A Gift And A Curse Quotes

#1. The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

Thomas Sowell

#2. Reading was both a gift and a curse for me. Those books made me able to escape into a world I'd never experienced, but at the same time, they reminded me of all the things I'd been missing.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#3. Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera.

Jon Gordon

#4. He doesn't so much fall in love as dive-bomb it like a kamikaze pilot, fearless and at full throttle. He used to look at this propensity as a gift, then a curse, and now understands it to be just another way in which he is broken.

Jonathan Tropper

#5. The rarity of what you hold is more powerful than you can imagine. It is a gift for humanity and the most lethal curse to the vampires.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#6. Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

Julianna Baggott

#7. Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality

Alan D. Eames

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

Sean Combs

#9. I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.

Alice Hoffman

#10. Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

Jenna Morasca

#11. For a gift that does not find balance and a service that is not returned are worth less than a curse.

Mark Helprin

#12. The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first.

Drake

#13. Betrayer! Long ago we promised
To exchange equally, gift for gift.
Take this curse: What you destroy will destroy you.

Ann Leckie

#14. Love being different, embrace it, share it, live it because being different is not a curse but a gift we all posses that defines who we are and makes the world a better place.

Katie Chapman

#15. Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of all are the gifts that have enough disruptive force to break us out of everything that's breaking us. And God loves us far too much not to give us exactly those kinds of gifts.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

Anne Rice

#17. I do not run from beauty, my own or anyone else's. If it is a gift, I claim it and I use it. And if it is a curse, well...I claim it and use it." Victoria da Vinci

Austin Scott Collins

#18. I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

Talib Kweli

#19. I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.

Dan Fogelberg

#20. The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

Mark Hart

#21. I can be very reactionary. It's a gift and a curse.

Xosha Roquemore

#22. Fairness of face is a gift or curse from God. You cannot take credit for it. Your nature, intelligence, and behavior are the true measure of beauty.

Katy Madison

#23. I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.

Nicki Minaj

#24. She paid using the prettiest credit card, and then left it with the ticket seller as a gift. Along with a minor curse - a bladder infection and diarrhea - just because she was Baba Yaga, and certain things were expected.

Orson Scott Card

#25. Some people possess gifts, and some people are possessed by them. When that happens, the gift becomes a curse

Anton Troia

#26. Thus, as the Buddha said to a lady who offered him a curse,the gift is returned to the giver when it is not accepted

Allen Ginsberg

#27. Hope was such a gift and a curse all rolled into one.

Maya Banks