Tame Quotes

1. "I could never be what she wanted. She thought I was like Cage and the right girl could tame me. It wasn't about that. I didn't need taming. I needed fucking saving."
Author: Abbi Glines

2. "The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter."
Author: Adam Clarke

3. "Women have married because it was necessary, in order to survive economically, in order to have children who would not suffer economic deprivation or social ostracism, in order to remain respectable, in order to do what was expected of women because coming out of "abnormal" childhoods they wanted to feel "normal," and because heterosexual romance has been represented as the great female adventure, duty, and fulfillment. We may faithfully or ambivalently have obeyed the institution, but our feelings - and our sensuality - have not been tamedor contained within it."
Author: Adrienne Rich

4. "In cio', ci allineiamo, non si sa quanto consapevoli, a un'idea di fondo, squisitamente barbara, che in teoria non condividiamo, ma in realta' pratichiamo senza nessuna difficolta': il senso delle cose non alberga in un loro tratto originario e autentico, ma nella traccia che da esse sprigiona quando entrano in connessione con altri pezzi di mondo."
Author: Alessandro Baricco

5. "They were untamed, like thunder and lightning in a glass jar. You just knew, sooner or later, the jar would shatter into pieces."
Author: Alyxandra Harvey

6. "No estás de acuerdo con mi misión. Lo comprendo en la medida que es posible comprender a alguien con quien estoy completamente en desacuerdo."
Author: Brandon Sanderson

7. "Y cuando te estés secando, recordarás a la vieja y a la joven que te sonrieron, abrazadas, antes de salir juntas, abrazadas: te repites que siempre, cuando están juntas, hacen exactamente lo mimo: se abrazan, sonríen, comen, hablan, entran, salen, al mismo tiempo, como si una imitara a la otra, como si de la voluntad de una dependiese la existencia de la otra."
Author: Carlos Fuentes

8. "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."
Author: Dan Wells

9. "Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you've built a stone wall against it, set out the armed guards to keep it from touching you. The real trick is not to let it in, but to hold on. To understand that the heart is as wide and vast as the universe, but that we come to know it best from here, this place is gravity and stability, where out feet can still touch ground."
Author: Deb Caletti

10. "She preferred her men less intense and less—well, just less. What she was looking for was control. This man wasn't tame enough for her liking."
Author: Destiny Booze

11. "Quanto alla felicità, la maggioranza di noi riesce a resisterle; I'infelicità è ben altrimenti insidiosa. L'avete assaporata? Non ne sarete mai sazi; la cercherete con avidità e, preferibilmente, là dove non si trova; e allora là la proietterete, visto che senza infelicità tutto vi sembrerebbe inutile e opaco. Ovunque essa si trovi, scaccia il mistero o lo rende luminoso. L'infelicità che è sapore e chiave delle cose, accidente e ossessione, capriccio e necessità, vi farà amare I'apparenza in ciò che questa ha di più potente, di più durevole e di più vero, e lì vi terrà per sempre avvinti perché, « intensa » per natura, è, come ogni « intensità », servitù, assoggettamento."
Author: Emil Cioran

12. "How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith."
Author: Erwin Raphael McManus

13. "Girando sempre su se stessi, vedendo e facendo sempre le stesse cose, si perde l'abitudine di esercitare la propria intelligenza e lentamente tutto si chiude, si indurisce, si attrofizza come un muscolo."
Author: Fabio Volo

14. "God's Word will never pass away, but looking back to the Old Testament and since the time of Christ, with tears we must say that because of a lack of fortitude and faithfulness on the part of God's people, God's Word has many times been allowed to be bent, to conform to the surrounding, passing, changing culture of that moment rather than to stand as the inerrant Word of God judging the form of the world spirit and the surrounding culture of that moment. In the name of The Lord Jesus Christ, may our children and grandchildren not say that such can be said about us."
Author: Francis August Schaeffer

15. "The earth was quiet around him, but alive. He felt it through the soles of his feet when he walked. The vibrancy of the forest streamed into him, strengthening him. But there was less of it than there should be. The world had changed, and was still changing. It was being tamed, losing its feral wildness and strength. Alongside it, his power was dimming as well. He was still unmatched, but there were blind spots in his communion with the earth, and those blind spots were growing, shutting him off bit by bit, reducing him. The realms of men were expanding, scouring the earth, parsing it into meaningless plots and fields, breaking up the magic polarities of the wilderness... That which made him so powerful, his connection to the earth, was also becoming his only weakness. In a cold rage, he walked. As he passed, the trees spoke to him, but even the woodsy voices of the naiads and the dryads was dimming. Their echo was confused and broken, divided."
Author: G. Norman Lippert

