Tamed Quotes
96 quotes by 76 authors
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There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
— Ella Maillart
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Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
— Jean Rostand
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Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous…
— Susan Sontag
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When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he…
— J. Frank Dobie
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Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what…
— Susan Sontag
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Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the…
— Colin McGinn
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I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through…
— Katy Perry
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No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them,…
— Sigmund Freud
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To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which can…
— Robert Thurman
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A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.
— Toni Bentley
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These masters of the universe must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk... The…
— Vince Cable
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Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy,…
— George Santayana
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Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire,…
— Alex Kozinski
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Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.
— Morgan Brittany
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When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an…
— Jay Griffiths
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Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.
— Paulo Coelho
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Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.
— Anthony Head
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Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who Wrote These Tamed Quotes
76 authors contributed a total of 96 Tamed Quotes, led by these top contributors: