Tamed Quotes

• You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Dog, Responsibility

  "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

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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 them. -Carrie Bradshaw

  Candace Bushnell

  Running, Women, Being Single

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  Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.181, Penguin

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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

  Inspirational, Men, Forever

  "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

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• For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.

  William Shakespeare

  Taming, Shrews, Born

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.341, Wordsworth Editions

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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

  Sound, Leaves Of Grass, World

  "Song of Myself " l. 1332 (written 1855)

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• Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

  Arthur Keith

  Strong, Desire, Reason

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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  And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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• We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Believe, Writing, Spirit

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Ocean, Water, Boards

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. August 15, 2002.

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• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Sweet Love, Book

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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• This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Kindness, Wife

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. [208]

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• Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Novelists, Ruling

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 30, 2012

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• Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Mean

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.445, Oxford University Press

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• Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
  Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
  And for thy maintenance commits his body
  To painful labour both by sea and land,
  To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
  Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
  And craves no other tribute at thy hands
  But love, fair looks and true obedience;
  Too little payment for so great a debt.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Home

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 147

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• Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, Thinking, Race

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.504, Courier Corporation

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• Dreamers can't be tamed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dreamer

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 17, 2012

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• Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

  Morgan Brittany

  Bullying, Snakes, Spite

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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 held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.

  Dan Wells

  Eye, Angel, Soul

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.265, Macmillan

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• You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Risk, Tears, Ifs

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• What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?

  Danielle LaPorte

  What If, Desire, Beacons

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• There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Knives

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.111

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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

  Dirty, Self, Circles

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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 you and make you happy. But I can’t be tamed or topped. Don’t mistake indulgence for weakness.

  Sylvia Day

  Mistake, Weakness, Forget

  FaceBook post by Sylvia Day from Apr 22, 2012

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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 from our adult vocabularies. These words are the pornography of innocence, words which adults no longer use with other adults, and so we laugh at them and consign them to the nursery, fear masking as cynicism. These are the words that were forged in the earth, air, fire, and water of human existence, and the words are: Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Courage. Honor. Truth.

  Jane Yolen

  Hate, Book, Fire

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