Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. Votes: 4
William Arthur WardIgnorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareThis is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. Votes: 2
StendhalSome people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse. Votes: 2
Rod SerlingDenounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation. Votes: 2
Victoria WoodhullLosing something might be a blessing; gaining something might be a curse! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanChild prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities. Votes: 0
Itzhak PerlmanThe curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy. Votes: 0
Horace WalpoleSelf-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies. Votes: 0
Annie DillardInscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! Votes: 0
Robert BrowningCrude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. Votes: 0
H. G. WellsPerhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse. Votes: 0
Kristin ArmstrongOne of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men." Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse. Votes: 0
Faye KellermanThe common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue! Votes: 0
William ShakespeareBlessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside. Votes: 0
Glenn DanzigKnow that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. Votes: 0
Yasmin MogahedMusic sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. Votes: 0
Patrick RothfussSociety than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse. Votes: 0
Anna Letitia BarbauldIt's not really a curse or anything that you're blind; it's really a blessing. Votes: 0
The Mighty HannibalNaturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different. Votes: 0
Mary Ann ShafferThe Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen. Votes: 0
Ruth Hurmence GreenIf you have something about yourself that's different, you're lucky. It's not a curse. Votes: 0
Taylor SwiftGratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy. Votes: 0
Konosuke MatsushitaThe curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character. Votes: 0
Lucy LarcomA people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced. Votes: 0
AeschylusThere is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery. Votes: 0
J. R. R. TolkienAh, Fist, it's the curse of history that those who should read them, never do. Votes: 0
Steven EriksonI, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment. Votes: 0
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPersonality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless. Votes: 0
Paul HarrisO marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor. Votes: 0
Aaron HillNature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse. Votes: 0
Juliana HatfieldBeing beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create. Votes: 0
Juliette LewisShe was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. Votes: 0
Adlai E. StevensonThe curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times. Votes: 0
Alethea KontisPerhaps it's a curse, but when you are a Lutheran, you have a sense of responsibility. Votes: 0
Martti AhtisaariEvery man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart. Votes: 0
Theodore Dwight WeldWithout the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse."(History Will Teach Us Nothing) Votes: 0
StingIt isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine. Votes: 0
Hafsat AbiolaThere is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead. Votes: 0
Anthon St. MaartenI think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me. Votes: 0
John Wilkes BoothThis is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil. Votes: 0
Friedrich SchillerThe curse of men can't make me defiled.I defile myself if I curse men by intention. Votes: 0
Toba BetaA curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it. Votes: 0
Richard SibbesOf earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life. Votes: 0
Simonides of CeosWe shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiEvery unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it. Votes: 0
Maurice DruonThe proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle. Votes: 0
Irving GreenbergFrom that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth. Votes: 0
Charles Chilton MooreMan's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors. Votes: 0
Frederic FarrarThe curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it. Votes: 0
Steve FarrarThe curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself Votes: 0
SophoclesToo much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole Votes: 0
Cheryl ColeYour parents put a curse on you - Someday your kids are going to act just like you. Votes: 0
Bill CosbyThat's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them. Votes: 0
Alex CoxImagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley. Votes: 0
Zilpha Keatley SnyderWhy has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing. Votes: 0
Albrecht DurerHas my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinMy mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse. Votes: 0
Sean CombsWhat avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauIt is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly. Votes: 0
MuhammadMy mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse. Votes: 0
Puff DaddyThe mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott Votes: 0
Alfred Lord TennysonEarly every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyBut it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. Charlie Votes: 0
Susan Beth PfefferOne destructive mind-set that must be altered in our society is the thought that work is a curse. Votes: 0
Sunday AdelajaSuch is my curse, Branwyn O'Tyre. Every woman I touch is forced to lavish her affections upon me. Votes: 0
Jo GraffordThe fact that we are aware of ourselves is both our greatest curse and also our greatest blessing. Votes: 0
Leonard JacobsonA great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. Votes: 0
Criss JamiThe most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart. Votes: 0
Peter S. BeagleIt's not like I want to put myself on a high horse, but I just don't curse a lot. Votes: 0
Cassidy Erin GiffordTry to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure. Votes: 0
Julianna BaggottWhen I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know. Votes: 0
Demetri MartinThe past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first. Votes: 0
DrakeIn for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend Votes: 0
Edgar Allan PoeThe eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us. Votes: 0
Henry KnoxCherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse. Votes: 0
ZhuangziI have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known. Votes: 0
Bob DylanThe perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve. Votes: 0
Jean RhysI have actually had to ask my supervisors not to curse in meetings or in general in the workplace. Votes: 0
Monica JohnsonThe kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse or chase broads. I don't see how he can make it. Votes: 0
Richie AshburnWhen I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it. Votes: 0
John H. JohnsonYou know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness. Votes: 0
Mort SahlDr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant. Votes: 0
Khaled HosseiniCall it a curse, or just call me blessed, if you can't handle my worst, you ain't getting my best Votes: 0
Nicki MinajTo have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says. Votes: 0
Slavenka DrakulicWe all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse. Votes: 0
Peter GreenawayA man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauIsn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon. Votes: 0
T. D. JakesThere is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess. Votes: 0
H. G. WellsThere was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave. I never even saw it coming. Votes: 0
Kami GarciaI have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse. Votes: 3 Sienna Miller
Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason. Votes: 5 Bryan Callen