Curse Quotes - page 15

In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York Times' - coupled with the favourable Supreme Court rulings on publication of the Pentagon Papers - were landmarks for the interpretation of First Amendment rights and the freedom of the press. (Lionel Barber)
I feel there is a curse on rock stars. View quote
Marc Bolan
I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English. View quote
Alexa Davalos
Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give? View quote
Chief Bender
After 'Radio Flyer,' to this day, every family-oriented script or script with kid actors comes across my desk. That's just Hollywood: you get pigeonholed, and it's both a blessing and a curse, but you live with it. View quote
David M. Evans
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing. View quote
John Hope
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. View quote
Marya Mannes
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. View quote
Pat Benatar
In-N-Out is incredible, but don't tell coach I've been going there. He would flip out and put some curse on me. View quote
Pau Gasol
I don't want to look exactly the same in everything I do. And if I'm not identifiable, then that can be a blessing or a curse. But I'm fine with it. Because at the end of the day, I'm still working, and I'm enjoying what I do. View quote
Rochelle Aytes
One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil. (Rosemary Mahoney)
Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again. View quote
Sinead O'Connor
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out. View quote
Thomas Shepard
The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be. View quote
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood. View quote
Nancy Atherton
Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven. View quote
Obert Skye
This war has descended upon mankind as a curse and a warning. It is a curse inasmuch as it is brutalizing man on a scale hitherto unknown. All distinctions between combatants and noncombatants have been abolished. No one and nothing is to be spared. Lying has been reduced to an art. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command. View quote
Dallas Willard
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Another characteristic of the idler's work is that it looks suspiciously like play. This, again, makes the non-idler feel uncomfortable. Victims of the Protestant work ethic would like all work to be unpleasant. They feel that work is a curse, that we must suffer on this earth to earn our place in the next. The idler, on the other hand, sees no reason not to use his brain to organise a life for himself where his play is his work, and so attempt to create his own little paradise in the here and now. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other. (James Madison)
Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
The divine shall mean for us only such a primal reality as the individual feels impelled to respond to solemnly and gravely, and neither by a curse nor a jest. View quote
William James
You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
It's a curse, you know, to be able to look higher than you're allowed to reach. View quote
Ayn Rand