Curse Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.

— Anonymous

“Nothing great enters the life of mortals without a curse.”

— Sophocles

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes…

— Joseph Addison

We'de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what sort of…

— Rick Riordan

Good is the enemy of great.

— Anonymous

“And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.”

— Daniel Defoe

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

— Eckhart Tolle

“  Yet somtimes Nations will decline so low   From vertue, which is reason, that no wrong,   But Justice, and some fatal curse annext   Deprives them…

— John Milton

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The great appear great to us…

— James Connolly

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

— Elizabeth Hardwick