Taming Quotes - Page 2

• Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Body, Purses

  William Shakespeare (2008). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.139, Book Jungle

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Body, Weak

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”, p.351

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• She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Shrews, Affection

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions, with notes [&c.] by J.P. Collier. [With] Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays”, p.129

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• I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Morning, Rose

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 171

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• And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Mean, Catharsis

  Maurice Sendak's acceptance speech upon being awarded the Caldecott Medal for "Where the Wild Things Are" (1964), as quoted in "Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books: 1956-65" edited by Lee Kingman, 1965.

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• I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals; and they can't explain how they do. They just get a feeling from the animal.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, People, Feelings

  Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feminist, Shrews, Causes

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

  Allan Bloom

  Education, Art, Passion

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Men, Light

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Thinking, Mind

  The Dalai Lama, Tsongkhapa (2017). “The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, Volume 2: Deity Yoga”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.

  Robert Benchley

  Sports, Exercise, Thinking

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• The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Future, Significant Change, Safety

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• Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get.

  Cesar Millan

  Hurt, Animal, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Palaeolithic. We could call it the String Revolution.

  E. J. W. Barber

  Powerful, Moving, Simple

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• Time hath a taming hand.

  John Henry Newman

  Hands

  John Henry Newman (1853). “Verses on Religious Subjects”, p.40

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• Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.

  Edna Ferber

  Savages, Shrews, Married

  1958 Of Alaska. Ice Palace.

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• If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

  Andre Gide

  Flower, Men, Worry

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• [we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.

  Margaret Chan

  People, Malaria, Disease

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• The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.

  Atisa

  Lying, Mind, Nobility

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• After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

  Jerry Saltz

  Years, Land, Gnarly

  New York Volume 43, Issues 14-21, New York Magazine Company, p. 1, 2010.

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• When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork, the camaraderie, the lessons in taming one's own ego for the sake of the group. But you have to wonder, how often is that still really true?

  Michel Martin

  Uplifting, Sports, Teamwork

  "Lebron James: 'More Than A Game' - Part II". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 15, 2009.

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• There's no doubt that there will be many trials and tribulations along the way in taming space for the benefit of all, unmasking its truths and using the boundless resources available to us. Taking a chance allows us to seek new horizons -- and we all benefit from being horizon hunters.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Doubt, Hunters

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• There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.

  Peer Steinbruck

  Taken, Europe, Balance

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• There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are of the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of an athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy.

  Guy Davenport

  Horse, Athlete, Pride

  "Eclogues: Eight Stories".

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