Once Quotes

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.

You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.

Once I got started acting I loved it.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.

I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.