Top 444 Once Quotes

In this post, you will find great Once Quotes from famous people, such as Michelle Obama, Wendell Mayes, Daniel Kahneman, Ravi Shastri, Luvvie Ajayi. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
Wendell Mayes
Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don’t know the odds. It’s a big difference.
Fearless means trusting your instincts and clarity of thought. Once you have made up your mind, don’t be scared of what if.
Humor is this great equalizer. It gets people’s defenses down, and once they’re down, you can discuss some really difficult topics.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
The influence of ‘Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.
You see opportunity… Opportunity is like a window: every once in a while, it opens, if you’re ready for that opportunity. So be prepared, work hard, and follow your dreams.
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set a rolling it must increase.
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
I used to get very, very frustrated by people being told what to do by nanny in Brussels. And I remember once I rang the official who was actually responsible for banning the prawn-cocktail-flavoured crisp, which I think contained a dye called Arithrazine or something like that.
Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it’s hard to go back.
Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.
Once I graduated from university, I wanted to climb and be outdoors as much as possible. I worked as a part-time carpenter and kept up a relationship with The North Face. One thing led to another, and I’m lucky to be where I am now. It was a circuitous path with lots of adventure throughout.
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Once you put everything in the right perspective, even bad times can be an opportunity to refresh your appetite, your desire.
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
Arthur Koestler
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
Your spoken voice is a part of it – not a big part of it, but it’s something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what’s otherwise difficult music.
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
That money talks, I’ll not deny, I heard it once: It said, ‘Goodbye‘.
Richard Armour
In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.
You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.
Joe E. Lewis
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon… The book has been thoroughly tested, and it’s very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
Teenagers did not have, before rock ‘n’ roll and rhythm-and-blues – they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20’s and considered adults.
Sam Phillips
No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
Adelaide Anne Procter
I’ve always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it’s been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you’ve given something planetary status it’s kind of mean to take it away.
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
Charles Mackay
Acting is a passion, but I have been taking time off to direct once in a while because it helps me reinvent myself.
Prakash Raj
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
That first victory, before you get to it, it always seems so far ahead. You’re not sure whether you can make it or not. Once you do, obviously it’s a relief, but it also helps you to then deal better once you are in the lead of a race.
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.
Erwin Schrodinger
Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.
Erik Erikson
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
Once your mind and body is healthy, it creates a freedom that helps you enjoy life.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank
Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
My brother took me to my first football match when I was five, and I quickly acquired a passion for it: once you’ve walked into a football ground, you know there’s nothing comparable to it.
I did a ‘Golden Girls’ once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once they’ve learned the rules.
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
Bernard Manning
I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.
There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can’t do it in five minutes. You can’t listen to ‘The Rite of Spring‘ once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.
Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.
The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
We die only once, and for such a long time.
I bought a 1200-year-old Viking bracelet once.
I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
Georges Bataille
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
All of imagination – everything that we think, we feel, we sense – comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.
Jay S. Walker
Let me clear it once and for all: I was never offered ‘Befikre.’ But had I been offered, I wouldn’t have done it.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is

You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.
Joe E. Lewis
A lion’s work hours are only when he’s hungry; once he’s satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.’
Try a thing you haven‘t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
Virgil Thomson
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.
Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.
Meat, to me, it’s slightly boring. Hold on, I love meat too, but only once in a while. You get a piece of meat, and you put it in your mouth, you chew, the first five seconds, all the juices flow around your mouth, they’re gone, and then you are 20 more seconds chewing something that is tasteless at this point.
I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black, and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
I’m proud of what I’ve achieved in cricket, as once I didn’t think I was good enough.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she’d like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem.
It is in Toyota‘s DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated.
Akio Toyoda
A philosopher once said, ‘Half of good philosophy is good grammar.’
A. P. Martinich
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we’d string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool – they saw it as a form of self-expression.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
It is a dire need for our young scientists to be proficient in running and using their lab equipment rather than depending on their assistants or workers. Once they learn how to use every lab equipment, their scientific career is likely to progress smoothly.
A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
Someone once told me… ‘Anh believe in your dreams!’ I always have and always will, and I think that if you follow your dreams in life, you really can live an amazing life.
A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you’re in and take advantage of it.
Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it’s not until the last two or three performances when I even understand certain things. In the old days star actors would travel the world doing the same parts over and over again.
All animals communicate. What’s special about gossip is that it’s not about the here and now. You don’t gossip about lions. You don’t gossip about clouds. You only gossip about other people. And once you do, you can keep track of many more people – this is the basis for forming larger communities.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn’t ask to be a role model, because I’m not perfect.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the ou

