Taming Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we…
— Georg Riedel
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Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of…
— Allan Bloom
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Happiness comes through taming the mind; without taming the mind there is no way to be happy
— Dalai Lama
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There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within…
— Peer Steinbruck
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It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get.
— Cesar Millan
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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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Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.
— Sigmar Gabriel
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When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
— Diane Cilento
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Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in…
— Dalai Lama
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After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings,…
— Jerry Saltz
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All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's…
— Margaret Atwood
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. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives,…
— Maurice Sendak
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And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
— Maurice Sendak
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I didn't need taming. I needed saving.
— Abbi Glines
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Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one…
— Jayne Ann Krentz
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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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The capture, taming, training and keeping of eagles is highly ritualized. Most of the birds, which have a life span of about 40 years, are…
— Stephen Kinzer
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Sorry I'm late. I just got done taming a wild honeymoon stallion for you guys. -Napoleon Dynamite
— Napoleon Dynamite
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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Taming Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Taming Quotes as follows: