Once Quotes

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows.

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction.

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?

When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

I have lots of older siblings, and as they started to leave the house, I went from cooking once a week to twice, three times, and so on. After a while, it was just like making the bed.

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.