Cursed Quotes - Page 10

• Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Ends, Wander

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.110, Canongate Books

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• Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.

  Willard Gaylin

  Blessed, Animal, Safety

  Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr

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• I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

  Dirk Benedict

  Voice, People, Example

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• Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Nature Of Man

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• I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

  Miguel Najdorf

  Play, Chess, Opponents

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• Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

  Arthur Koestler

  Wisdom, Blessed, Power

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• I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.

  Winifred Holtby

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

  Ethel Mumford

  Prodigies, Born, Infant

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• Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Bears, Pleasure, Fullness

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• I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

  Tim Matheson

  Kids, Lucky, Actors

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 17, 2009.

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• At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Lakes

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages,
  That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone!
  If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him,
  His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Brother, Suffering, Pages

  "Roman Elegies". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Elegy 2 (First version), 1902.

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• The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Oil, Would Be

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes-not elsewhere-I believe that a woman can best rule and save the world.

  T.C. Boyle

  Believe, Home, Simple

  T. C. Boyle (2012). “San Miguel”, p.130, A&C Black

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• William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod,
  Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell:
  'The nakedness of woman is the work of God',
  Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

  Allen Tate

  Heaven, Flesh, Titles

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.192, Macmillan

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• When Adam found his rib was gone
  He cursed and sighed and cried and swore
  And looked with cold resentment on
  The creature God has used it for.

  John Hollander

  Ribs, Gone, Resentment

  John Hollander (1978). “Spectral emanations: new and selected poems”

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• If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.

  Barbara Holland

  Bullying, Children, Cat

  Barbara Holland (1989). “Secrets of the Cat: It's [sic] Lore, Legend, and Lives”

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• It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Bless, Inhuman

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• Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Blessed, Hands, Gentleman

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.271, Wordsworth Editions

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• Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.

  Jon Stewart

  Song, Blessed, People

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• When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Enemy, Add

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• The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Real, Adventure

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• More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Envy, Sin, Despise

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• I too have learned this in my experiences with the Spirit of God. Every situation can be redeemed and turned into exactly the preparation we require for a fullness of joy-to the extent of ourfaith in Christ's redemptive power. To that extent, the very circumstances we may have cursed will turn out to be our schooling for salvation.

  C. Terry Warner

  Joy, Preparation, May

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• Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.

  Evangeline Booth

  Suicide, Children, Home

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