John Scott (John Howard Scott) Quotes
I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.John Scott
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I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
Barry Sheene -
I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
Famke Janssen -
I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.
Paloma Picasso -
So I decided on science when I was in college.
Sally Ride -
I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
Barbara Steele -
The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.
Harlan Stone
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Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
My life has run from misery to happiness.
Loretta Lynn -
If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
Kanye West -
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
Saint Augustine -
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
Oscar Wilde -
No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'
Count Basie -
I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.
Don Johnson -
Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.
Francois Mitterrand -
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
Vincent Van Gogh -
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Socrates -
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
Lao Tzu
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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
Russell Baker -
Now DVD can represent more income than the box office - and typically does.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees -
If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.
Confucius -
I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.
Charlize Theron -
I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.
John Scott