Quotes About Subdued

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...

It's like training dogs. You want the dog to obey you, but you can't have real respect for a dog that always obeys you. You want a dog that occasionally goes over the wall or bites the postman without your permission; you want to be reminded that you command a subdued yet wild animal, not a crawler. A man should be strong enough to kill you with his bare hands.

There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige.

If their purpose and actions are those of mortal men, they will fail. But if it is from God, how can you possibly stop them? You will only find yourselves fighting against our Lord Jehovah!" To Ezra's astonishment, the entire Council around the head table looked subdued.

You can weave your life so long—only so long, and then a thing in the world out of your control will tug at one vital thread and leave you patternless and subdued.

You can weave your life so long—only so long," Coren says to Sybel, "and then a thing in the world out of your control will tug at one vital thread and leave you patternless and subdued.

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

This is the way the world will end, not with a bang, but a whimper.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

HIs slower mind could not keep pace with her swift reactions; his emotions, not easily aroused, were still less easily subdued. Always he felt himself left far behind her, dull, clumsy, insensitive, too fond, too gross, too awkward.

She is made for moderate emotions, ash-blonde sorrow.

Och vad är månskenet? Solsken i andra hand. Försvagat, förfalskat.

So you're saying that while my father and I were asleep, you found the reliquary—all by yourself—and then single-handedly subdued Lady Nore?" He laughs. "You might have woken me. I could have done something, surely. Applauded at the right moments? Held your bag?" I am flattered into a small smile. "So," he asks, "what orders ought I to give the guards, now that you're in charge?

There was one good side to my male relations. Since they were married to my sisters, they had all learned to be swiftly subdued by sarcasm.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

Tracy Morgan is subdued. I'm cool. I'm chilled out.

I was always a laid-back, subdued person, and I just try to let that speak through my music.

Some Kentucky fans are a little more subdued.

It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further.

I appreciate a subdued performance, typically.

From old Ikshváku's15line he came, Known to the world by Ráma's name: With soul subdued, a chief of might

The sunset of all emotions, myself yellowing, subdued to grey sadness in my external self-awareness