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225 Tame quotes by 175 unique authors

Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks… — Unknown Author
Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America and domesticate the… — Doug Peacock
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills… — C.S. Lewis
I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion? — Dimitris Mitropoulos
I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my… — Ross Macdonald
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death… — Zygmunt Bauman
Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse. — Georges Bizet
First off, LARDASS, you neglected to include a sign-off, forcing me to create one for you. I tried to create one that captured the spirit… — Dan Savage
Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will… — Saint John Chrysostom
It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy… — John Greenleaf Whittier
The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. — William Strunk, Jr.
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all. — Bernard Moitessier
Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse. — Pope Julius II
It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles. — Lev L. Spiro
God is God, He is not tame and domesticated like we sometimes (try to) make Him. — Edward T Welch
Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly — Elmer Diktonius
Until your personality has exhausted its obsession with running the show, your soul isn’t given the space to express itself. Your personality can be threatened… — Corinne McLaughlin
Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were… — Rudyard Kipling
Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on the corpses of… — Nikos Kazantzakis
A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming… — Henry Adams
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural… — Henry David Thoreau

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