The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.
Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse
Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]
It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.
My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.
To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.
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.
You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.
It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.
Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.
The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious
In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.
Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it.
"Immigrant" has become a dirty word. It is not a bad word. It's not a curse or a swear word. It's not a dirty word and it's nothing to be ashamed about. I am proud to be a second generation immigrant. I am proud of my heritage. We are all immigrants and we need to start owning the concept.
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!