Curse Quotes - Page 29

• To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

  Leah Stewart

  Travel, Blessing, Kind

  Leah Stewart (2005). “The Myth of You and Me: A Novel”, p.52, Crown

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• Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality

  Alan D. Eames

  Beer, Self, Joy

  Alan D. Eames (2014). “The Secret Life of Beer!: Exposed: Legends, Lore & Little-Known Facts”, p.15, Storey Publishing

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• The curse of death for disobedience has been silenced because, for believers, there is no longer any Law we have to obey to merit life. The Law has been silenced, but it can only be silenced when it is has been perfectly fulfilled—when it has been completed. And that’s just what Jesus did.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Jesus, Law, Merit

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• The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Age, Poverty, Justification

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• But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Strong, Children, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Cry Of The Children”

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• A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Blessing, Land

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• Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Military, Heart, Thinking

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1845). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations”, p.408, New York, Wiley & Putnam

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• Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot.

  Farid al-Din Attar

  God, Self, Divinity

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• All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mean, Fate, Echoes

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• Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Age, Satisfaction

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Spiritual, Adequate, Love And Wisdom

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• Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Assessment, Statistics, Judgment

  The Silence of the Sea On Statistics (p. 171)

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• In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

  Al Gore

  Light, Darkness, Candle

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• If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private, serene humor in his eyes. 'There is little logic in condemning something one has not experienced...or does not remember experiencing.

  Diane Duane

  Sleep, Eye, Years

  Diane Duane (1983). “The wounded sky”, Star Trek

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• How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.

  Thomas Hood

  Queens, Agency, Ruins

  Thomas Hood, Thomas Hood (Jr.) (1867). “The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood”, p.99

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• Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fall, Humility, Greatness

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  Call it a curse, or just call me blessed, if you can't handle my worst, you ain't getting my best

  Nicki Minaj

  Blessed, Call Me, Worst

  Song: Marilyn Monroe, 2012

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• I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.

  Andrew Jackson

  Wisdom, Country, Believe

  Andrew Jackson, Sam B. Smith, Harriet Fason Chappell Owsley, Harold D. Moser (1996). “The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824”, p.399, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Books are the curse of the human race.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Race, Refutation

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.137

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• The problem with being a Tour de France winner is you always have that feeling of disappointment if you don't win again. That's the curse of the Tour de France.

  Greg LeMond

  Disappointment, Winning, Feelings

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• The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.

  Irving Greenberg

  Light, Darkness, Hanukkah

  Irving Greenberg (2011). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• When your situation has gone beyond the power of nature, it has become a curse. Who can remove a curse but Jesus Christ?

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Gone, Christ

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• The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

  Criss Jami

  Lonely, Bored, Solitude

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness?

  Chief Dan George

  Native American, Heart, Grandchildren

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• Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Men, Solitude, Society

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.96

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