Curse Quotes - Page 13

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

  Le Corbusier

  Green, Noise, Reign

  "The Edict of Chandigarh". Plaque erected at Chandigarh, India, as an abbreviated form of the document "The Establishment Statute of the Land", December 17, 1959.

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• The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.

  Elinor Glyn

  Loss, Self, California

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• Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Southern, Literature, Slavery

  George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”

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• Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Prayer, Children, Hate

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.167, Northwestern University Press

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• there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Strong, Drinking, Order

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• By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Evil, Moral, Constitution

  Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Discourses on the Christian revelation, viewed in connection with the modern astronomy: To which are added, Discourses illustrative of the connection between theology & general science”, p.328

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• Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Mean, Blessing

  Alexander Maclaren (1908). “The Book of Esther”

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• Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

  Stella Benson

  Blessed, Blessing, Apples

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. The only salvation for man is in the union of the two as Christianity unites them.

  Mark Hopkins

  Men, Two, Adequate

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• The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Beauty, Cost, Facts

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• Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Wife, Earth, Human Life

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• 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

  Way, Jew, Written

  Olive Schreiner (2005). “Words in Season: The Public Writings with Her Own Remembrances Collected for the First Time”, Penguin Global

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• It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they distrust their own standards and hesitate to give voice to their deeper convictions, submitting supinely to estimates and characterizations of themselves as handed down by a not unprejudiced dominant majority.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Voice, Giving, Majority

  Anna Julia Cooper (1988). “A Voice From the South”, p.43, Oxford University Press

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• Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment still more upon the white, because it has warped his sense of truth and has degraded his moral nature. The position and the treatment of the blacks, however, really improve from year to year; while the whites do not seem to advance in enlightenment.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Years, White, Black

  Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.102, Applewood Books

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• It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.

  Tina Fey

  Harder

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• I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

  Lady Gaga

  Blessing, Destiny, Thinking

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• Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your inner life, from the flow of your own thoughts, and turned far too much towards the outside world.

  Hilary Mantel

  Writing, Cutting, World

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• Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.

  Twyla Tharp

  Blessing, Secret, Limits

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.

  Mary Collyer

  Answers, Heroic, Appearance

  Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.203

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• I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment is a wonderful help to discourse; as it supplies the want of good sense, learning, and eloquence. The illiterate and stupid, by the help of oaths, become orators; and he, whose wretched intellects would not permit him to utter a coherent sentence, by this easy practice, excites the laughter, and fixes the attention, of a brilliant and joyous circle.

  Mary Collyer

  Laughter, Stupid, Practice

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• her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Age, Genius, Mixtures

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Reality, Wings, Long

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• Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Real, Dark, Imagination

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “The Egypt Game”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.

  Gail Caldwell

  Pain, Memories, Grief

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• O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

  Christian Scriver

  Tears, Riches, Wealth

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.24

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