Once Quotes

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid.

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.

I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.

The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.

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.