Once Quotes

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

What is once well done is done forever.

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.

I ran for Congress, just once.

We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.

When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.

I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.