16. "A Novilíngua diferia da maior parte das outras línguas porque o seu vocabulário ia diminuindo em vez de aumentar todos os anos. Cada redução era um ganho, pois quanto menor a área de escolha, menor a tentação de pensar. Como fim último, esperava-se atingir uma linguagem emitida pela laringe, sem passar pelos centros nervosos superiores. Objectivo esse, francamente admitido no termo de Novilíngua "patofalar", que significava "grasnar como um pato". (...) Desde que as opiniões grasnadas fossem ortodoxas, o termo era perfeitamente laudatório; quando o Times se referia a um dos oradores do Partido caracterizando-o como "duploextrabom patofalante" estava a fazer-lhe um elogio caloroso e extremamente apreciado."
Author: George Orwell

17. "Segretamente o no, è necessario divenire tutt'altro oppure cessare di essere."
Author: Georges Bataille

18. "Es imposible escribir la verdadera historia de la vida de una persona. Supera el poder de la literatura. El relato completo de cualquier vida sería absolutamente aburrido además de absolutamente increíble."
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer

19. "He'd forgotten just how beautiful she was.She was wearing a plain gown the color of weak, milky tea, largely covered by a black apron. There was a smudge of dirt across her cheek, and her gilded curls were an untamed riot with a cobweb draped across one side.She was exquisite."
Author: Jo Beverley

20. "But the Spirit was not limited to doing surprising and extraordinary things. He was present in the Old Testament period in giving civil rule and government ... moral virtues ... physical strength ... and intellectual abilities."
Author: John Owen

21. "El amor y el aprecio perfectamente se pueden demostrar con un pastel de queso, con terneras, zapatos, té, buenos días o qué tengo en el ojo; si el cariño sólo se pudiera demostrar con poemas, flores y anillos, bien poco sería el amor."
Author: José C. Vales

22. "Quando os olhos se ataram em segundos infindáveis, calou-se completamente e aceitou o desafio numa batalha de olhares sustentados, na qual nenhum deles queria levantar a bandeira branca. No mesmo instante, em que a luta, em si era devorada pela brevidade."
Author: Juliano Ramos De Oliveira

23. "No hay como compartir una almohada, eso aclara completamente las ideas; a veces hasta acaba con ellas, lo cual es una tranquilidad."
Author: Julio Cortázar

24. "Entonces mis manos buscan hundirse en tu pelo, acariciar lentamente la profundidad de tu pelo mientras nos besamos como si tuviéramos la boca llena de flores o de peces, de movimientos vivos, de fragancia oscura. Y si nos mordemos el dolor es dulce, y si nos ahogamos en un breve y terrible absorber simultáneo del aliento, esa instantánea muerte es bella. Y hay una sola saliva y un solo sabor a fruta madura, y yo te siento temblar contra mí como una luna en el agua."
Author: Julio Cortázar

25. "Ya sabes, hay una delgada línea entre el amor y el odio. Tal vez me amabas y no te diste cuenta -sugirió, sonriendo. Sonreí porque eso era exactamente lo que estaba pensando antes."
Author: Kirsty Moseley

26. "I ragionamenti lo portavano a dubbi e gli impedivano di vedere quel che si doveva e quel che non si doveva fare. Quando invece non pensava, ma viveva, sentiva incessantemente nell'animo suo la presenza d'un giudice infallibile che decideva quale di due azioni possibili fosse migliore e quale peggiore, e, appena agiva non così come si doveva, lo sentiva immediatamente."
Author: Leo Tolstoy

27. "El Tiempo no tiene una sino sus muchas ruedas. Una rueda para las criaturas de corazón lento, y otra para las de corazón apresurado. Ruedas para las criaturas que envejecen lentamente, ruedas para las que se hacen viejas con el día."
Author: Liliana Bodoc

28. "Cosa mi definisce? La mia pelle? Tu sai che si può cambiare con una passata di laser. I muscoli? Si possono costruirecon l'esercizio o con la stimolazioneelettrica. Il grasso? Può scomparirecon i trattamenti criogenici. Io sperodi essere più di tutto questo. Spero diessere quello che penso,quello checredo. Quello che provo."
Author: Lissa Price

29. "Amor é um fogo que arde sem se ver, é ferida que dói, e não se sente; é um contentamento descontente, é dor que desatina sem doer.É um não querer mais que bem querer; é um andar solitário entre a gente; é nunca contentar se de contente; é um cuidar que ganha em se perder.É querer estar preso por vontade; é servir a quem vence, o vencedor; é ter com quem nos mata, lealdade.Mas como causar pode seu favor nos corações humanos amizade, se tão contrário a si é o mesmo Amor?"
Author: Luís Vaz De Camões

30. "Shall I show you the half-dozen other rooms in this hospital where these scenes are repeated? And what of the other hospitals? Printing House Square is small and tame. Even in the private institutions uptown you can see a show just like this: there is nothing as disgusting as an obese cadaver in which all the futile pleasures of many years finally arise to fill it full-blown with stinking rotten gases. The city is burning and under siege. And we are in a war in which everyone is killed and no one is remembered.""What am I supposed to do, then," Peter Lake asked, "if it's like you say?""Is there someone you love?""Yes.""A woman?""Yes.""Then go home to her.""And who will remember her?""No one. That's just the point. You must take care of all that now."
Author: Mark Helprin

