Fame is a curse. . . it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.
How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]
Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise.
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.
Adjectives are the curse of America.
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.
I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.
There are no such things as curses; only people and their decisions
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.
In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.
I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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!
If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.