Quotes About Curse

Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.

The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

So what is this feadnach? Is it another curse that makes me beholden to slaves and shrews?' 'No, my lord. It is your heart. Difficult as it may be to comprehend, there is a possibility you may have one.

The Plains, Willa Cather wrote years later, are "the happiness and the curse of my life."104

Henry Castellanos wrote in New Orleans as It Was that; 'No spirits wander through its wide halls...but in lieu thereof there rests a curse...that follows everyone who has ever attempted to make it a permanent habitation...every venture has proved a ruinous failure.' It is indeed true that from the 183os until present, many of the institutions and tenants that tried to occupy the "Haunted House" have experienced financial insolvency or bad luck.

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.

But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent: Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race; There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life;

My merry, merry, merry roundelayConcludes with Cupid's curse:They that do change old love for new,Pray gods, they change for worse!

Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.

I do solemnly proclaim Tyrion of House Lannister and Sansa of House Stark to be man and wife, one flesh, one heart, one soul, now and forever, and cursed be the one who comes between them.

We had never built, never created, only stolen your garments and lived in your cities and fed ourselves on your life, your vitality, your very blood—but we could create, given a chance, we had it within us to whisper stories of cities of our own. The red thirst has been a curse, has made my race and yours enemies, has robbed my people of all noble aspirations.

You ought to thank me for killing your enemy," Jon said finally, "and curse me for killing your friend.

Mia moglie? Che gli Estranei se la portino alla dannazione!

The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.

A plague o' both your houses.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Oh, what an unbearable yoke is free will! What a vicious curse of the gods, granting self-determination to creatures incapable of guiding themselves! What good parent would free a child among tigers?

She felt sorry for the female who had been driven to such traits. Who had kept herself apart from all emotions. The female had been born under a curse. The female had done evil and had evil done unto her. The female had hardened herself, her mind and her emotions becoming steel. The female had been wrong about that locking down, that self-containment. It was not a case of strength, as she always told herself. It was strictly survival...

And then he let out a predatory hiss— —and bit her so hard she had to hold back a curse. Now

She felt sorry for the female who had been driven to such traits. Who had kept herself apart from all emotions. The female had been born under a curse. The female had done evil and had evil done unto her. The female hardened herself, her mind and her emotions becoming steel. The female had been wrong about that locking down, that self containment. It was not a case of strength, as she always told herself. It was strictly survival...

His eyes narrowed as he cast his vision upon the face. Thinking that there was membrane or the like masking the young, he cast his hand down the features that were a mixture of his and the female's. Alas…it changed naught. "What curse is this?" he demanded. "What curse…is this!

El tiempo es un lujo, lo creas o no —dijo. —A mí me parece una maldición.