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.
I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it’s not a good place for that.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.
Isadora Duncan
NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
Dan Gable
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.
Alvar Aalto
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
Frank Sobotka in ‘The Wire‘ on HBO was one of the greatest characters I’ve ever played. They cut his throat at the end of that season. There’s something about creative coupling that seems to go with great characters, and the fact that you can never play them again once you’re done.
Chris Bauer
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.
Emanuel Steward
I hope that basketball gains momentum and kids understand that you can actually make a living from it. Not just the N.B.A. You can get a scholarship, a free degree – like, no student loan you have to pay off. That’s huge in life. Once they realize that in New Zealand, I hope they get inspired.
I pretended to be dead in front of a pig once, because I heard that they snuffle you, they try and wake you up, to check if you really are dead. And if you are dead, they eat you, but they like having a little prod first.
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
George Leigh Mallory
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
It’s like, once you’ve seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you’ve seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can’t fully get really lost in them.
I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It’s so difficult. I told him, I don’t know but whatever you do don’t stop. Just keep on going.
Benny Goodman
Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.
You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn’t. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.
We all need to make time for a burger once in a while.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
If I said it once, I’ll say it again: ‘We have the power to change everything.’
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature.
Life's a balancing act. You have multiple roles and goa

Life’s a balancing act. You have multiple roles and goals, and you can do it all – just not all at once.
Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
Once you become predictable, no one’s interested anymore.
Chet Atkins
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.
Alberto Giacometti
Once people put that title on me as one of the better shooters, I just wanted to be the best shooter. That’s what I feel like I was out to prove.
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future.
You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
Great things happen only once.
Once you got a solar panel on a roof, energy is free. Once we convert our entire electricity grid to green and renewable energy, cost of living goes down.
Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds – all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It has been Brancusi’s special mission to get rid of this overgrowth and to make us once more shape-conscious.
People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
Ian K. Smith
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it’s not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes.
John Ford
Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
Mentally, I have to get my body and mind in the right place before I start the routine, but once into the zone, it’s like I turn on a switch. I envision myself doing the same thing for the Olympic Games.
Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
When you repeat yourself so many times, even if you’re speaking the truth, the repetition starts to feel false. Sometimes, you just feel like the words you’re speaking, even if they once had meaning, have lost it. And that makes you feel kind of silly.
A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
Once you create a loyal customer base, it’s tough for a competitor to take that away.
Joe Mansueto
A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person.
God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army.
Sometimes I wish I could clone myself, you know, be in two places at once.
Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.
Harvey Milk
I’d see my daddy about once a month, and I missed him. I would have loved to have had more of him. He was tall, attractive and very quiet, very gentle. He had a wife who I don’t think ever really liked me much.
I like to say, ‘Once a dancer, always a dancer.’ In everything – the way you walk, the way you move, the way you talk, the way you sit – everything is just, you’ve been trained a certain way your whole life, so it’s a bit muscle memory.
It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.
I’m an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once yo

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!
Once you’re a mom, always a mom. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget.
My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings
I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn’t have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert Hall
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Once I make up my mind, I’m full of indecision.
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
I can’t die but once.
Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.
Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don’t change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Teddy Roosevelt… once said, ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick.’ Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you’re done for.
Al Alvarez
That is the way it is in football: once a scorer, always a scorer.
Marcus Berg
Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you’ve run delirium’s course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slightlest we become unwitting victims of darkness.
William O. Douglas
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
A doctor once told me that with crying you aren’t sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don’t cry: you scream, you try to run. When it’s over and you’re OK, that’s when you cry.
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
My father said, ’10 minus one is zero.’ It means that even if you do good things 10 times, it is no use when you do some bad thing once. But it doesn’t mean that I think I have positive image, so I always need to be careful about what I’m doing. I don’t want to frame myself.
Gucci! Paul Smith! I love it! You discover it’s not just names; that stuff looks pretty good once it’s on you.
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
Once you figure out what your passion is, surround yourself with like-minded people who can help you grow.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how tr

