Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead
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Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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.
Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with their canals. Or tamed time. Or fenced it in. Or caged it.
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution
One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
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