#curse

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts! ↗

— Virgil

#compel #dost #gold #hearts #human

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#classes #curse #drinking

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#black #change #condition #curse #face

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#civilization #course #curse #dodge #family

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently. ↗

— Justin Halpern

#cool #curse #curses #eloquently #father

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

— Toba Beta

#gift #knowing-the-future #death

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#becomes #believe #care #come #curses

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. ↗

— George Gissing

#curses #generous #leaves #poverty #right

I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#anything #apologized #colon #curse #ebert

There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#fixer #guy #had #help #i