Quotes About Tame

What value can we place on our parliamentary institutions if constituencies return only tame, docile and subservient members who try to stamp on every form of independent judgement?

This has always been the temptation of the people of God--to tame him. He increases mystery; we desire to remove it. He introduces paradox; we seek to solve it. We, like the Israelites before us, want a God who is understandable and predictable and safe.

There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity

Over the plains of Cuba, Roams the mosquito wild, No one can catch or tame her, For she is Nature's child. With Yellow Jack she fills herself, And none her pleasure mar, Till Major Reed does capture her, And puts her in a jar.

Whatever else the ancient Israelites believed about their God, he was not a tame God.

Every sleuth ought to have a tame half-wit, to make him feel clever.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Tame the assertiveness. Those of us who carry the Western "can-do" spirit, especially those of us from the United States, need to learn how to go into the world to serve rather than to lead. Although I've referred to the positive power of Western optimism, we need to tame it.

Trust does not cancel our mind but circumscribes it and tames it—and so we do not succumb to fretting or anxious thoughts of being unsure.

Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?