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

• Misery
• Decided
• Rightly

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• I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

  

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• I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

  

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  • Me
  • Model
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• I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Fashion
  • Everything
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• So I decided on science when I was in college.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Science
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  • Decided

• 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
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• I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.

  

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• The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • Law
  • Causes
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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
  • Great
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• I sat next to a young woman on a plane once who bombarded me for five hours with how she had decided to be born again and so should I. I told her I was glad for her, but I hadn't used up being born the first time.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• My life has run from misery to happiness.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Life
  • Running
  • Misery

• 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
  • Life
  • Misery
  • Would Be

• 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
  • Power
  • Wish
  • Habit

• 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
  • Poverty
  • Sin
  • Shame

• 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.
  • Relationship
  • Matter
  • Misery

• 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
  • Up
  • Business
  • Names

• I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

  

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  • Life
  • Decided
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• 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
  • People
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  • Misery

• Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

  

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• A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

  

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  • Decided

• I've decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn't getting enough tar.

  

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  • Enough
  • Said
  • Smoking

• You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Think
  • Decided
  • Motion

• In today's world, where we live, there is no longer someone else’s war. None of you can feel safe when there is a war in Ukraine, when there is a war in Europe.

  

  Volodymyr Zelensky
  • War
  • Feel
  • Safe

• What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.

  

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  • Love
  • Things
  • Others

• 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
  • Misery
  • Decided
  • Rightly