Cressida Cowell Quotes

You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse. You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.

Cressida Cowell

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• When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • You
  • Hands
  • Fate

• I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Real
  • History

• My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Hands
  • Fate
  • Allah

• A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

  

  Otto Bauer
  • Men
  • Character
  • Community

• Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Fate

• In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Wisdom
  • Better
  • Fate

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Path
  • Fate
  • Battle

• I have ever remarked, that when Fate has any great misfortune in store, it is always preceded by a brief period of calm and sunshine-as if to add bitterness of contrast to all other misery. It is for the happy to tremble-it is over their heads that the thunderbolt is about to burst.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Period

• If you know how to launch your ship into God's sea Oh, what a blessed fate, submerged in it to be

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Sea
  • Blessed

• Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death 'He is going to pay his debt to society,' but: 'They are going to cut off his head.' It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Death
  • Society

• Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.

  

  Chrysippus
  • Character
  • True
  • Nature

• If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.

  

  Chrysippus
  • Nature
  • Fate

• My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer this fate since the end of the Cold War. I'm stunned. But my expulsion is not, I reflect, a surprise. It's something I have always accepted as a real, if far-fetched, possibility.

  

  Luke Harding
  • Real
  • War
  • Fashion

• I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • God
  • Nature
  • Humanity

• The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Hope
  • Soul
  • Fate

• I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn’t true, but it sounded good.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Good
  • True
  • Nice

• Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Tongue
  • Eternal Love
  • No True

• The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process.

  

  Jim Walsh
  • Beginning

• You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse. You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Fate
  • Curse
  • Cheat