Cursed Quotes - Page 4

• Yes, you're very very old
  But try to think of it as not being cursed
  After all, in a hostage situation
  You'd be released first!

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Thinking, Trying

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• The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.

  William Shakespeare

  Heat, Quarrels, Sharpness

  William Shakespeare (2011). “King Lear Thrift Study Edition”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire; they were scorched by the fierce heat, but they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.

  John the Apostle

  Angel, Fire, Names

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• You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it

  Armand Assante

  Known

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• You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Broken Heart, Angel, Night

  Anna Akhmatova, “You Thought I Was That Type”

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• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  Carla Bruni

  Computer

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• I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.

  Jim Palmer

  Hate, Spring, Sleep

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• God cursed those who are the sons of Israel, through David and Jesus, the son of Mary. Those people, God made monkeys and pigs.

  Sami Al-Arian

  Jesus, Son, Pigs

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• Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

  Mary MacLane

  People, May, Littles

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• To say I live a cursed life is an understatement. I have to get up every day and work with people who are not as successful as me nor will they ever be as successful as me. Nobody knows the struggles I go through.

  Zach Braff

  Struggle, Successful, People

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• I am cursed with a right leg that arouses the desire of any male dog that happens to be passing. I used to think that this only happened to me but I've discovered that many people have the same problem. They have a femme fatale limb.

  Jasper Carrott

  Funny, Dog, Thinking

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• I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Power, Law Of Attraction, Mind

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• The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

  Andy Behrman

  Broken, Guilt, Six

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• I cursed [Larry Merchant] out once, and I told him that he was a phony.

  Larry Holmes

  Phony, Larry, Merchants

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Powerful, Enemy

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.378, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Teacher, Blessed

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• It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.

  Chilly Gonzales

  Forever, Musician, Laptops

  "Daft Punk: Cover Story Outtakes" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Talent

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• To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. We name experiences, emotions, and subjective states and assume that what is named is as enduring as its name. Human beings blessed and cursed with consciousness - especially consciousness of their own being - think in terms of names, words, symbols.

  James Bugental

  Blessed, Thinking, Names

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• [It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time will tell. For example...] The Talmud relates a story about two people who wanted to travel by boat. One broke his foot and was unable to make the trip, while his friend got on the boat. The one who missed the boat cursed his misfortune. A few days later, however, he heard that the boat sank and all the passengers drowned.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Good Luck, Two, Feet

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• Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me,
  Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest,
  Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed,
  By cursed Cain's race invented be,
  And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.

  John Donne

  Art, Science, Race

  "John Donne: The Major Works".

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• In the new covenant, God doesn't want us to be blessed when we obey the law and cursed when we fail. Doesn't such a system sound awfully similar to the old covenant? Grace is the undeserved, unmerited and unearned favor of God - the moment you try to merit the free favors of God, His grace is nullified.

  Joseph Prince

  Blessed, Law, Grace

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• We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

  S. Parkes Cadman

  Father, Animal, Men

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• Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

  James Madison

  Bible, God, Education

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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!

  Jasper Fforde

  Jail, Giving, Soul

  "The Eyre Affair: Thursday Next". Book by Jasper Fforde, May 1, 2009.

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