Once Quotes

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.