Once Quotes

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.

I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform 'Oh Jean.'

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.