Curse Quotes
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I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your inner life, from the flow of your own thoughts, and turned far too much towards the outside world.
Hilary Mantel
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It is a curse, being blessed with so much to offer.
Gannicus
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I don't curse on stage, but I feel like I curse more because I have kids and in front of my kids. Not intentionally.
Jim Gaffigan
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Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
William Shakespeare
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The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
Paul Keating
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Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse.
Ben Harper
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A curse on him who begins in gentleness. He shall finish in insipidity and cowardice, and shall never step foot in the great liberating current of Christianity.
Andre Trocme
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The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.
Charles Grandison Finney
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Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside.
Glenn Danzig
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A lot of people don't believe in curses. A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.
Louis Sachar
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There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?
Leon Uris
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Adjectives are the curse of America.
Rita Mae Brown
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Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.
Chip Heath
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.
Chip Heath
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Bless my enemies, O Lord, even I bless them and do not curse them.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
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I mean we're all guilty of getting sidetracked or getting taken away from our loved ones. Whether we believe it or not, or care to admit it or not, it's just a product of this lifestyle. That's a big reason why I've always called this the blessing and the curse.
Chuck Ragan
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It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It's not really a curse or anything that you're blind; it's really a blessing.
James Timothy Shaw
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He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.
William Blake
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I think I have pretty good taste in the projects I choose to take on. It's a blessing and a curse - I certainly could have worked a lot more if I wasn't as selective, but I just can't bring myself to spend two years of my life slaving away on some project I'm not really enthused about.
Terry Zwigoff
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From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.
Charles Chilton Moore