Curse Quotes

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

I feel there is a curse on rock stars.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.