Curse Quotes - Page 39

• The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.

  Max Weber

  Father, Different, Tasks

  "Max Weber". Book by Reinhard Bendix, p. 53, 1960.

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• I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

  Robert Sheckley

  Blessing, World, Novel

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• There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Work, Men, People

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• The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

  Mark Gatiss

  Real, Thinking, Horror Stories

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• I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Thinking, Engineering, Ideas

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• The curse of the sun and the moon is fake. It doesn`t exist.

  Elijah

  Moon, Fake, Sun

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• It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Men, White Man

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• When our Lord looked at us, He saw not only what we were -- He was faithful in seeing what we could become! He took away the curse of being and gave us the glorious blessing of becoming.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Blessing, Faithful, Saws

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• The fact that we are aware of ourselves is both our greatest curse and also our greatest blessing.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Blessing, Facts, Awareness

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• To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doubt, Age, Quests

  Deepak Chopra (2011). “Unconditional Life: Discovering the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams”, p.81, Bantam

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• A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

  Theodor Haecker

  Sight, Hands, Wish

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• An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should exist among the people of God. It is a principle originated in hell; it is the root of all evils. It is inequality in riches that is a great curse.

  Orson Pratt

  Roots, People, Evil

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• Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wise, Cutting, Men

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.93, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

  John W. Gardner

  Fate, Men, Pay

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• I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Shut Up, Miserable, Enjoyment

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus”, p.160, First Avenue Editions

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• No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

  Plato

  Death, Blessing, Men

  Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

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• Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively.

  Haile Selassie

  Determination, Fall, Hard Work

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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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• The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Marriage, Lying, Giving

  "The Second Sex". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by H. M. Parshley. Book 2, Part 5, Chapter 2: "The Mother", p. 522, 1972.

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• So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Complexion

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. [22]

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