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Quotes About Curse

generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy, and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
All however agreed, that the spot was fatal to the Ravenswood family; and to drink of the waters of the well or even approach its brink, was ominous to a descendant of that house, as for a Grahame to wear green, a Bruce to kill a spider, or a St. Clair to cross the Ord on a Monday.
~ Walter Scott
Dinna curse him, sir," said the old woman; "I have heard a good man say that a curse was like a stone flung up to the heavens, and maist like to return on the head that sent it.
~ Walter Scott
Indifference is the curse of this age. Indifference is evil, and it couldn't be farther from the heart of God. Afterword - On Digging a Well p. 359
~ Charles Martin
Indifference is the curse of this age. We need to hear that. Indifference is evil, and it could not be further from the heart of God. Don't think so? Let me point you to the Cross. Hanging there, Jesus was anything but indifferent. Don't think I've somehow got a handle
~ Charles Martin
Indifference is the curse of this age. We need to hear that. Indifference is evil, and it could not be further from the heart of God.
~ Charles Martin
Indifference is the curse of this age. We need to hear that. Indifference is evil, and it could not be further from the heart of God. Don't think so? Let me point you to the Cross. Hanging there, Jesus was anything but indifferent.
~ Charles Martin
You are a curse in my life!
~ Charles Perrault
But Mr. Glanville was in a terrible Confusion, and silently cursed his ill Fate, to make him in Love with a Woman so ridiculous.
~ Charlotte Lennox
Someone told me I need to stop dropping F-bombs. What the [f*@%] is an F-bomb?
~ Internet meme
Word is a four-letter word.
~ Author unknown, 1970s
[I]t is out of the lore and experience of the ancients and all of those who have studied the powers of the Un-Dead. When they become such, there comes with the change the curse of immortality; they cannot die, but must go on age after age adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world; for all that die from the preying of the Un-Dead become themselves Un-Dead, and prey on their kind. And so the circle goes on ever widening, like as the ripples from a stone thrown in the water.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
~ Hannah Arendt
Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
~ Hannah More
Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.
~ Harlan Coben
We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
Love is a blessing, but it turns into a curse in attachment.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel, and fall into a sleep like death! —Maleficent
~ Laurie B. Friedman
The locust continues to devour the world Hunger persists Love lurches on listing to starboard like a ship in a bottle Human longing goes on Loneliness a curse Innocence persists Ignorance persists
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Blake took great pride in his skill: "I defy any man to cut cleaner strokes than I do, or rougher when I please." But he also acknowledged that "engraving is eternal work.... I curse and bless engraving alternately because it takes so much time and is so intractable, though capable of such beauty and perfection.
~ Leo Damrosch
He'd said, "Remember that Chinese curse, 'May you live in interesting times'? The dairy farmer's curse is, may you have an interesting herd of cows.
~ Jane Smiley
I have bad car juju. -Stephanie Plum
~ Janet Evanovich
Fuck, Ranger said. Ranger didn't often curse and he rarely raised his voice. The fuck has been entirely conversational. Like he was now midly inconvenienced. He put his Bates boot to the door and the door popped open..
~ Janet Evanovich
Mrs. Morelli opened the door to us and smacked Joe on the side of the head. Sex fiend. Just like your father, God rest his rotten soul. Morelli grinned down at his mother. It's a curse.
~ Janet Evanovich