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
What I love about America is not necessarily the American Dream but the fact that there’s so much spirit of fighting to continue to dream once the dreams are broken.
Don’t let people make you afraid of taking chances in life. And if you fail, it’s no big deal. Get back up and fight through it and be successful again. If you did it once, you can do it again.
I used to be a conscious person in terms of dressing, and I wasn’t comfortable with my body, so I wouldn’t dress in a certain way. Now I am comfortable, and nothing bothers me. Once you are comfortable, everything starts looking good.
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Once every lunar eclipse, you should be able to see me smile!
I’m scammed almost every day. Or, if not scammed, at the very least someone tries to scam me. Usually more than once a day.
I told somebody once, ‘You don’t want the Herschel that plays football… babysitting your child. When I am competing, I am a totally different person.’
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Once I step over that white line I become The Bowler.
Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it’s footwork. I constantly work on it, and it’s a never-ending process.
As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.
Brian Moore
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Berenice Abbott
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.
Cliff Burton
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
Omar Khayyam
I’m not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.
You feel very romantic when you’re in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.
I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don’t need it. It all comes out onstage.
I’ve had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you’ve really Joeled it up – there’s some good periods of Joel; it’s not all hot cheese. But I can’t judge anyone else for their cheese. I’ve deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.
Once they ban rifles, they’re gone forever.
What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can’t get a job, you can’t get a loan, you can’t get a Pell grant, you can’t get public housing.
In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I’m in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on ‘Mary Poppins,’ lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
Once you get to a certain age, if you have resentment towards people, it only affects you.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost fo

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.
Helen Frankenthaler
You don’t have to live up to anyone else’s standards, you don’t have to look like anyone else, you don’t have to compare yourself to anyone else. You being you is enough, and you putting your positivity and good vibes out into the world, once you get to that point absolutely everything will fall into place.
There’s a lot of stress… but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
Anthony Burgess
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it – even on your deathbed.
Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you’re pampered, you get lazy.
Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge as new information comes in. Time spent evaluating claims is not just time well spent. It should be considered part of an implicit bargain we’ve all made.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.
Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I’d make one a week and finally I’d pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I’m trying to keep it down to one a season.
Lou Gehrig
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Someone once asked, ‘What’s your best pickup line?’ I said, ‘My best pickup line is, ‘Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.’
Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.
Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it’s very hard to turn it, even slightly.
Just once, I’d like a commercial.
Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we’re twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It’s bone dry today. Something bad happened there as well.
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘always do what you are afraid to do.’
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.
Johnny Mercer
Once people enjoy the taste of freedom, there is no turning back.
The Village Voice gave me an outlet. They encouraged writers to publish idiosyncratic, intellectually ambitious journalism in voices that ranged from demonic to highfalutin. And they paid me well once the magazine was unionized. Getting paid is motivational.
I’ve had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, ‘God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.’
Cesare Lombroso
The word ‘tolerance‘ once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.
Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House.
I'm a standup comedian who can't drive. I have never le

