Taming Quotes

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Nenia Campbell
“Young girls chased after bad boys for the same reason that riders broke wild horses; they wanted the rush of taming something, of bringing that raw energy to heel.”
Nenia Campbell, Escape

“Date a girl who travels they said, but please, know that you will never tame her nor keep her. Because she’ll never sign her letters off with a “your truly” - but always with a “see you when I see you”
lauren klarfeld

Rebecca K. O'Connor
“Breaking, in modern psychology, 'learned helplessness.' This is where you crush an animal's desire to fight. Why is it that we believe broken things are tamed possessions?”
Rebecca K. O'Connor, Lift

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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Paula McLain
“You can take a cub from the savannah as they have, and raise it like a pet if you like. In a cage, as some do, or running free like Paddy. You can feed it fresh meat so it never learns to hunt and brush its coat so it carries a human smell wherever it goes—but know that what you’ve done is twist something natural into something else. And you can never trust on unnatural thing. - Charles Clutterbuck”
Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

David Hewson
“A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.”
A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Then only things you learn are the things you tame," said the fox. "People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends. If you want a friend, tame me!”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“Fear and taming are interconnected, only the (re) in recycle of rat races is missing”
Alan Maiccon

Scarlett Scott
“Only think of this,” Hattie said, “you have a far better chance of taming Rayne than anyone has of bringing your disreputable brother to heel.”
Scarlett Scott, Earl of Every Sin