Curse Quotes - Page 14

• Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.

  Ali Meshkini

  Liars, Men, Serenity

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• It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never have mounted a throne had not her cradle been rocked in a prison. Surmounted obstacles not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles; for virtue must be learnt, though, unfortunately, some of the vices come as it were by inspiration.

  James Sharp

  Struggle, Inspiration, Adversity

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• In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

  Faye Kellerman

  Blessing, Dying Alone, Solitude

  Faye Kellerman (2009). “The Quality of Mercy”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.

  N.D. Wilson

  Doctors, Elephants, Magic

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• What so pure, which envious tongues will spare?
  Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair,
  With matchless impudence they style a wife,
  The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life;
  A bosom serpent, a domestic evil,
  A night invasion, and a mid-day devil;
  Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard,
  But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Night, Evil

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The Poetical Works of A. Pope, Esq: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.221

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• To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.

  Slavenka Drakulic

  Mother, Son, Parent

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• Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?

  Lorna Landvik

  Men, Too Much, Want

  Lorna Landvik (1999). “Patty Jane's House of Curl”, Ivy Books

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• I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to the majority of the population in some way. Sometimes it's their looks, other times their perceived sex appeal (often in obvious defiance of their looks), and other times it is their real or imagined talent for acting, writing, painting or banging on the drums. And because people are so susceptible to flattery, there exists an entire industry made up of scam artists whose sole goal is to fleece the flatterable.

  Fay Faron

  Sex, Real, Believe

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• Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be defended adequately, we would find that here, as in other areas of our economy and society, private enterprise and modern technology would come not as a curse to mankind but as its salvation.

  Murray Rothbard

  Technology, Rights, Government

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• Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Thinking, Feet

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• It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

  Julia Quinn

  Motherhood, Vex

  Julia Quinn (2009). “The Duke And I”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Blessing, People

  "Pastor Rick Warren". 'This Week', abcnews.go.com. April 8, 2012.

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• ...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.

  Roger Waters

  Artist, Blessing, People

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• From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and felt convinced, that while it lasted, this country would never be free or happy. In consequence, I determined to apply all the powers which my individual efforts could move, in order to separate the two countries.

  Theobald of Bec

  Country, Moving, Individual Effort

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• Cursing dads are terrifying, you know? Cursing dads are - I don't know why, but no. It just doesn't seem to me that that would be funny. I mean it might be - you could try it and see. I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

  Ian Frazier

  Dad, Mean, Thinking

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• It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Spring, Blessing, Mind

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• No more let sins and sorrows grow,
  Nor thorns infest the ground;
  He comes to make His blessings flow
  Far as the curse is found.

  Isaac Watts

  Blessing, Sorrow, Thorns

  Isaac Watts, James Manning Winchell (1820). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts: To which are Added Indexes, Very Much Enlarged and Improved, to Facilitate the Use of the Whole in Finding Psalms Or Hymns Suited to Particular Subjects Or Occasions”, p.61

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• Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

  James Altucher

  Love You, Sacrifice, Ideas

  "Wall Street’s ‘Eat What You Kill’ Motto Is the Only Way to Live" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

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• The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!

  Kaza Kingsley

  Stories, Want, Picks

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• True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

  Morgan Wootten

  Basketball, Teacher, Coaches

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• You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes.

  Jim Rohn

  Country, Rain, Sunshine

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 03, 2013

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• If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1904). “A tale of two cities, with intr., notes, and analytical list of characters”

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• How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

  Francois Rabelais

  Order, Color, Language

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• I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Negative, Doe, Use

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• How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Believe, Law, Atheism

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