Once Quotes

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

I'm thrilled to get hired every once in a while.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.

Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. I don't get bored.

I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.