Cursed Quotes - Page 6

• Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

  Mary MacLane

  People, May, Littles

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• To say I live a cursed life is an understatement. I have to get up every day and work with people who are not as successful as me nor will they ever be as successful as me. Nobody knows the struggles I go through.

  Zach Braff

  Struggle, Successful, People

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• Yes, you're very very old
  But try to think of it as not being cursed
  After all, in a hostage situation
  You'd be released first!

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Thinking, Trying

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• I am cursed with a right leg that arouses the desire of any male dog that happens to be passing. I used to think that this only happened to me but I've discovered that many people have the same problem. They have a femme fatale limb.

  Jasper Carrott

  Funny, Dog, Thinking

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• I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Power, Law Of Attraction, Mind

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• We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

  S. Parkes Cadman

  Father, Animal, Men

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• I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.

  Jim Palmer

  Hate, Spring, Sleep

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• You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Broken Heart, Angel, Night

  Anna Akhmatova, “You Thought I Was That Type”

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• The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

  Andy Behrman

  Broken, Guilt, Six

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• In the new covenant, God doesn't want us to be blessed when we obey the law and cursed when we fail. Doesn't such a system sound awfully similar to the old covenant? Grace is the undeserved, unmerited and unearned favor of God - the moment you try to merit the free favors of God, His grace is nullified.

  Joseph Prince

  Blessed, Law, Grace

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• To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. We name experiences, emotions, and subjective states and assume that what is named is as enduring as its name. Human beings blessed and cursed with consciousness - especially consciousness of their own being - think in terms of names, words, symbols.

  James Bugental

  Blessed, Thinking, Names

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• My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Teacher, Blessed

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• In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you're traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There's just one can set you free.

  Ben Harper

  Blessed, Want, Worst

  Song: One Road to Freedom, Album: Fight for Your Mind, 1995

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• The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good & bad, right & wrong, yours & mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life,' metamorphosis.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Good Life, Acceptance

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• You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Dad, Men

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

  Voltaire

  Life, Men, Stories

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• Kira is evil ... There's no denying that ... But lately I've been starting to think of it more like this ... The real evil is the power to kill people. Someone who finds himself with that power is cursed. No matter how you use it, anything obtained by killing people can never bring true happiness.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stupid, People, Dull

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Peter Bell The Third”

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• Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

  Stella Benson

  Family, Ties, Alive

  Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a dancer”

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• The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames

  Virgil

  Gold, Hunger, Fame

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• When I was like 12 or 13,Muhammad Ali gave me a pair of his trunks that were white satin with gold stripes. They were full of blood, and my mother threw them away. I think it's the first time I ever cursed at my mother.

  Mickey Rourke

  Mother, Thinking, Blood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

  Blaise Pascal

  Peace, Believe, Men

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• A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

  May Sarton

  Mistake, Men, Order

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.

  Greg Koukl

  Tree, Galatians

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• Honestly, Ive been very blessed. Yes, I am cursed with this gift.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Blessed, Honest, Honestly

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