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

• If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Business
  • Career
  • Strong

• 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

• Matthew Leiah Keller sat beneath a watershed tree and brooded. Other children played all around him, but they ignored Matt. So did two teachers on monitor duty. People usually ignored Matt when he wanted to be alone. Uncle Matt was gone. Gone to a fate so horrible that the adults wouldn't even talk about it.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Children
  • Alone

• 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 find that the things that really, you know, get us fired up, tend to be things that, for example, things that you talk about tonight, what we see in the news.

  

  Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
  • Things
  • News
  • Fired up

• People have a fundamental right to organize. It's rooted very much in the Constitution and people's right to free association.

  

  Martin Heinrich
  • People
  • Free

• In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian abuses of today are just a flick of a switch away. In our homes, on the train, in our coffee shops, we see it, we feel it, we know about it. All of us. All of the time. Human suffering is visible, constantly.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Time
  • World
  • Today

• I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Imagine
  • Parent
  • Aunt

• 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