“Clovis had been listening to Finn with a very worried face. “But that’s a sort of curse. Maia shouldn’t live in a… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled.… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have to go in with Raquel and fix this curse. Why don’t you come in and . . . umm, lie… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Percy Jackson," Hermes said, "because you have taken on the curse of Achilles, I must spare you. You are in the hands… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
“Squeezed against each other in the heavy heat, they were silent...looking toward the home that was expecting them--quiet, perspiring, resigned to this… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“He says nothing. Not because he disagrees, or disapproves, but because he’s crying. Faintly I hear my father sniffling and wiping away… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“He uttered a curse that startled her with its foulness, and gripped her head between his hands, forcing her to stare at… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners… — Erich Ludendorff Copy Share Image
When Jesus was baptized by John, the heavens opened and the Dove descended upon Him. Immediately thereafter, that same Dove drove Him… — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
“In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods — her fertile fields… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Death is not a curse to be outwitted no matter the cost. Death is the natural pivot on which life turns, without… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“And tongues, loose from those same commercial spirits and delights, cry out, shouting my name, or cursing it. Not the name my… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a blessing and curse. You can't look away from creating more and always want to do better and you will… — Crestless Wave Copy Share Image
“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are.… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
“How can it surprise any of you that loves could break the curse? You, whose very genetic makeup forces you to love… — Quinn Loftis Copy Share Image
The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“We are all cursed. We live in the era of the curse. A world that cannot be fixed. The best thing would… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So in addition to a feisty new Black Court partner in the war dance between the Council and the Vampire Courts, I… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Every Night I get a Curse I guess Its Time that I have Nothing Left To Say its all My Fault I… — Imagine Dragon Songs Copy Share Image
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image