Quotes About Curse

She'd once admitted during confession that she felt doomed to bear only sons, like a curse from the Devil. In penitence she was ordered to recite a rosary every day for two years straight and to make a sizable donation to the church renovation fund. Her husband forbade her from returning to confession.

The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!

The curse of cyberspace is that everything we want to preserve will get lost and everything we want to lose will be preserved.

Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day!

The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.

Wife of Lir eat horse.

generosity as a means of controlling someone is no gift at all. It's a curse.

Muttering a curse, he wiped his face with a towel and wondered why everyone suddenly felt that they had to offer an opinion on his love life, although he was fairly sure he had never asked for anyone's views on the matter.

There's got to be something you can do with them, or they will literally drive you crazy. Women out of control are a curse—and if you don't put a stop to it, you'll regret it bitterly later on.

Being gifted means facing the next level of depth without ever being repulsed by the curse that comes with the magic of being different.

The seasons are colliding together, storms are destroying lives, and love is a dangerous curse.-The Vangeretta Curse

The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.

She was patient,—a martyr, indeed,—but she forbore to pray for her enemies; lest, in spite of her forgiving aspirations, the words of the blessing should stubbornly twist themselves into a curse.

The eternally sleeping princess, thinks Cam. But I shall free you from those poisoned brambles that surround your heart. And then you will have no choice but to love me.

I think all young women are cursed with a streaks of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.

Tu n'es pas digne qu'on t'enlève A ton esclavage maudit, Imbécile! – de son empire Si nos efforts te délivraient, Tes baiser ressusciteraient Le cadavre de ton vampire!

Cassandra, Troy-born daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, knew the future, and no one believed her. At least most of the time that was what occurred. Apollo gave her the great gift of prophecy because he was confident that she was going to sleep with him; when, in the end, she refused, the god spat in her mouth, leaving behind the curse that no one would ever believe a word that she said. And so she lived with frustration and dread.

And so incessant, it seemed to him later, had been this tyranny of strength, that in his young wild twenties when his great boneframe was powerfully fleshed at last, and he heard about him the loud voices, the violent assertion, the empty threat, memory would waken in him a maniacal anger, and he would hurl the insolent intruding swaggerer from his path, thrust back the hostler, glare insanely into fearful surprised faces and curse them.

My diagnosis, he said for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

Free will, as C.S. Lewis said, 'is the modus operandi of destiny'. Fate, too, chooses one's fellow hotel guests. I cursed mine inaudibly.

She wants to be something creative,' he murmured. 'It's not something to want. It's something you have. It's a curse. One she doesn't have.

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

Maggie waved a gnarled finger in my direction. "Mention one word," she said, voice sharp but grey eyes twinkling with merriment, "and I'll curse your sex life for the next year." I snorted. "Curse away. It can't get any worse." She shook her head. "How can a siren have such a pathetic love life?" "Because I'm a siren who can't actually sing, remember?

People were suddenly subject to the curse, which caused them to perform for identity instead of operating out of their identity. This has led to all sorts of perversions - people working for love instead of from love, for instance, and men and women measuring their relationship with God by their disciplines instead of by their passion.