Quotes About Taming

Blessed are the ones who have become spiritually domesticated; the ones who have tamed the wild animal energy within them, the passions and compulsions of our lower nature.

Making up his mind is a chore no less strenuous to the average Libran male than taming a wild buffalo...

Dispelling fear. Taming what was scary not by hiding it, not by blocking it or burying it, not by keeping it secret, but by reminding themselves, and everyone else, to choose love, choose openness, to think and be calm.

At the end of the play, the shrew is tamed (...). All good fun. Under the guise of comedy, the most horrible acts are perpetrated on a woman. It's a nightmare, because the sexism is so completely accepted - It is simply "the way it is". Nowhere is it questioned.

Hawks aren't social animals like dogs or horses; they understand neither coercion nor punishment. The only way to tame them is through positive reinforcement with gifts of food. You want the hawk to eat the food you hold – it's the first step in reclaiming her that will end with you being hunting partners.

My walks with the hawk were stressful, requiring endless vigilance, and they were wearing me away. As the hawk became tamer I was growing wilder. Fear was contagious: it rose unbidden in my heart as people approached us. I was no longer certain if the hawk bated because she was frightened of what she saw, or if the terror she felt was mine.

DOMESTICABLE ANIMALS ARE ALL ALIKE; EVERY UNDOMESTICABLE animal is undomesticable in its own way.

I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts — cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions pawing the air and teetering on small stools. I deplore zoos and anything to do with animal confinement or restraint.

But emotions were, indeed, wild horses and they demanded to be heard. Brida let them run free for a while until they grew tired

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.

For I am born to tame you, Kate, And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate Comfortable as other household Kates.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness, And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour. He that knows better how to tame a shrew, Now let him speak. 'Tis charity to show.

For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.

Accepting him, I find, is the best way to tame him.

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.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Every kind of animal can be tamed, but not the tongue of man.

Parece reconhecer-se muito mais facilmente o fogo depois de domesticado.

As Robert Bly laments in Iron John, "Some women want a passive man if they want a man at all; the church wants a tamed man—they are called priests; the university wants a domesticated man—they are called tenure-track people; the corporation wants a . . . sanitized, hairless, shallow man.

Well, lion tamers are probably difficult to live with—I suppose there's no small amount of testosterone involved in taming lions," Vargas said, shrugging.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

So where did you get your information? Werewolves for Dummies? No, wait, you watched Underworld? Or maybe you were raised by wolves? Stop mewhen I'm warm." - Shella

Quiero domar el dolor como si fuera un animal salvaje.