Quotes by Dragons The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up. Patrick Rothfuss shoesdragonspowerful I am a big Dragon fan. I've said it before- And I was fortunate enough to be born a Dragon in the Chinese Horocope. Peter Jackson chinesedragonsfans The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess. Peter Senge dragonsmeanthinking Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way. Phil McGraw hikingdragonsdetermination Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deer hound. Philip Pullman dragonsfightingchildren They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it. Paulo Coelho dragonskingsbook The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees. Pliny the Elder snakesdragonstree No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. R. A. Salvatore magicdragonsfaith Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. R. A. Salvatore dragonswritingbook A world without dragons is a world not worth living in. R. A. Salvatore worth-livingdragonsworld Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no longer hoarded gold; Comonot's reforms had outlawed it. For Orma and his generation, knowledge was treasure. As dragons through the ages had done, he gathered it and then he sat on it. Rachel Hartman dragonsagebook China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'. Rahul Gandhi dragonselephantsindia Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. Rainer Maria Rilke dragonshippiefear We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them.... Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. Rainer Maria Rilke princessdragonsbeautiful But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing. Ralph Waldo Emerson dragonsprinciplescountry Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support in the swaying car. 'Tearing back and forth across the city in their underground caves, devouring people and spitting them out at random destinations. Regina Doman dragonscitiespeople I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in history. Richard Kadrey dragonsfightinggames Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly flames everywhere. Richard Siken love-alwaysflamesdragons Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero. Richard Siken dragonsbigshero Whuf added the dragon. Rick Cook dragons«1011121314151617181920»
