Curse Quotes - Page 19

• If you get on a TV show that's successful, odds are that you're playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you're playing the same thing and that can be tiresome.

  Sarah Paulson

  Running, Character, Successful

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• The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse or chase broads. I don't see how he can make it.

  Richie Ashburn

  Kids, Drink, Broads

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• Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

  Confucius

  Light, Darkness, Candle

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• Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man 'yet to come'. Confucius spoke of 'the Saint'; the Sibyls, of a 'Universal King'; the Greek dramatist, of a saviour and redeemer to unloose man from the 'primal eldest curse'. All these were on the Gentile side of the expectation. What separates Christ from all men is that first He was expected; even the Gentiles had a longing for a deliverer, or redeemer. This fact alone distinguishes Him from all other religious leaders.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wise, Religious, Kings

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• The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when Job insists that his sufferings have no explanation and that he cannot discover the reason for them through conventional ethical concepts, his friends turn into accusers, and curse Job as a sinner. Thus, instead of consolers, they become torturers by virtue of their very morality, and in so doing, while claiming to be advocates of God, they act as instruments of the devil.

  Thomas Merton

  Jobs, Offering, Suffering

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• I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.

  Chris Rock

  Mother, Careful, Fronts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ray Romano

  Saint, Married, Wells

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• When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.

  Ellen G. White

  Christian, Prayer, People

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• The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Blessing, Motive, Thirst

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• Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Truth, Lying, Knowing

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• Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Song, Children, Fire

  "Housekeeping". Book by Marilynne Robinson, 1980.

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• It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.

  Annie Dillard

  Special, Library, World

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Castles, Moats

  Maya Angelou (2011). “I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems”, p.21, Random House

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• You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.

  Philip K. Dick

  Science, Shadow, Identity

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049”, p.179, Ballantine Books

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• But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.

  Tim Burton

  Winning, Sticks, Pins

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• We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Hatred, Joy, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile

  Anne Rice

  Eye, Devil, Pale

  Anne Rice (2009). “The Vampire Armand: The Vampire Chronicles 6”, p.34, Random House

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• My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

  Tim Burton

  Son, Pharaohs, Diagnosis

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• Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Real, Perspective

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Leap”, p.52, Vintage

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• What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Loneliness, Sadness

  "The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 341, 1882.

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• Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

  Horace Greeley

  Wisdom, Cheer, Character

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• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Attitude, Fall

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• The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.

  Abraham Kuyper

  World, Flight, Monastic Life

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dies

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

  Chip Heath

  Impossible, Imagine, Given

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