Curse Quotes - Page 24

• The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first.

  Drake

  Past, Purses, Firsts

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• Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Thank God, Phases, Fame

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• As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.

  Kevin Powers

  Blessing, Normal, Matter

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• A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Lying, Silence, Wake Up

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.73, Penguin

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• Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.

  George R. R. Martin

  Liars, Kissing, Kiss Me

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1874, Bantam

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• You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

  Stephen King

  Father, Writing, Kids

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out...So, if someone's changed overnight - by witch curse or poison apple or were-turtle - you have to show them what's good. You show them love. That works a surprising amount of the time.

  Anne Ursu

  Believe, Winning, Turtles

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• 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 curse we'de unleash: monster guardians, plagues, fires, exploding donkeys(don't laugh; they're bad news).

  Rick Riordan

  Mistake, Fire, Laughing

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• There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.

  David Gemmell

  Strong, Kings, Men

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• There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

  Thornton Wilder

  Self, Hatred, Needs

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• I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Country, Worship, Willing

  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.20, editionNEXT.com

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• Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing more for him than to marry and start a family, but if he showed up at her doorstep and said that he'd met someone two days ago and knew she was the one for him, his mother would smack him with a broom, curse in Italian, and drag him to church, sure that he had some serious sins that needed confessing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mother, Brother, Believe

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• Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

  Matthew Kelly

  World, Modern, Superficiality

  Matthew Kelly (2002). “Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose”, p.71, BookBaby

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• The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Islands, Smell

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.98, Scholastic UK

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• 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 sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Children, Crazy, Despair

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• A hint of sensual frustration roughened his voice. “And I will curse the gods along with them, Min. Some wild monsoon raged through me as I looked at you just now. It’s left me rearranged inside, and I don’t have a map.

  Tessa Dare

  Frustration, Voice, Sensual

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• Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

  Alan Watts

  Order, Names, Knowing

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

  John Adams

  Mankind, Possession, Property

  John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor “Papers of John Adams”, Harvard University Press

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• Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.

  Cornelia Funke

  Darkness Within, World, Assuming

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.462, Scholastic Inc.

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• This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Kissing, Dancing

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.69, Scholastic Inc.

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

  Elizabeth Haydon

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• Hi, my name is Jareth, and I'll be your- God" He curses as he lays his eyes on me. I raised an eyebrow. "You'll be my god? Hm...Well, we'll have to see about that. I mean, it takes a lot to my world these days.

  Mari Mancusi

  Mean, Eye, Names

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• Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Blessed, Blessing, Hands

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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• I am black,” she said, and a shudder rippled through me. “I am foul with a thousand years of demon curses. Don’t cross me or I will bring you and your house down. Rachel is the only clean thing I have, and you won’t sully her to further your high ideas.

  Kim Harrison

  Years, Ideas, House

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• The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Common

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