31. "We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words."
Author: Martin Luther

32. "Quien alcanza su meta no es el que sale primero o el que maneja más rápido. Es el que comienza preparado sabiendo exactamente para dónde va."
Author: Mauricio Chaves Mesén

33. "El mandato de gustar conduce –y esto es en realidad lo decisivo– a que la crítica negativa casi haya desaparecido. En internet nos comportamos exactamente como frente al televisor: cuando uno se enfada quizá profiere un insulto, pero no lo hace público. A pesar de que los usuarios de facebook exigerion durante meses la introducción de un pulgar de "no me gusta", esta opción no existe todavía: si no te gusta, simplemente clica en algún otro sitio, limítate a pasar de ello."
Author: Meredith Haaf

34. "(las) personas son cada vez menos capaces de ejercer alguna influencia en un plano superior, a menos que se cuenten entre los así llamados "actores principales" de la economía y no, explícitamente, de la política. Las exigencias que se les plantean cambian constantemente y en general se amplían, mientras que se reduce el tiempo para llevarlas a cabo."
Author: Meredith Haaf

35. "Las mujeres tratan de compensar sus desventajas ocultándose, en lugar de abrirse paso hasta ocupar el promer plano, como sí hacen a menudo sus homólogos masculinos. Y si a veces se sienten tratadas injustamente, se encogen de hombros y buscan el fallo en ellas mismas en lugar de enfrentarse a la situación."
Author: Meredith Haaf

36. "Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home."
Author: Michael Franti

37. "She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange exotic breed. Not that she did not have enough animals. She had collected several wild and broken animals that, in a way, had become exotic by their breaking. Their roof would have collapsed from the number of birds who might have lived there if the desert hadn't killed three- quarters of those that tried to cross it. Still every animal that came within a certain radius of that house was given a welcome--the tame, the half born, the wild, the wounded."
Author: Michael Ondaatje

38. "Moda é o que usamos. O que está fora de moda é que os outros usam. Da mesma forma que vulgaridade é simplesmente o comportamento de outras pessoas. E mentiras, as verdades de outras pessoas."
Author: Oscar Wilde

39. "I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, tame the wilderness by describing it, challenge God by learning His hundred names."
Author: Penelope Lively

40. "The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood."
Author: Rebecca Solnit

41. "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."
Author: Rudyard Kipling

42. "If I could be silenced, I would be. If I could be tamed, I would be. If I could be loved, I would be. If I could be hated, I would be. If I could resist the inevitable, I would not."
Author: Sarah Pussell

43. "And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand."
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

44. "— ¿Me estas siguiendo? —ella pregunta, pero no se encuentra con mi mirada. —Si —le digo.— ¿Por qué?— ¿Honestamente?Ella me mira, sus cejas enarcadas. Le doy la única respuesta honesta y verdadera que tengo.—Estas donde yo quiero estar."
Author: Simone Elkeles

45. "After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word count up. Of course, just because Jesus replaces the Old Testament doesn't mean that you should necessarily skip it. That would be like skipping Batman and Robin just because the story starts over in Batman Begins. The important thing to realize is that both the old and new stories are about an all-powerful being trying to rid the world of evildoers, only in the new one The Batman can eat pork."
Author: Stephen Colbert

46. "WE do try to eat," Raoul called back to her [Kel]. I go all faint if I don't get fed regularly. Only think of the disgrace to the King's Own if I fell from the saddle.""But there was that time in Fanwood," a voice behind them said."That wedding in Tameran," added the blonde Sergeant Osbern, riding a horse-length behind Kel."Don't forget when what's-his-name, with the army, retired," yelled a third."Silence, insubordinate curs!" cried Raoul. "Do not sully my new squire's ears with your profane tales!""Even if they're TRUE?" That was Dom. It seemed Neal wasn't the only family member versed in irony."
Author: Tamora Pierce

47. "I shall fear not. According to the Testament of Mezerek, the fisherman Nonpo spent four days in the belly of a giant fish," said Constable Visit.The thunder seemed particularly loud in the silence."Washpot, are we talking miracles here?" said Reg eventually. "Or just a very slow digestive process?"
Author: Terry Pratchett

48. "Il tuo comportamento è una scelta, non è ciò che sei."
Author: Vanessa Diffenbaugh

49. "Their tameness is shocking to me."
Author: William Cowper

50. "Be sweet to one another. Stay in this beauty and brawl against the world's power of pulling apart. Recall Old Testament terminology: covenant, sacred, sacrifice. And mind always that Adam wasn't a schlep fruitily duped by Eve. He turned his back on God because he knew that a paradise without her was no paradise at all."
Author: William Giraldi

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