Curse Quotes

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

Through a woman [Eve] a curse fell upon the earth; through a woman [Mary] as well there returned to the earth a blessing.

It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.

We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.

Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.

When your situation has gone beyond the power of nature, it has become a curse. Who can remove a curse but Jesus Christ?

When we withhold the tithe we bring upon ourselves a curse.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists. "I'm Poseidon's son," I said. "Curse that upstart! I was here first!

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be.

It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.

Reacting to the world with a smile instead of a curse, a wave instead of the middle finger, will actually help you live longer.

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. She's a very talented director, and I curse better because of her.

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.

I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.

India is developing because of 125 crore strong Team India. We have to end the curse of casteism, communalism with the sweetness of development.

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?

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Looking a certain way is a blessing and a curse.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?