Once Quotes

Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Once you drink one glass, you want another.

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.

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.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.

I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.

There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.

The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.

The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.