With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me. '
All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me. It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.
Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!
Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?" He looked at her. "I believe in you.
Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example. . . ] Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.
Writer's block. . when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.
Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever.
