Curse Quotes - Page 38

• Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

  Nancy Atherton

  Children, Suffering, Faces

  Nancy Atherton (1998). “Aunt Dimity's Good Deed”, p.152, Penguin

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• In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

  Randy Alcorn

  Blessing, Challenges, Way

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.85, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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  Whatever you goin' through, could always be much worse,
  Don't make a mistake, mistakin' your blessings for a curse.

  Joe Budden

  Mistake, Rap, Blessing

  Song: Welcome To Real Life

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• Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

  Kanye West

  Rap, Writing, Ignorance

  Song: Otis

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• But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Passion, Past, Thinking

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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• To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of the almighty. A really decent god-believer, far from giving thanks for the food and good health and fortune enjoyed by himself and his family and close friends, would surely curse God for his neglect of the hungry, the sick and the tormented, throughout the world.

  Barbara Smoker

  Selfish, Knowing, People

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• The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Reality, Needs, Awful

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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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• Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes . . .

  Stephen Sondheim

  Life, Goodbye, Children

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• Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Land, America, Perfection

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

  Richard Lamm

  Believe, Faces, Facts

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• I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Obsession, Compulsion, I Can

  "Juliana Hatfield on life after the spotlight fades". www.today.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Mean, Blessing

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• Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.

  Annie Dillard

  Self, Cities, Consciousness

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.82, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Independent, Men, Feminism

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