I had been able to break the curse myself. I’d had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.

They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a...

Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.

No matter how beautiful, it was a curse

Commitment is a curse if it interferes with righteousness.

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods — her fertile fields — her beautiful rivers — her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my...

She probably fell asleep and was washed away by the tortoise waves!”-Arista

Some men are so willing to know their future,but unwilling to face the fear of their own death.

Dartmouth wanted to help and New Mexico has also supported the situation and that is where Tommy (Clark) did his residency. Stanford is where Jamie (Clark) went to school and they have been very supportive...

Oh, what an unbearable yoke is free will! What a vicious curse of the gods, granting self-determination to creatures incapable of guiding themselves! What good parent would free a child among tigers?

Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with.

Ever thought of updating yourself instead of updating your mobile

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.

Look!” Mr. Poe said, who was still too far to help but close enough to see. “Genghis has an eye tattoo, like Count Olaf! In fact, I think he IS Count Olaf!””Of course he is!”...

Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?”Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. “They are weak to temptation....

when we will unmake this world in which we are battered between long burden and brief delight, and will live in pleasure for all our days.” The belief in the possibility of long-lasting, high-flown pleasures...

When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.

Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they’re all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with its blackened branches. We are so small, the two of us....

What do you insolent merfolks want with me now? I swear I haven’t eaten any of your children.”-Ursula

Any fool would not be braveWho takes no heed of this verseNo heroic deed or action saveAny man from Finndragon’s curse

But you know, a wizard with black hair and a thick mustache put a curse on Moscow, and Petrograd, too, so that no one would be able to tell the truth without lying. If a...

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.

Though some may see their shortcomings as the greatest evil from the pit of hell, while some throw invectives at God for bringing them into a cruel, problematic world. These shortcomings are transient, the greatest...

Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done...

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul;...

…to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.