Best Tamed Sayings
96 Tamed quotes by 71 unique authors
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There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms…
— Larry Niven
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I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours…
— Ayn Rand
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I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
— Walt Whitman
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Take care of him, Soteria. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man.
— Neal Shusterman
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No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others.…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and…
— Dan Wells
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with…
— Candace Bushnell
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I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he…
— Robin McKinley
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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. "Roland would have never touched me like that." Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment…
— Neal Shusterman
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Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing…
— William S. Burroughs
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Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep…
— Sylvia Day
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Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part…
— Stanley Kunitz
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I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
— Walt Whitman
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You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with…
— Hilary Mantel
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Dreamers can't be tamed.
— Paulo Coelho
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Patience is passion tamed.
— Lyman Abbott
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One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
— J M Coetzee
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Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution
— Tony Benn
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September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in…
— Rory Stewart
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Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours…
— Aristotle
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