Once Quotes

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.

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.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.