strings. They did not suggest that he got this gift by setting out to be a lion tamer.
~ Jacob Bronowski
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They could be trained and tended. But they were of the wild, and the wild they needed for their spirit.
~ Nora Roberts
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No, he didn't want to tame her any more than he wanted to tame the land. But by God, it was time for acceptance, on both sides.
~ Nora Roberts
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Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog.
~ Paula Wall
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Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.
~ Winston Graham, Demelza
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Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a brutish social world.
~ Heather Mac Donald
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Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, where a woman can count on stability; our legal and moral codes that try to abolish violence and promote permanence of ownership and enforce contracts—those represent the primary female strategy, the taming of the male.
~ Orson Scott Card
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