Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
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.
If you have something about yourself that's different, you're lucky. It's not a curse.
It’s a curse, really,” Lady Danbury said. “I’m the only person I know my age who has perfect hearing. ” “Most would call that a blessing. ” She snorted. “Not with that musicale looming over the horizon.
We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.
Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!
I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.
One of the worst things you could do in that world is curse at someone.
Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.
Kick and claw all you like. Scream. Hit me. Curse the f*ck out of me. You won't sleep anywhere but with me tonight.
If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.
I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve.
I always act better when I'm able to curse.
How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.
Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.
Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?