It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there's a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is.

Well, social media is a curse as much as it is an advantage.

Shrillness is not the inevitable curse of the fairer sex.

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

Perhaps it's a curse, but when you are a Lutheran, you have a sense of responsibility.

I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're born with.

Cain slew Abel. On that much the Torah and the Bible and the Qur'an agree, although in the Qur'an these first sons of Adam and Eve are Qabeel and Habeel. Cain, which is to say Qabeel, wandered eastwards from Eden to the Land of Nod with a mark of some kind on him, a curse.

The interesting thing about a lot of serialized television is that it's a blessing and curse.

I'm a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse.

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

I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes - ever.

It's not really a curse or anything that you're blind; it's really a blessing.

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.