#subdued

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#evil #heart #human #human heart #may

...you have a terrible beauty that scares me - a fierce defiance that won't be subdued - not that i want to tame you - I don't - I like to look... ↗

— John Geddes

#defiance #fierceness #subdued #tame #beauty

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#daily #destiny #easily #imagination #level

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#conquered #control #dependent #energy #europe

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#brain #enemy #flesh #last #long

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#authoritarian #beacon #cannot #china #democracy

People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#compliment #correcting #i #joey #me

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#autumn #because #cousins #day #easter

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ↗

— Washington Irving

#above #great minds #little #little minds #minds

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#beauty #nothing #often #subdued #ugliness