Once Quotes

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.

I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.