Curse Quotes - Page 22

• When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

  Donald Miller

  Fall, Men, Miracle

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.87, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists. "I'm Poseidon's son," I said. "Curse that upstart! I was here first!

  Rick Riordan

  Son, Fists, Firsts

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• These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous American poet: 'You Walt Whitman-ing, Edna St. Vincent Millay! Go Emily Dickinson your mom!' 'Thanks for the advice, you pathetic piece of E.E. Cummings, but I think I'm gonna pass.' 'You Robert Frost-ing Nikki Giovanni! Get a life, nerd. You're a virgin.' 'Hey bro, you need to go outside and get some fresh air into you. Or a girlfriend.' I need to get a girlfriend into me? I think that shows a fundamental lack of comprehension about how babies are made.

  John Green

  Mom, Baby, Girlfriend

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• Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

  Franz Kafka

  Grateful, Facts, Should

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.

  Rick Yancey

  Totems, Doom, Humans

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't care who I have to fight! If he rips my arms out, I'll kick him to death! If he rips my legs off, I'll bite him to death! If he rips my head off, I'll stare him to death! And if he gouges out my eyes, I'll curse him from the grave! Even If i'm torn to shreds, I'm taking Sasuke back from Orochimaru!

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Rip, Eye, Fighting

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• I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.

  Joshua Harris

  Light, Darkness, Candle

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.198, Multnomah

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• That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

  Stephen King

  Reading, Class, Stories

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• I did have regrets these past six months,” he told me quietly. “I found it a curse as much as a blessing, all that time to think. About the things I could have said, that I should have told you  .  .  .

  Karen Chance

  Regret, Blessing, Past

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• Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Dying, Breaths

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• What-what do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence. The voice cackled maliciously. 'To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!' "Only a thousand times?" Percy murmured. "Oh, good...I thought we were in trouble.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Night, Names

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• Kick and claw all you like. Scream. Hit me. Curse the f*ck out of me. You won't sleep anywhere but with me tonight.

  Katy Evans

  Sleep, Tonight, Scream

  Katy Evans (2013). “Remy”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Real, Being Alone, Creativity

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• Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Country, Freedom, Patriotic

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• Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Law, Made

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.241

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• My merry, merry, merry roundelay
  Concludes with Cupid's curse,
  They that do change old love for new,
  Pray gods, they change for worse!

  George Peele

  Life, Old Love, Praying

  Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele”, p.355

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• We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism ... Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race.

  Linus Pauling

  Peace, War, Winning

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• To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Determination, Believe, Eye

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• I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Mean, Race

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Believe, Religion

  "What I Believe" in The Forum 84 (p. 139), September 1930.

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• Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Work

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• Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Grateful, Cutting

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Business, People, Decision

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• Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Drinking, Vacation

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• Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Liberty, Wealth, Ifs

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