Curses

Famous quotes containing the word curses:

“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.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“For love so hates mortality
Which is the providence of life
She will not let it blessèd be
But curses it with mortal strife....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious rule over the animal; or the animal propensities of our nature predominate over the intellectual and moral. The spider elaborates poison from the same flower, in which the bee finds materials out of which she manufactures honey.”
—Harriot K. Hunt (1805–1875)