Curse famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.
-- Al Gore -
I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.
-- Alaina Huffman -
Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.
-- Anne Rice -
Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse
-- Arnold J. Toynbee -
Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.
-- Bertrice Small -
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
-- Bill Keller -
The Olympics must be my curse or something.
-- Blanka Vlasic -
Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Too much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole
-- Cheryl Cole -
It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do
-- Christine Baranski -
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
-- Clarence Darrow -
I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends
-- Dan Fogelberg -
I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.
-- Diane Kruger -
seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson -
We each have our belssings and our curses. In the end it makes us equals.
-- Elizabeth Haydon -
This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
It is a curse, being blessed with so much to offer.
-- Gannicus -
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
-- George Gissing -
At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
-- Graham Nelson -
Never curse yourself by limiting your students.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
-- Holly Black -
The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.
-- Horace Walpole -
The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Intolerance has been the curse of our country.
-- James Larkin -
When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen -
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.
-- John Adams -
When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.
-- John H. Johnson -
The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.
-- Josh Billings -
I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.
-- Joshua Harris -
I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.
-- Juliana Hatfield -
The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!
-- Kaza Kingsley -
Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.
-- Keshub Chandra Sen -
Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.
-- Kristin Armstrong -
To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.
-- Leah Stewart -
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
-- Lucy Larcom -
Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.
-- Margot Fonteyn -
The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.
-- Mary Parker Follett -
I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
-- Matthew Kelly -
True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.
-- Morgan Wootten -
You cannot learn to curse like an American.
-- Nathan Englander -
...be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.
-- Olive Schreiner -
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
-- P. G. Wodehouse -
If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.
-- Pat Benatar -
We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
-- Peter Greenaway -
When we withhold the tithe we bring upon ourselves a curse.
-- Phil Pringle -
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
-- Phyllis Bottome -
My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.
-- Puff Daddy -
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.
-- Remy de Gourmont -
I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.
-- Richard Paul Evans -
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.
-- Rick Yancey -
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
-- Robert Browning -
I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.
-- Robert Sheckley -
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
-- Rudolf Virchow -
Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myself
-- Rufus Wainwright -
Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.
-- Steven Erikson -
Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.
-- T. D. Jakes -
Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.
-- Tiffany Shlain -
It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.
-- Tina Fey -
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
-- Victoria Woodhull -
Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
-- Walter Lang -
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
-- William E. Gladstone -
There are no such things as curses; only people and their decisions
-- Yvonne Wood -
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
-- Zhuangzi -
It's not like I want to put myself on a high horse, but I just don't curse a lot.
-- Cassidy Erin Gifford -
From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.
-- Charles Chilton Moore -
To do a Bond picture is a blessing but also a curse.
-- Maryam d'Abo -
I can be very reactionary. It's a gift and a curse.
-- Xosha Roquemore -
I always act better when I'm able to curse.
-- Miguel Ferrer -
The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.
-- Richard Carlile -
I think I have pretty good taste in the projects I choose to take on. It's a blessing and a curse - I certainly could have worked a lot more if I wasn't as selective, but I just can't bring myself to spend two years of my life slaving away on some project I'm not really enthused about.
-- Terry Zwigoff -
In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."
-- Tiffany Shlain
