Quotes About Curse

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

For immediately in the beginning, after his original life of blessedness, the first man despised the command of God, and fell into this mortal and perishable state, and exchanged his former divinely inspired luxury for this curse-laden earth. His descendants having filled our earth, showed themselves much worse, with the exception of one here and there, and entered upon a certain brutal and insupportable mode of life.

Clovis had been listening to Finn with a very worried face. "But that's a sort of curse. Maia shouldn't live in a house that's been cursed." "I know. But nobody has cursed Maia--nobody in the world would do that. And Furo and the others have promised to look after her. They absolutely promised." "And you're not going to tell Maia?" "No. Definitely not. She's got enough to put up with with those awful twins.

When she of the night Drinks from he of the day The curse of the moon May the sun's curse allay. When she succumbs To the were's Scarlet Heat And is bred by the wolf Then meat may she eat And nevermore fear The sun's golden light When she drinks from the one Who howls in the night.

It is our sacred obligation to eliminate the curse of poverty in the shortest possible time. This is non-negotiable for the Republic.

In-N-Out is incredible, but don't tell coach I've been going there. He would flip out and put some curse on me.

For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings, it may become a scourge, a curse, and severe punishment to a people." What made it so, what turned power into a malignent force, was not its own nature so much as the nature of man—his susceptibility to corruption and his lust for self-aggrandizement.

Indebtedness is the poor man's curse. Just so, it's a county's curse . . . or a state's . . . or a nation's.

All right guys, fun is fun," Bamberger said, mixing in a few of his favorite Bronx-flavored curse words. "But these hot foots have got to stop." As Bamberger spoke, an unnamed player—it may have been Rick Cerone—lit his laces on fire, ending the meeting.

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Having a writer in the family is a curse - for the family. I do feel more or less guilty when I'm writing.

But then, no one ever experienced anyone else's life. That was the curse of individuality, and maybe the safety of it, too. The privacy of shame, of regret.

The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.

privea spre cer cu ochi plini de blesteme; dar nici m?car o frunz? nu se clinti din aceast? pricin?.

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

He enjoys life - as do all spared the curse of intelligence.

Madness was in all the Jermyns, and people were glad there were not many of them.

The history of the centuries in this valley is the history of an independent man who grapples barehanded with the spectre which bears a new and ever a newer name. Sometimes the spectre is some half-divine fiend who lays a curse on his land. Sometimes it breaks his bones in the guise of a norn. Sometimes it destroys his croft in the form of a monster. And yet, always, to all eternity, it is the same spectre assailing the same man century after century.

Since the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920, the refugees and the stateless have attached themselves like a curse to all the newly established states on earth which were created in the image of the nation-state.

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.

I always win, I'm cursed to win.

Cursed with conscience and damned with duty, because that's how we always reward the best of us.