I’m a standup comedian who can’t drive. I have never learned. I don’t trust my hand-eye coordination. You’re looking at someone who once dropped a cricket ball on to his own head during a routine catching practice; I don’t think it’s a great idea to have me in control of a high-speed metal death robot.
Once you’re comfortable with the way that you’re dressing, you express yourself a lot more, and you’re just able to have a lot more fun.
Everyone’s more vulnerable than they seem, and I think men are more vulnerable. Once you get close to a man, the whole thing’s a facade anyway. I think manhood is fragile.
A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don’t know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that’s all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.
Stan Laurel
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Once a Raider, always a Raider.
Al Davis
I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
I don’t trust anyone that hasn’t been to jail at least once in their life. You should have been, or something’s the matter with you.
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
Once you accept the existence of God – however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him – then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
Morris West
The suburb in the 1950s was a bedroom community. The father worked in the city, and the mother stayed home. Now people live and work in the suburbs, and businesses have grown up or moved from cities to certain pockets of what was once the suburbs and created these places that are like cities.
Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.
I watch a lot of movies. I’ve watched movies since I was a kid. My dad brought me to the theater once a week. Always – it was a must. So I think that influenced me a lot to be an actor.
Joe Taslim
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll
There is an energy that you carry when you’re nurturing another life where you’re protecting first – and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter‘s gun, you can be a little more daring.
The dearest days in one’s life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
Abraham Cahan
Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.
I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, ‘Wow, man.’ And I’ve been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.
I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can’t go back. You cannot go back.
I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It’s more than once that I cried.
When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
We can’t have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge – out of fairness to goats.
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
Giorgio de Chirico
I don’t think I’ve ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, ‘Bing!’ I only recall that happening to me twice – once was with ‘Terrapin’ and the other was ‘Wharf Rat.’ I mean, that’s twice in a lifetime of writing!
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I’m always travelling, so it’s perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this g

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn’t be acting like Don Juan.
I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
Once I see my mother’s smiling face, I forget all the shooting pressures and tensions. I am the happiest person at that moment.
Once I retire, I would definitely love to be a DJ. That would be fun.
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Lenny Bruce
Life is too short to hold regrets. Once it’s done, you cannot regret it.
I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.
As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater.
Yes, it’s true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother’s home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn’t do it.
Roberto Duran
Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It’s like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they’ll crystallize into a pattern.
Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I’m feeling verbally communal with other people. It’s out there and I feel so much better about it.
Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.
I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Edward R. Murrow
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce Lee
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
P. G. Wodehouse
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Milton Berle
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
Writing for ‘Rooster‘ was a strange experience. It’s funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you’ve hit a spirit or captured something.
Jez Butterworth
Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That’s much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it’s almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day.
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
Billie Holiday
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures -

Zoos are becoming facsimiles – or perhaps caricatures – of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
I think I’ve been lucky to work with so many lovely people. But there’s Joshua Bell, who’s the world’s greatest violinist. We worked together live and once, for his record, but I really would want to work with him on one of my records.
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Consistency is most important in international level and once you have it, you become a different player.
You always have to continue working, because everybody is. Once you stop, the others will overtake you.
My ultimate dream is just to become world champion, and not only once. So that’s my dream, and it doesn’t matter with which team it is.
I love that feeling you get once you leave a cinema having just watched a movie during the day. Your eyes slowly adjust to the natural light, and your mind, being a little slower, takes its time to separate the images of film from the reality you are suddenly facing.
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
Richard Rorty
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.
Once you get into the world of dystopia, it’s hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.
Once I found out that people were really making careers for themselves off the Internet, independently, I was really inspired.
Maori get pigeonholed into the idea they’re spiritual and telling stories like ‘Whale Rider‘ and ‘Once Were Warriors,’ quite serious stuff, but we’re pretty funny people, and we never really have had an opportunity to show that side of ourselves, the clumsy, nerdy side of ourselves, which is something I am.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.
George Martin
You basically only discover a new thing once.
Urs Fischer
It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
George Horace Lorimer
I lost some time once. It’s always in the last place you look for it.
I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I’d never tip my hand to the other side.
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
You only live once. Life is a show.
I’m funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.
I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.
Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
Fanny Crosby
My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My dad was a no-nonsense guy. As a kid, I hated his rules, but as a man, I understand what he was teaching. He taught me you have to work hard for everything you get.
Nick Ferguson
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
Gustave Courbet
The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus’ heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.
You know, once you’ve stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.
David H. Koch
I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It’s been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I’ve enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work.
I would say, if you come out, they can’t take away how you play football. That was the thing for me: once I did come out, it’s not going to affect my diving. I can still perform, no matter what anybody else thinks of me. I’m judged for what I do in the diving pool.
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.
John Archibald Wheeler
Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.
George Miller
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.
A successful shrimp boil requires layering ingredients into the pot so that everything is done cooking at once. A carefully timed choreography dictates the order in which ingredients are added to ensure no one has to eat raw potatoes or chewy shrimp.
I’ve always been athletic – I ran track in high school – and it kept my blood pressure in check over the years. Once I was diagnosed with hypertension, I stepped up my workouts.
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won’t help you.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
Abbie Hoffman
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
John Archibald Wheeler
Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.
John Archibald Wheeler
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
Ian Fleming
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Daniel Burnham
Havana is one of the great cities of the world, sublimely tawdry yet stubbornly graceful, like tarnished chrome – a city, as a young Winston Churchill once wrote, where ‘anything might happen.’
Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviou

