Once Quotes

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

I work out six days a week. I do pilates, Bikram yoga and spinning. Every once in awhile, I'll throw weights in. I like to get some kind of cardio in every day, even if it's just hiking.

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

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.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.

I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that!

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.

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.