Curse Quotes - Page 27

• To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. It means living so that "I'm only human" does not become an excuse for anything. It means receiving the human condition as blessing and not curse, in all its achingly frail and redemptive reality.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Mean, Blessing

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• It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Spring, Flower

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.10

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• Easy writings curse is hard reading.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Reading, Writing, Easy

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• Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation, - we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse. Our song, our toil, our cheer and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts worth the giving? Is not this worth the striving? Would America have been America without her Negro People?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Song, Cheer, Blood

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• ...be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Light, Darkness

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.35, Penguin

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• Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

  Robert Burns

  Weed, Dark, Years

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Gilbert Burns (1820). “The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.265

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• It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

  John Milton

  Dark, Eclipse, Bark

  John Milton (1785). “Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin”, p.18

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• I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Blessing, Choices, Way

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 14, 2003.

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• Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

  Joyce Cary

  Grief, Funeral, Earth

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• ... moral evil is its own curse.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Evil, Moral, Moral Evil

  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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• If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

  Pat Benatar

  Blessing, Doing What You Want, Retired

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1997.

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• The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

  Paul Keating

  Political, Life Is, Modern

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

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• At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Sleep, Soldier

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• We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

  Peter Greenaway

  Blessing, Knows, Dies

  "Peter Greenaway: 'I plan to kill myself when I'm 80'". Interview With Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2012.

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• The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

  Bill Keller

  Answers, Journalist

  "Not dead yet: the newspaper in the days of digital anarchy" by Bill Keller, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2007.

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• What you are comes from the blood of those who set you on this journey. That is likewise unchangeable. What you see in the reflecting pool of truth is who you are. You cannot change that, so it is wise not to curse it. The wiser choice is to embrace it and make it your strength.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Wise, Acceptance, Journey

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• At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.

  Graham Nelson

  April, Ends

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• The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.

  Graham Nelson

  Plot, Gone, Use

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• Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Thank God, Phases, Fame

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• As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.

  Kevin Powers

  Blessing, Normal, Matter

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• The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Common

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• For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed.

  Abba Hillel Silver

  Cain, Earth, Faces

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• Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Superhero, Wish

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

  Criss Jami

  Inspirational, Strong, Ugly Duckling

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.47, Criss Jami

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