Quotes with curse

  • The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
  • A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
  • All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
  • 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!
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  • Robert Penn Warren I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism - that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.
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  • Joseph Addison Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Confucius It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • William Faulkner A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Anna Quindlen All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • John Gay An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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!
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • William Shakespeare And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
    Henry VI 4, 7
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carter G. Woodson 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.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • William Arthur Ward Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • William Blake Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Alexander Pope Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Easy writings curse is hard reading.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Hannah Arendt 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
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Anzia Yezierska Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Alice Hoffman I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
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  • Henry Miller I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Paul Auster I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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