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‘Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.’
I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
Stanislaw Lem
Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn’t want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
A ballad once in a while doesn’t go amiss.
It’s funny how most people love the dead, once you’re dead, you’re made for life.
When you’re a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to – it’s like, I can’t be all of those things at once. I’m a human being.
When I was in my late teens, a couple of friends passed away suddenly. This was quite distressing, but after a while, as tends to happen when one is once or twice removed from grief, I stopped thinking about them all the time.
Once the world sees you as that one thing, and the better you are at that thing, the more you can only be that thing.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.
Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.
George Allen, Sr.
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
I don’t want to start producing dressing gowns and cuff links with the Purdey name stamped on them. Making Purdey the leading gunmaker is our priority. Once we have succeeded in doing that, then we might look at some accessories, but it is a long haul.
Johann Rupert
I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you’ll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It’s so much more rewarding.
Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.
Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
Once you believe things are permanent, you’re trapped in a world without doors.
As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.
It can be easy to get swept up into catastrophizing the situation once your thoughts become negative. When you begin predicting doom and gloom, remind yourself that there are many other potential outcomes.
You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
In life, if you don’t know the truth, then you can’t be free, because then you’ll believe that the lies are the truth. But once we realize that when we read the Word of God, and you know the truth of who you are, then I’m not a man without arms and legs. I am a child of God.
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
I have an ocean of opportunities awaiting me and once I am back from Miss World, I want to explore whatever life has to offer.
Once you start a war, you have to win.

Once you start a war, you have to win.
G. Gordon Liddy
I’ve got nothing against L.A. I think it is a really beautiful place. To be able to surf and get out in the Pacific Ocean every once in a while. The hiking, all of that is amazing. I love it there.
I once took a workshop with Jim Shepard, and he has this term, ‘rate-of-revelation,’ that has come to mean a lot to me: ‘the pace at which we’re learning crucial emotional information about the stories’ central figures.’ An ever-increasing rate-of-revelation is good; a stagnant r-of-r is not.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.
I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
John Randolph
I’m not possessive, I’m caring… Once you realize a person doesn’t want that much care, you automatically back off.
You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can’t bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!
I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.
I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.
Once I set my mind towards something, it’s going to happen. By hook or by crook.
God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
Ted Williams
Opportunity sometimes comes once in a lifetime.
Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.
Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.
The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
Building takes passion and energy. Maintenance is awful. It’s nothing but fatigue. Once you reach the top, maintaining that beast is awful.
You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can’t learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don’t seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
I have a good cry once in a while; it’s such a great release. Or it could be a cry of joy – watching your child being born or your child walking across a graduation stage.
Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it’s the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
Though I am a shy person at heart, I explode as a volcano once I open up with people around me, and then I am all fun.
Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example

Horror isn’t only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it’s not horror.
Ellen Datlow
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
A wise man once said, ‘Instead of crying, I keep on trying.’ And that wise man is me, because I just made that up. I think.
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you’re doing.
Once you create a believable fictional universe, you suck the audiences into that world and they tag along for the ride.
Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say ‘no,’ I mean ‘no.’ I just have to learn how to say ‘no’ more.
Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin – we’re talking about hundreds of millions, billions of dollars moving in – it’s going to have a pretty dramatic effect on the price.
Barry Silbert