"When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much."

“Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.”

“There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.”

“I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.”

“Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.”

“I am like Dante, I walk through hell, but I am not burning.”

“Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.”

Source : H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_”, p.578, e-artnow

“I refuse absolutely to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. ... I obdurately insist on believing that some men are my equals.”

Source : Brigid Brophy (1968). “The Burglar: Play”