Curse Quotes
There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
The fact that we are aware of ourselves is both our greatest curse and also our greatest blessing.
I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal. It's normal.
I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?
Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life.
I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.
Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.
Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.
I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.
The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.
No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.
As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.
Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.
Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.
We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative to carbon-based fuel. That's the #1 problem.
But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
When our Lord looked at us, He saw not only what we were -- He was faithful in seeing what we could become! He took away the curse of being and gave us the glorious blessing of becoming.
The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.
The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.
In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend