Curse Quotes · Page 19

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

— Ally Carter

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

— Douglas Coupland

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

— Hutch Harris

You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone…

— Celia Rees

There are no such things as curses; only people and their decisions

— Yvonne Wood

I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends

— Dan Fogelberg

I always assumed that my otherness was a curse - that I would be held back by my Asian and queer identities.

— Eugene Lee Yang

Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

— Calvin Coolidge

“Mary: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put…

— Margaret Atwood

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which…

— Sienna Miller

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

— Anonymous

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love…

— Franz Kafka

I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies…

— Nicki Minaj

I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to…

— Andrew Jackson

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his…

— Martin Scorsese

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it…

— Lauren Kate

[W]hen Ben was kissing me, the whole world retreated. I felt things I'd never felt before, in places I never knew were…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required…

— Philip K. Dick

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“People were suddenly subject to the curse, which caused them to perform for identity instead of operating out of their identity. This…

— Kris Vallotton

The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on…

— Henrik Ibsen

Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and…

— Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes…

— Gautama Buddha

If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse.

— Simon Beaufoy

“Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

— Anonymous

“It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body. You were only as cursed as you allowed yourself to be.”

— Libba Bray

“It is the curse to search you in every person I meet, the curse with no cure”

— ehddah

Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal

— Thrity Umrigar

“The man gave Dodger a cursory glance that had quite a lot of curse in it.”

— Terry Pratchett

We each have our belssings and our curses. In the end it makes us equals.

— Elizabeth Haydon

“Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can't, don't, and won't are the worst.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a…

— Lady Gaga

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

— Nancy Atherton

The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious

— Martin Luther

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

— William Blake

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend…

— Armand Assante

The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott

— Alfred Lord Tennyson