Curse Quotes - page 2

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse. (Sienna Miller)
I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends. View quote
Dan Fogelberg
You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it? View quote
Jeanette Winterson
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action? View quote
Louis Sullivan
The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind. View quote
Edwin Muir
Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beauseant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost!" View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse. View quote
John Gay
Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. View quote
Douglas Coupland
The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress. View quote
Michael Foot
I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable. (Enoch Powell)
[I]f one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere. View quote
David Suzuki
The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part in posterity will bless or curse us. View quote
Henry Knox
What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
But most, thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse. View quote
William Blake
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. View quote
William Blake
Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations. View quote
Carl Jung
The money pigs of capitalist democracy... Money has made slaves of us... Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life. View quote
H. G. Wells
The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Here is tragedy-and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum. (H. L. Mencken)
When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson