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tame
«Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.»
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
(Writer)
| Keywords:
advanced, earthly, old woman, tame, uncontrollable, young woman
«We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
defend, descriptions, generalize, generalized, generalizes, generalizing, tame, tamer, tames, tamest, taming
«Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.»
«O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
beyond control, comprehension, control it, describe, Krishna, restless, stillness, tame, tamer, turbulent
«The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
calamities, contained, contained in, Hoboken, hotel room, intimate with, stabbing, tame
«To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
cheap, commonplace, commonplaces, compared, confer, conferring, confer with, pleasures, say something, tame, tamer, tames, tamest, taming, trivial
«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.»