Once Quotes

Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'

The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.

Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.

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

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.