Curse Quotes - Page 11

• Your parents put a curse on you - Someday your kids are going to act just like you.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Kids, Justice

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• Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

  Paulo Coelho

  Blessing, Alchemist, Horizon

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Happiness, Gratitude, Unhappy

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• The worst curse in life is unlimited potential.

  Ken Brett

  Unlimited Potential, Life Is, Worst

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

  Zhuangzi

  Cherish

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• There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?

  Leon Uris

  Men, Names, Tears

  Leon Uris (1977). “Trinity”

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• Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Blessing, Two, Energy

  Interview with Anna Maria Hong, www.pw.org. August 13, 2004.

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• Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western culture for almost twenty centuries... It is from his birth that most of the human race dates its calendars, it is by his name that millions curse and in his name that millions pray.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Religious, Jesus, Prayer

  Jaroslav Pelikan (1996). “Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries”

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• It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Christian, Courage, Blessing

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• To you who hear I say, love your enemies,do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you,pray for those who mistreat you.To the person who strikes you on one cheek,offer the other one as well,and from the person who takes your cloak,do not withhold even your tunic.Give to everyone who asks of you,and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back.Do to others as you would have them do to you.

  Luke the Evangelist

  Hate, Love You, Giving

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• The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution which would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Thinking, Grandfather

  "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks".

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• Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessing, Charity, Knows

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.356, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Jesus, Love You

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.98, Beacon Press

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• Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.
  The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even religious holidays have been transformed into opportunities to go to the beach or the park or skiing. There are no more rituals. Ordinary actions can no longer be transformed into manifestations of the sacred. We cook and complain that it's a waste of time, when we should be pouring our love into making that food. We work and believe it's a divine curse, when we should be using our skills to bring pleasure and to spread the energy of the Mother.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mother, Beach, Religious

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• Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Thinking, Punishment, Deities

  Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “The Visitor”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but also the whole creation to its proper purposes, to make straight what is crooked, and to redeem both humanity and the creation from the curse of sin, then herein can be found the possibility for a full and wholesome realization of human artistic activity.

  John Walford

  Art, Submission To God, Humanity

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• It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.

  James Sharp

  Struggle, Adversity, Blessing

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• The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.

  Lou Holtz

  Believe, Opportunity, Choices

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• The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  War, People, Civil War

  Alexander H. Stephens “A”

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• This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

  David Platt

  Inward, Transformation, Follow Me

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.58, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them and to do them honour simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I would commend the Jews. And if this is not enough, let him tell the Jews to use his mouth as a privy, or else crawl into the Jew's hind parts, and there worship the holy thing, so as afterwards to be able to boast of having been merciful, and of having helped the Devil and his progeny to blaspheme our dear Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Worst Enemy, Order, Dear Lord

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• All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

  Henry Adams

  People, Evil, Taxation

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• Chess is a curse upon a man.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Chess

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

  Russell Simmons

  Inspiration, World, Helping

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• Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.

  Philip Berrigan

  Nuclear Disarmament, Use, Earth

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