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When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.


Johnny Vegas


#am #attractive #bit #care #children

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.


George Eliot


#comes #despair #first #great #healed

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.


Queen Elizabeth II


#benefit #consequence #deep #differently #done

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.


Alfred North Whitehead


#context #deal #destroyed #distorted #either

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.


Nadine Gordimer


#brand #censorship #experienced #forever #imagination

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.


Michael Haneke


#child #contrary #difficult #director #disturbing

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.


Anthony Holden


#being #book #close #columns #couple

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.


Anthony Holden


#built #competition #design #did #financially

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.


Giovanni Agnelli


#european #european countries #general #had #heavily

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.


Isaac Mayer Wise


#days #fanatical #flourished #middle #middle ages






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