Once Quotes - page 4

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. (Ernest Hemingway)
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. View quote
George Santayana
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. View quote
Emo Philips
At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. View quote
Thomas Tusser
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. View quote
James Baldwin
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. View quote
George Herbert
Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process. View quote
Geddy Lee
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it. (John Gay)
Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated. View quote
Robert Sheckley
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. View quote
W. C. Fields
Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. (Yoshida Kenkō)
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. View quote
Charles Lamb
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. View quote
John Muir
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived. View quote
Sylvester Stallone