Maledictions Quotes & Sayings

Part of me wanted to fling myself on the bed and hold him. Part of me wanted to fling myself on the bed and pummel him. — Susan Nielsen

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before. — Diana Rigg

Post Tenebras Lux. After Darkness, Light. — Paulo Coelho

One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it's just one more bullshit political philosophy. — George Carlin

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room. — Taylor Dayne

That's me
The silent girl
The stutterer
The prisoner
The smart girl
The valedictorian scribbling maledictions to no one — Jasinda Wilder

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest. — Martin Luther King Jr.

You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results. — Emanuel Lasker

Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable. — A.P. Herbert

The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you! — Ashley Montagu

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf

Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone. — John Donne

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. — Thomas Jefferson

Do unto others' is a boomerang. Whatever you decide to throw out there will return to you. If you do not like what comes back - change your output. — Merlyn Gabriel Miller

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace. — William T. Sherman

Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions. — Jack Vance

So fell Lord Perth," murmured Roland. "And the countryside did shake with that thunder," Jake finished. — Stephen King

I'm in love with Tucker Avery. — Cynthia Hand

Proper worship in any age is critically predicated upon adequate and accurate knowledge of the God worshiped. No matter how ceremonially elaborate, emotionally rousing, or sermonically eloquent, worship that is not offered from a proper understanding of who God is falls short. — Andreas J. Kostenberger

For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides ... Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark. — Bettie Page