Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
David Herbert Lawrence

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
Doug Coupland

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
Frederic William Farrar

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
Abu Bakar Bashir

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
James Harvey Robinson

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
Paul Harris

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Bertolt Brecht

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Mark Hopkins

Remember, it is better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness.
Frank Gorshin

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
William E. Gladstone

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
Rod Serling

Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
Wangari Maathai

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Terry Pratchett

Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it.
Kato Kaelin

That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.
Alex Cox

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.
James Hillman

The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.
Tim LaHaye

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.
Plato