Once Quotes

The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there.

There are thin girls with infertility issues, normal sized girls with infertility issues and overweight girls with infertility issues. Unless your doctor tells you your weight is affecting you in some way... once the doctor rules it out, that's really not it.

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.