Tame Quotes

“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”
― Jacques Derrida

“If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”
― Socrates

“He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.”
― Jack London, White Fang

“It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

“If we cannot tame the valkyries of our emotions and restrain the burgeoning crankiness of our actions, we have to empower our mind, at some point, and let time flow on the waves of remission and compassion… and loosen up. ("Transcendental meditation")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If we can tame or restrain our addiction to the blinding overabundance of technical widgets, we can “tool down” our mental frame. It’s, by opening our mind to the infinite potential of the world around, that we can take time for the others and learn to listen and interpret their captivating stories. ("Should I shave first?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If we feel we cannot strike the right notes anymore and are not capable of forging ahead through the enticing pastures of our dreams, we must wisely put the treadmill on hold. So, let’s tame the inflated demands of greed for a while and look at our deeper self with compassion.("The empty Mirror")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets oneself be tamed...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Nothing's perfect," sighed the fox. "My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens; people hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all men are just alike. So I'm rather bored. But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Other footsteps send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. And then, look! You see the wheat fields over there? I don't eat bread. For me, wheat is no use whatever. Wheat fields say nothing to me. Which is sad. But you have hair the color of gold. So it will be wonderful, once you've tamed me! The wheat, which is golden, will remind me of you. And I'll love the sound of the wind in the wheat...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories

“Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.”
― Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water

“You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child's talent which he has sought to kindle suddenly bursts forth, when the boy puts aside his wooden sword, slingshot, bow-and-arrow and other childish games, when he begins to forge ahead, when the seriousness of the work begins to transform the rough-neck into a delicate, serious and an almost ascetic creature, when his face takes on an intelligent, deeper and more purposeful expression - then a teacher's heart laughs with happiness and pride. It is his duty and responsibility to control the raw energies and desires of his charges and replace them with calmer, more moderate ideals. What would many happy citizens and trustworthy officials have become but unruly, stormy innovators and dreamers of useless dreams, if not for the effort of their schools? In young beings there is something wild, ungovernable, uncultured which first has to be tamed. It is like a dangerous flame that has to be controlled or it will destroy. Natural man is unpredictable, opaque, dangerous, like a torrent cascading out of uncharted mountains. At the start, his soul is a jungle without paths or order. And, like a jungle, it must first be cleared and its growth thwarted. Thus it is the school's task to subdue and control man with force and make him a useful member of society, to kindle those qualities in him whose development will bring him to triumphant completion.”
― Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel

“Golf is probably a CIA psyop. Think about it. Golf is the only thing that tames the wild FloridaMan. It turns even the hilariously hostile into the docile.”
― Jarod Kintz, To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

“And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we’re on a grand adventure when we’ve completely forgotten what an adventure is.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“The first to tame the other, becomes his conqueror. The one who teaches one to tame, is the tamer.”
― Alan Maiccon

“You broke me,
but I am still wild.”
― L.M. Browning, Drive Through the Night

“With the delicacy of a flower,
love tames the most aloof hearts.”
― Augusto Branco

“I've finally decided to write about profit for a change
But before I really started I already started to feel lame
Baby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Your mind is like a wild horse that keeps wrecking your life. The same horse can be of immense value and help you win races if you learn how to tame it.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“I wish I could stop trying to tame the wild God”
― Jaco Strydom

“I’m just trying to understand the rider, so I can better deal with the horse.”
― Rae Knightly, Ben Archer and the Star Rider

“The wild heart can tame anything, even a lion.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Tame the tamable while you are still able.”
― DON SANTO

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will make everything that came before look tame.”
― Steven Magee

“I think it's civilization [that] makes us violent.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

“Tame the time, before it tames you.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

“And he said...

...know that nuts will never tame their thoughts.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“What crushes a man weakens him, what angers a man strengthens him, but what softens a man makes him behave.”
― Criss Jami