Curse Quotes
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The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
Thomas Sowell -
By raising Christ from death, God as the supreme Judge set his seal to the absolute perfection and completeness of his atoning work. The resurrection is a public announcement to the world that the penalty of death has been borne by Christ to its bitter end and that in consequence the dominion of guilt has been broken, the curse annihilated forever more.
Geerhardus Vos
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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 -
It is a curse, being blessed with so much to offer.
Gannicus -
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
Edward Joseph Young -
No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.
Isaac Watts -
From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.
Charles Chilton Moore -
Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.
Stevie Smith
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The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
Paul Keating -
Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.
Bertrice Small -
We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better.
Carol Matas -
I always act better when I'm able to curse.
Miguel Ferrer -
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 -
Immortality is a terrible curse.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Sometimes it music in my head is a curse, but it's also a blessing. It is a gift that I am completely grateful for. That's why I keep making music, because I don't want to be ungrateful for the gift.
Prince -
Bless my enemies, O Lord, even I bless them and do not curse them.
Nikolaj Velimirovic -
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 -
I had to fight for wingdings. Batman needs to curse sometimes!
Scott Snyder -
It's not really a curse or anything that you're blind; it's really a blessing.
James Timothy Shaw -
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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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
Lois McMaster -
I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'
Steve Bisley -
It's not like I want to put myself on a high horse, but I just don't curse a lot.
Cassidy Erin Gifford -
You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.
Celia Rees