Cursing Quotes - Page 5

• The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of people are no longer cursing the darkness and have started lighting candles and doing positive things.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Dream, Reality, People

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• If your idea of a role model is somebody who's gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I'm not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Girl, Strong

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and beneficial element, just because some people are burnt by it, or to cursing water just because some people are drowned in it.

  Christine de Pizan

  Men, Fire, Order

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• Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!

  Mark Batterson

  Darkness, Complaining, Needs

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• Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Waiting, Firsts, Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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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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• Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the heat& smell of gunpowder, making moneyfloat from hand to hand. The next momenta rocket pushes a white fistthrough night sky, & they scatter like birds& fall into the shape their liveshave become.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Fall, Night, White

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• One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Blessing, Trials, Wickedness

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

  Michael Gove

  Children, Men, People

  "Michael Gove's 'anti-Mr Men' speech in full". Speech in Brighton College by Michael Gove, politics.co.uk. May 09, 2013.

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• Which way did they go, Peeves?" Filch was saying. "Quick, tell me." "Say 'please.'" "Don't mess with me, Peeves, now where did they go?" "Shan't say nothing if you don't say please," said Peeves in his annoying singsong voice. "All right- PLEASE." "NOTHING! Ha haaa! Told you I wouldn't say nothing if you didn't say please! Ha ha! Haaaaaa!" And they heard the sound of Peeves whooshing away and Filch cursing in rage.

  J. K. Rowling

  Voice, Sound, Way

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• My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public space and actions. To sing their own songs. To make their own inventions..To build and not just to envy. To light that candle which is so much better than cursing the darkness. To be as much as the human condition can sustain, rather than being only what a system can allow.

  Karl Hess

  Song, Responsibility, Light

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• Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks and the cursing are palpable, and this appeals to those who rank "sincerity" very high. Nabokov is more like a master swordsmith making a fine blade; nothing is amiss, nothing is too much, there is no fuss, and the finished product must be handled with great care, or it will cut you badly.

  Robertson Davies

  Writing, Cutting, Care

  Review of Nabokov's Lolita, 1958.

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• It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11? Americans would say, "You've overstepped your authority." That's how we feel when he promotes prayer.

  Dan Barker

  Prayer, Thinking, Government

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• Go and see whether the Doctor is about,’ said Jack, ‘and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.’ Which he is in the fish-market, turning over some old-fashioned lobsters. No. I tell a lie. That is him, falling down the companion-way and cursing in foreign.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Lying, Fall, Doctors

  Patrick O'Brian (2000). “Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

  Maya Angelou

  Family, Might, Insult

  Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.11, Vintage

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• Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

  Agatha Christie

  Sports, Surfing

  Agatha Christie (1931). “The man in the brown suit”

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• Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.

  Gail Carriger

  Pieces, Paper, Delicacy

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Thinking, Excuse

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