#curse

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#curse #gift #going #mind #racing

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

— George Gissing

#curses #generous #leaves #poverty #right

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#curse #given #god #great #magnificent

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 demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú - generally a curse or doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed fukú on the world, and we've all been in the shit ever since. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#antilles #curse #demon #enslaved #fukú

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents. ↗

— Daisy Fuentes

#did #discipline #fits #front #go

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

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible. ↗

— Walter Lang

#bible #christ #come #curse #essentially

Intolerance has been the curse of our country. ↗

— James Larkin

#country #curse #intolerance #our

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create. ↗

— Juliette Lewis

#beautiful #being #being beautiful #create #curse