Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!
I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.
By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.
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.
All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?
Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.
The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.
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
If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.
Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.
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.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
. . . moral evil is its own curse.
The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.