Top 43 Blessed And Cursed Quotes
#2. That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
Timothy Garton Ash
#3. I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.
Anthony Hopkins
#4. But if the gods only cursed us, then we would hate them. And if they only blessed us, then - well, then we'd care nothing for their laws because we'd respect nothing but our own pleasure.
Kate Elliott
#5. In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you're traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There's just one can set you free.
Ben Harper
#6. Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.
Joseph Wambaugh
#7. We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.
Stephen Cave
#9. The second is observation. Observation is a skill that can be developed, but I was born blessed (or cursed) with the ability to pick up on details and items the average man overlooks.
Frank W. Abagnale
#10. All our hopes of turning the cursed ground into the blessed ground, and thus regaining it, are doomed by the fact that it is God himself who cursed the ground, and it is He alone who is able to take back what he said and bless the earth again.
Deitrich Bonhoeffer
#11. My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.
Anthony Robbins
#12. There are some things I guess we bury so we can get on with living. I don't think it's wrong, necessarily, just what we do to survive. It's the remembering part that's hard. Some people remember and some never have to. The blessed and the cursed.
Nicole A. Seitz
#13. Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.
Jon Stewart
#14. Human beings are cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality. They are, however, blessed with the ability to ignore it.
Adam B. Ford
#15. Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
Nadine Gordimer
#16. It's a pity that Rob has our Lynburn knives," Lillian said. "But any knife can be cursed or blessed."
"Right, but can any knife be disinfected?" asked Jon. "Specifically, was this one?
Sarah Rees Brennan
#17. I was the perfect automaton: blessed with ability but cursed with ignorance.
Ransom Riggs
#18. I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard.
Salvatore Ferragamo
#19. I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart is on my sleeve. It's not comfortable but ... I am an artist so it's useful and my friends are used to me getting teary at any moment.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#20. If you desire it, you must punish yourself for the sake of learning, seek every advantage in keeping up with the other clerks and in excelling them. You must study with the fervor of the blessed or the cursed.
Noah Gordon
#21. I have marked in traveling how lonely houses change their expression as you come near, pass, and leave them. Some frown, others smile. The Bible buildings had life of their own and human diseases; the priests cursed or blessed them as men.
Emma Frances Dawson
#22. Honestly, I've been very blessed. Yes, I am cursed with this gift.
Wilmer Valderrama
#23. Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.
Stella Benson
#24. Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed
Stephen King
#25. What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.
Eve Arnold
#26. As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.
Kyp Malone
#27. I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.
Justin Townes Earle
#28. I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.
Michael Palin
#29. CODE:
Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Tanakh (JPS, Genesis 3:17)
DECODED:
Blessed is He that discerneth secrets.
Talmud (Berakoth 58a)
H.W. Charles
#30. I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.
Jake T. Austin
#31. Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can."
--from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm
Jon Katz
#32. Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.
Willard Gaylin
#33. This can be both a blessing and a curse. You are blessed with a wonderfully unique filter but cursed with a systematic inability to understand anybody else's.
Marcus Buckingham
#34. Empathy was a sword with two edges. I was blessed with the ability to care deeply for people, and cursed with the knowledge that they would nearly always choose the worst for themselves.
Seth King
#35. Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
Ezra Taft Benson
#36. I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
Margery Allingham
#37. Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
Gary Ryan Blair
#38. Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.
Bruce Cockburn
#39. Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa
Peter Mutanda
#40. Each of us is blessed with the ability to control our own decisions," she continued, "but cursed with the inability to control the decisions of others.
M.A. Larson
#41. Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!
Anton Szandor LaVey
#42. How had I deserved to be so blessed by such confessions? - how had I deserved to be so cursed with the removal of my beloved in the hour of her making them, But upon this subject I cannot bear to dilate.
Edgar Allan Poe
#43. Cursed?" I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears.
"It isn't cursed." John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, "if you're wearing it. It's blessed.
Meg Cabot
