Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.
Praise Him, each savage furious beast That on His stores do daily feast; And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough, Your weary knees to your Creator bow.
Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.
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.
An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.
This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me.
The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?
Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.
If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.
Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home. " I snapped the phone shut and placed it in her waiting hand. "I'm done.
Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized this process of leaping ahead, however, in part because textbooks tend to tame revolutions. . . They describe the advances as if they had been logical in their day, not all shocking.
My books are so tame!
He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse.
It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.
By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.
People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.