Once Quotes

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

When I am at a straight club, which is like once a year, if a man even looks in my direction, I verbally attack him.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.

Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.

President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.