You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.
— Bernard Moitessier
Unbelievable Tamed quotations
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us.
All you have is your fire And the place you need to reach Don't you ever tame your demons But always keep them on a leash
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart.
Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.
Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage.
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.
There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.
Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.
To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis.
It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.
We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.
My fiance and I had a few problems working through some of the things that he saw me say and do on the 'Surreal Life.' Considering the company that I was in, Ron Jeremy and Trishelle from 'The Real World,' I think I was pretty tame.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies.
It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.
Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.
Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.
I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
Patience is passion tamed.
My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.
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 need to reduce the tannins.
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure.
It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure.
It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.