1.
Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.
Confucius
Don't lament the gloom, ignite a flame.
2.
Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.
T. D. Jakes
It is amusing how something which will turn out to be a boon could become a detriment if acquired too early.
3.
The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
4.
Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.
Mary Parker Follett
7.
Intolerance has been the curse of our country.
James Larkin
8.
It is a curse, being blessed with so much to offer.
Gannicus
9.
Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse
Arnold J. Toynbee
10.
Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.
Margot Fonteyn
11.
We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.
Mahatma Gandhi
12.
When we withhold the tithe we bring upon ourselves a curse.
Phil Pringle
13.
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.
John Adams
14.
When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.
John H. Johnson
16.
The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
Michael Foot
17.
This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
Friedrich Schiller
18.
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
Zhuangzi
19.
I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.
Ray Romano
20.
In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.
Al Gore
22.
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
George Gissing
23.
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
Victoria Woodhull
24.
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
Joseph Campbell
25.
I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.
Chris Rock
26.
If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.
Pat Benatar
27.
True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.
Morgan Wootten
28.
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
Lucy Larcom
29.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
H. G. Wells
31.
The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.
Richard Carlile
32.
Too much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole
Cheryl Cole
33.
I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.
Joshua Harris
34.
The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious
Martin Luther
36.
Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.
Sam Storms
37.
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will Curse you.
Emmet Fox
38.
I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends
Dan Fogelberg
39.
The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.
Josh Billings
42.
Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.
Anne Rice
45.
A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.
Richard Sibbes
46.
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.
Remy de Gourmont
47.
I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.
Martin Scorsese