Curse Quotes - Page 32

• Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

  Gene Wolfe

  Communication, Men, Purpose

  Gene Wolfe (2009). “The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction”, p.111, Macmillan

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• Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.

  Jim Butcher

  Sex, Children, Book

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.23, Penguin

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• Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse which had established economics as a scientific discipline cut off from human interests would proliferate. Economic models ... have failed to incorporate any meaningful index of individual benefit other than the original utilitarian one, ... the index of increasing income or an increasing flow of commodities.

  John Carroll

  Meaningful, Cutting, Economic Models

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• Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween, possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last twenty-five years. With the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) movie to bear the Halloween moniker, we see how far the mighty have fallen. In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture just not in the way the film makers intended.

  James Berardinelli

  Halloween, Years, Scare

  "Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net. 1995.

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• By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.

  Erich Ludendorff

  Party, Winning, Self

  "My War Memories, 1914-1918". Book by Erich Ludendorff, 1919.

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• The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and it may not be a thing to be much wondered at that our Americans whom we send to represent us in London become in a short time somewhat civilized, and learn to love those who hate them, bless those that curse them, and do good to those that persecute and calumniate them.

  Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

  Christian, Hate, Land

  Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (1898). “Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood. Customs, Habits and Manners of the Irish People. Erinach and Sassenach-Catholic and Protestant-Englishman and Irishman-English Religion-Irish Plunder. Social Life and Prison Life. The Fenian Movement. Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America”

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• Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an Ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Boys, World, Eccentric

  James Kenneth Stephen, “To R. K.”

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• In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture.

  Amadeo Bordiga

  Dream, Civilization, Names

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• Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Names, Spirit

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• Sven must have neglected to pay tribute to one of those strict Nordic gods. But instead of cursing Eriksson himself, Thor has done a still crueller thing and cursed the England strikers. I can only assume that Eriksson was never informed of this curse, otherwise he might have more than a 17-year-old up his sleeve.

  Simon Barnes

  Soccer, Football, Years

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• Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wall, Hate, Hypocrite

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.67, 德威國際文化

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• Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Blessing, Giving, People

  Source: collider.com

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• People make a big deal about podcasts but it's basically an online radio show with the sound effects and sidekicks, but because you can curse it's more like satellite radio. Most of the podcasters were morning guys who were fired when Clear Channel decimated the radio landscape.

  Bill Burr

  Morning, People, Guy

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Ghetto, Damn You

  "We Need Martin Luther King Jr.’s Antiwar Rage Now More Than Ever" by Ja’han Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 04, 2018.

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• How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

  Winston Churchill

  Dog, Men, Agriculture

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• Looking a certain way is a blessing and a curse.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Blessing, Way, Certain

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• I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

  Alaina Huffman

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• Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Twilight, Despair, Midnight

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.106

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• The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

  George Eliot

  Culture, Obstacles, Opinion

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5933, Delphi Classics

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• I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, Pride, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19

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• We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

  Winston Churchill

  Theory, Referring, Plenty

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• Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

  Winston Churchill

  One Day, Mortality, Ruthless

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. v One could wish no easier death than that of Socrates, calmly discussing philosophy with his friends; one could fear nothing worse than that of Jesus, dying in torment, among the insults, the mockery, the curses of the whole nation. In the midst of these terrible sufferings, Jesus prays for his cruel murderers. Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Christ are those of a God.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Jesus, Philosophy, People

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• Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Hate, Real, Writing

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.

  Gore Verbinski

  Blue, Balls, Incredibles

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