Curse Quotes - Page 18

• I don't believe in curses, I think you make your own destination.

  Manny Ramirez

  Believe, Thinking, Destination

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

  Glenn Danzig

  Blessing, Seduction, Hunger

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• 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.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Pigs, Blood, Sweat

  "The Nazi Party: A Complete History 1919-1945". Book by Dietrich Orlow, 2007.

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• Sometimes we are inclined to think that a very great portion of modern revivalism has been more a curse than a blessing, because it has led thousands to a kind of peace before they have known their misery; restoring the prodigal to the Father’s house, and never making him say, “Father, I have sinned.”

  Charles Spurgeon

  Father, Blessing, Thinking

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• A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.

  Richard Sibbes

  Lying, Suffering

  Richard Sibbes (1809). “The Works of the Reverend Richard Sibbs ...: To which is Prefixed, a Short Memoir of the Author's Life ...”, p.449

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• When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Enemy, Add

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• Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Facts, Limited Time, Bless

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• Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will Curse you.

  Emmet Fox

  Bless, Troublesome

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• A light purse is a heavy curse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Light, Purses, Heavy

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, May, Might

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.120, Xist Publishing

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• In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt . . . spent billions of public money and created a huge public debt, but by so doing he revived production and brought his country out of the depression. Businessmen, who in spite of such a sharp lesson continued to believe in old-fashioned economics, were infinitely shocked, and although Roosevelt saved them from ruin, they continued to curse him and to speak of him as 'the madman in the White House.' . . . [It's one more] striking example of inability to learn from experience.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Believe, White

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• Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Hate, Machines, Keyboards

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• It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

  Jonathan Ive

  Thinking, Design, Looks

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• There's kind of this unequaled thrill of playing a half-finished song, it's kind of sense of slight embarrassment; like you're blushing. I like doing that. I did that with "Eyeoneye" and it was almost a curse on the song for a while; I debuted it when it was half-finished in a very public way

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Thrill, Half

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Play, Sweat, Evil

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3211, e-artnow

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• We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse must depend upon our own wisdom or folly, virtue or wickedness.... Justice and virtue are the vital principles of republican government.

  George Mason

  Blessing, Government, Justice

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• I will never again cast a curse on myself.

  Rob Brezsny

  Casts

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.253, Frog Books

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• The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious

  Martin Luther

  Ears, Hallelujah, Pious

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• Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Democracy, Progress

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

  Peter Damian

  Blessing, Earth, Mary

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• You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.

  Patrick Kane

  Light, Choices, Darkness

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• The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Character, Neurosis

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study .... It means you have to read, you have to observe, you have to think, so that when you turn your imagination on, it has the fuel to do its job.

  Stella Adler

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.85, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Heart, Mean

  Jean Calvin, John Calvin, Ford Lewis Battles (1995). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.30, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old. Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.

  Alan Lightman

  Pain, Children, Voice

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