Patience is passion tamed.

I’d love to try to tame you… And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.

Monsters are beasts that cannot be tamed.

There was a wildness inside him; someday he would capture it. Not to be tamed, but to be released. For only by understanding his mind could it be freed.

All habits are bad habits. (…) 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.

She was resilientA brave soldier when life tested herIt didn’t matter that she did strange thingslike stand tall under the rainletting the drops kiss her skinthinking the storm was romanticIt was hard to quiet hernot...

A named thing is a tamed thing.