#curse

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#because #brings #curse #like #people

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#curiosity #cursed #desire #female #female mind

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth. ↗

— Bono

#cursed #digging #drilling #get #happy

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#makes #poverty #wise #you

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#curse #knowledge #much #off #shut

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#curse #pretty-girls #rosalind-connage #steel #trial

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#black #black magic #casual #curses #effective

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#curse #dollar #i #leave #son

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#curses #i #i think #only #parties

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#any #become #cursed #evil #i