Tame Quotes
225 quotes by 182 authors
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Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit…
— David Attenborough
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Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.
— Tug McGraw
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild…
— Charles Galton Darwin
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The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.
— Max Stirner
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Love hath made thee a tame snake
— William Shakespeare
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You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame
— William Shakespeare
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
— B. C. Forbes
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
— Ben Jonson
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I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.
— Douglas Adams
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Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.
— Lydia M. Child
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use…
— George Washington
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Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.
— Miuccia Prada
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No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.
— William E. Conway, Jr.
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What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.
— Robert Breault
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Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.
— Elvis Presley
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They are very tame to me. God bless Noel, I'm sure he'll always have a spot on 'Bob's Full House', but I search for something…
— Steven Morrissey
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I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
— Bryan Procter
Who Wrote These Tame Quotes
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