Cursed Quotes - Page 2

• The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society - we are on the eve of universal change.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Civilization, Issues, Long

  Eugene V. Debs' open letter to the American Railway Union, as quoted in "Chicago Railway Times", January 1, 1897.

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• The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hamlet And Ophelia, Joints

  1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.189-90.

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• What is this love that more than all the cursed deadly or any other of its great movers so moves the soul and soul what is this soul that more than by any of its great movers is by love so moved?

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Moving, Soul

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.92, Faber & Faber

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• The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful. I believe that Americans by and large have been cursed with blessings, and perhaps before long we'll be blessed with cursings. However, the assaults against the church will be turned around, and everything that the enemy meant for harm will ultimately be used for good.

  Adrian Rogers

  Powerful, Blessed, Believe

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• Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Blessed, Curiosity, Next

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Dying, Age

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• We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Art, Regret

  Letter to Hugh Walpole, August 21, 1913.

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• In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

  Craig Ferguson

  Type 2 Diabetes, Vampire, Boring

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• Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.

  A. E. Housman

  Strength, Luck, Towers

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.114, Delphi Classics

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• My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Flight

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• My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.

  John Green

  Parent, Faces, Pleasure

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.106, A&C Black

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• After a moment the king said, "So be it." Zsadist cursed. Butch whistled low. Rhage bit into a Tootsie Pop.

  J.R. Ward

  Kings, Zsadist, Moments

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.577, Penguin

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• Kissing can ruin lives. Lips touch sometimes teeth clash. New hunger is born with a throb and caution falls away. A cursed girl with lips still moist from her first kiss might feel suddenly wild like a little monsoon. She might forget her curse just long enough to get careless and let it come true. She might kill everyone she loves.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Fall, Kissing

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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• Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Blessed, Looks, Littles

  Song: Child of the Wind

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• The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, "Enna, you might watch your language." Enna grimaced. "I was. You should hear my thoughts.

  Shannon Hale

  Watches, Frozen, Earth

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.79, A&C Black

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• Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hate, Lying, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They had seen Zarek take out a pair of Daimons. Great. Just great. He closed his eyes and cursed. This night was starting to rate right up there with abscessed teeth.’ (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Night, Teeth

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.554, Macmillan

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• For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

  Scott Lynch

  Art, Men, Mirrors

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.675, Del Rey

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• They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?

  Kate Braverman

  Love, Men, Marijuana

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• You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings.

  Lauren Kate

  Blessing, Prelude, Said

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.1116, Delacorte Press

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• ‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.

  David Benioff

  Greatness, Two, World

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.78, Penguin

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• Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped to count the cost? We are the ones backed by right We must strike with bold and might The cursed ones blamless be Warm them of the Hunters you see

  Nancy Holder

  War, Battle, Doe

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• Cursed?" I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears. "It isn't cursed." John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, "if you're wearing it. It's blessed.

  Meg Cabot

  Blessed, Voice, Tears

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• So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Country, Long, Vampire

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