Best 298 quotes in «curse quotes» category

Write your bane in a sand, your blessing in a stone.

Yes, my friend, ship wreckage was once the wood of a tree, nothing special about it - just like any other kind of wood. Men cut down the tree. They sawed and worked and planed and shaped and polished and caulked and tarred it. They made a ship out it, and they celebrated the birth of that ship, they christened it like a child. And they entrusted themselves to it. But the men were no longer very much in charge. The ship too had its say. A ship’s a being in its own right, like a person, so to speak, that thinks, and breathes, and reacts. A ship has its own mission to accomplish. It has its own destiny. So it sinks, this vessel, it founders because it was meant to founder, on such a day at such a time, on account of this or that, and in such a place. Maybe it was already written in the stars. And then long afterwards, other men discover the wreck, they refloat it, they bring to the surface the bits of wood — and you should see with what respect they do this. And you think a piece of wreckage like that doesn’t know anything, doesn’t remember anything, isn’t capable of anything, that it’s as senseless as it is hard, that it’s. . . as thick as a plank? I’ll tell you something worth remembering, that sailors well know: wood from a shipwreck is “back-flash” wood. Whatever takes place under the auspices and under the sign of even the smallest fragment ot a shipwreck cuts more than just one way. One swinish deed is multiplied a thousandfold; one flower’, (he meant, a kindness),'will bring you a field full of flowers, an entire province, tulips, cyclamens, take your pick. For instance: there’s shipwreck wood in the base frame of the sign of the four sergeants. That’s something “the likes of us” know. Well, once that guy was through,’ (he meant, the man who’d been praying), ‘I guarantee, the judge, every member of the jury, the prosecutor, the warders, the hangman, his assistants, the whole damn lot of them are going to get their comeuppance, and how! From now on they’re jinxed. Seriously jinxed. And for a long time to come.

Yes, sir!” And Crevay, too, departed, filled with the energy that comes to every man when treated like a man and given a man’s work to do.

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.

You may not curse the enemies of your progress, but you can't ever pray that they will rise and become somebody in life. Because they are meant to be under your feet.

You're special, Deirdre, and don't ever think otherwise.

You're murderers," she told the stunned crowd. "You killed him. He was a miracle, and you killed him. Now you've just got me. And I'm a curse.

You've never heard of the Truscott Curse?" Asked the old lady, slowly rocking her body from side to side as if she were about to start dancing. Spanelli looked at her puzzlingly. "The Truscott Curse? I don't understand what you mean." "The curse girl. Don't you know that every child who's ever lived in that house has disappeared?

A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.

A desert blessing, an ocean curse.

A light purse is a heavy curse.

Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!

A public debt is a public curse.

Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.

Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside.

Books are the curse of the human race.

Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will Curse you.

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

... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust.

Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile

Curse false-hand-holding boys!

Curse Hermes and his multi-vitamins!

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day!

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.

Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.

Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy.

I can be very reactionary. It's a gift and a curse.

Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.

He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

I don't believe in curses, I think you make your own destination.

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

I curse Microsoft at least once a day. I only curse Apple every other day. As I see it, that's a 100 percent improvement.

I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

I feel there is a curse on rock stars.

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

I'm Italian and we curse a lot when we talk.