Quotes About Curse

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.

A plague o' both your houses!They have made worms' meat of me.

O curse of marriage!That we can call these delicate creatures ours,And not their appetites. I had rather be a toad,And live upon the vapor of a dungeon,Than keep a corner in the thing I loveFor others' uses.

I wish you joy of the worm.

A plague o' both your houses

While interviewing at the Hunan women's prison:) 'I have lived with several men, and let them amuse themselves with me. Because of that, I have been sent to two labour reeducation camps and been sentenced to prison twice. (...) When people curse me for having no shame, I don't get angry. All the Chinese care about is "face", but they don't understand how their faces are linked to the rest of their bodies.

Everyone likes me. It's my curse.

We all laughed and I remembered back when I thought I could live forever, back when I wanted to, back before I knew what a curse it really was.

You know the Tower of Babel, right? You went to Sunday School?" "Yeah, sure. In ancient times everybody on earth spoke the same language, then they decided to build a tower that would reach all the way up to heaven. Then God cursed everybody on the job site to each speak a different language to mess them up.

But the timing of his demise only added to the sensationalist stories, and rumors began to circulate of a curse placed upon the expedition by the restless spirit of the disturbed princess.

It was a writers' curse, this verbal embroidery. Never seeing anything as it was, always analyzing and reformulating it. Maybe the entire habit of observation, the thing he trained himself in, was just a nervous tic, a compulsion.

Perché non riusciva a decidersi? Che cosa ci guadagnava a stare in mare, lontano da chi amava? Quale maledizione aveva colpito lui e tanti altri, che non trovavano il senso della vita se non lontano da ogni attracco?

Will is underrated as a therapeutic agent, an instrument of transformation and self-determination – sometimes the only tool a person can call upon in extremis. There is nothing natural or spontaneous about it. To make a blessing out of a curse is a genuine triumph of will, and transforming shame into pride a rare form of alchemy.

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

You are allowed one final statement, Mera of Xebel. It will be relayed to the Atlantean Council. Perhaps a curse upon our real? Or a loving goodbye to King Arthur? Mera: Surrender. Now.

No podía dormir: había presencias extrañas en torno a su casa, como si un maleficio lanzado contra él y su familia desde hacía muchos siglos hubiera empezado a tomar forma aquella noche.

Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.

She left the web, she left the loom,She made three paces thro' the room,She saw the water-lily bloom,She saw the helmet and the plume,She look'd down to Camelot.Out flew the web and floated wide;The mirror crack'd from side to side."The curse is come upon me," criedThe Lady of Shalott.

One who offers (suggests) what he doesn't know, will be under the curse of the angels of the heavens and the earth.

It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.

Love is a gift. Passion is a curse

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

Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it.