Best Tamed Quotes
96 Tamed quotes by 71 unique authors
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Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are the…
— Guy Davenport
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The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The…
— Sigmund Freud
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When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These…
— C.S. Lewis
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Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
— Arthur Keith
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We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many…
— Sigmar Gabriel
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Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some…
— C.S. Lewis
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
— Nikki Giovanni
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
— Washington Irving
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'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A thing named is a thing tamed.
— Joanne Harris
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So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Can't all beasts be tamed?
— Robin McKinley
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And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised…
— Jane Yolen
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I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you…
— Elizabeth Moon
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What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to…
— Os Guinness
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Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take…
— Deb Caletti
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Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
— Margaret Mitchell
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Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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