Travel can also be
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of. Ella Maillart
Tamed
Even if a tamed
Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel….You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight – you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds – you know in your own heart what kind … Read more
Beauty is for the
Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: – that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly – that is what delights the artist’s WILL TO POWER. … Read more
Men and women, inspired
Men and women, inspired by faith in man’s dignity, goaded by conviction in man’s responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for those who followed them. Because every American generation attacked its problems with fresh vigor, we have peopled a continent, subdued its prairies and wilderness, tamed its rivers and devoted its … Read more
An animal on a
An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl. Diane … Read more
Maybe love, too, is
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 … Read more
What if desire wasn’t
What if desire wasn’t an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed? Danielle LaPorte
I stared at her
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. Dan Wells
Bernard Williams has been
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the dubious exhilaration of grand philosophical theory, in which messy reality is tamed and caged, but the thrill of seeing pretension punctured by a kind of high-voltage common sense (backed up … Read more
The best way to
The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed. Charles James