#curse

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

— Virgil

#compel #dost #gold #hearts #human

The Olympics must be my curse or something. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#must #olympics #something

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#poor #prayed #rain #sailors #shepherds

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#blessing #curse #dawn #dusk #foe

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#classes #curse #drinking

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#ann #better #business #confirmed #growing

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#curse #i #just #sit #typewriter

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

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#attaches #curse #development #her #inaction