Curse Quotes · Page 28

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

— Douglas Coupland

In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.

— W. S. Gilbert

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

— Eugene Lee Yang

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

— Simon Beaufoy

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

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Celia Rees

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

— Hutch Harris

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

— Yvonne Wood

Even here in California with more contemporary buildings. I have a real problem with the low doorframes. It's a curse! That's just…

— Stephen Merchant

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a…

— John F. Kennedy

Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very…

— Dorothy Parker

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you…

— Khalil Gibran

“Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“An orphans curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! How more horrible that that Is the curse…

— Anonymous

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our…

— Anais Nin

Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in?…

— Stevie Smith

When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose…

— Jonah Hill

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But…

— Sharon Van Etten

“Curse him to eternal damnation! Yes! Of course!" came the emotional reply. "Don't curse him," I said softly. "Remember--he's only a machine,…

— Jack L. Chalker

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are…

— Henry Miller

The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act…

— Lou Holtz

“Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none…

— Aeschylus

“But you know, a wizard with black hair and a thick mustache put a curse on Moscow, and Petrograd, too, so that…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival,…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

— Dan Fogelberg

“To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The curse of imagination is picturing the world as it should be.”

— Morley

You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.

— Mort Sahl

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

— Thomas Chalmers

“It seems to me that we can be the angriest with those we love most—what a curse, what a trick.”

— Catherine Lacey

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

— Anne Rice

“Tis the curse of a woman of influence that she must always be reckoned unvirtuous.”

— Susanna Kearsley

“Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.”

— T.F. Hodge

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

— E. F. Schumacher

It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a…

— Tobias Forge

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.

— Sam Storms

“It is always easier to curse in another language than your own!”

— Evan c. currie

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

— Theodore Roosevelt

“And because of who we are we react in mock surprise. The curse of there must be more so don't breath here.”

— Steven Wilson