Curse Quotes - Page 36

• Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

  Clarence Darrow

  Wealth

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Past, Alcohol, United States

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• Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Morning, Blessing

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.170, tredition

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• Adjectives are the curse of America.

  Rita Mae Brown

  America, Adjectives

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• We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Travel, Horse, Ideas

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.2

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• We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Mean, Men, Creative

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• If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.

  Andrew Jackson

  Blessed, Fall, Hands

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• That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Ill Will, Way

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.863

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• Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

  Ayn Rand

  Enemy, Religion, Mankind

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• What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To say the word Art, it's almost like a curse on art. I do know that I want to try to get closer to myself. The older I get, the more indications I have about what it is to get closer to yourself. You try less hard. I just want to be.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Art, Thinking, Trying

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• For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and twice grown cold. From many a pilgrim have you had Christ's curse, For of your parsley they yet fare the worse, Which they have eaten with your stubble goose; For in your shop full many a fly is loose.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Food, Blood, Cooking

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• Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.

  Alicia Keys

  Wall, Blessing, Paper

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• I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Want, Able, Scream

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• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  Karl Kraus

  Sorry, Law, Abortion

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

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• The curse of the cable industry over all these years as an operating reality is that every year the debt goes up (and) all the money generated gets reinvested, and then some.

  John C. Malone

  Reality, Years, Debt

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• I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for . . . the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Work, Believe, Blessed

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2712, Library of Alexandria

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• If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says, "Woe unto you people!!" Who says, "Woe unto me that I cannot help you?" The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Strong, Mean

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.400, Manonmani Publishers

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• Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Doe

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.25, Booklassic

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• I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

  Irving Penn

  Photography, Art, Long

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• The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.

  Mother Teresa

  Strong, People, Giving

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• Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

  Theodore Dwight Weld

  Heart, Men, Slavery

  Theodore Dwight Weld (2014). “American Slavery As It Was - The Background Of Twelve Years A Slave”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies.

  Max Stirner

  Stupid, Swings, Self

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• Death is not a curse to be outwitted no matter the cost. Death is the natural pivot on which life turns, without which life as we know it could not be. A pro-life-support position is not always a pro-life position. When we can no longer hold on with purpose, to let go is to die with dignity and grace.

  Forrest Church

  Letting Go, Pro Life, Support

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• People think the film industry is going to corrupt me, but I feel like it's kept me more innocent, in a way. I wasn't really home when my friends were trying pot for the first time. I was always around adults who wouldn't smoke or curse or do anything like that around me. I don't do things that are dangerous to myself. I don't want to hurt myself

  Natalie Portman

  Hurt, Home, Thinking

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• Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life.

  Robert Greene

  Later In Life, Envy, Focus

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.56, Profile Books

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