Curse Quotes - Page 15

• True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

  Morgan Wootten

  Basketball, Teacher, Coaches

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• You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes.

  Jim Rohn

  Country, Rain, Sunshine

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 03, 2013

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• If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1904). “A tale of two cities, with intr., notes, and analytical list of characters”

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• I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Negative, Doe, Use

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• How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Believe, Law, Atheism

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• And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

  Charles Dickens

  Compassion, Punishment, Vanity

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume”, p.3513, e-artnow

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• A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.

  Johannes Kepler

  Time, Dirty, Feet

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• How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

  Winston Churchill

  Dog, Men, Muslim Faith

  "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

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• The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

  Mark Twain

  Biblical, Discovery, Innovation

  Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

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• I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

  Roger McDonald

  Blessing, Earth, Poverty

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• He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

  William Blake

  Revenge, Law, Dies

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.313, Pearson Education

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• The curse of marriage
  That we can call these delicate creatures ours
  And not their appetites!

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Vapor, Adultery

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

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• The Lamanites [Native Americans], now a down-trodden people, are a remnant of the house of Israel. The curse of God has followed them as it has done the Jews, though the Jews have not been darkened in their skin as have the Lamanites.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Native American, Israel, People

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• Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Blessing, Clouds

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.396

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• The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Thinking, Feminism, Modern Woman

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• There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Chess, Remorse

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• Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.

  Julian Barnes

  Wine, Blessing, Global Warming

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• Long live the weeds that overwhelm
  My narrow vegetable realm!
  The bitter rock, the barren soil
  That force the son of man to toil;
  All things unholy, marred by curse,
  The ugly of the universe.

  Theodore Roethke

  Weed, Son, Men

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.39, Anchor

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• The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently. . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it - and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they Christians take in politics.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Men, Voting

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• It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark
  In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks

  K'naan

  Eye, Dark, Light

  Song: In The Beginning

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• I was born a premature birth.
  My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse"
  My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.

  Eminem

  Hip Hop, Firsts, Birth

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• The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Epic, Apathy, University

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• The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Hate, Past

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• If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

  John Flavel

  Love, Family, Weed

  John Flavel (1840). “Divine Conduct: Or, The Mystery of Providence, Wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence are Asserted and Vindicated ... and the Proper Course of Improving All Providences Pointed Out”, p.58

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• It is yet to be decided whether the Revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse: a blessing or a curse, not to the present age alone, for with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved.

  George Washington

  Fate, Destiny, Blessing

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.442

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