Once Quotes - page 6

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. (Giacomo Casanova)

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

Daniel De Leon

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Albert Einstein

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Thomas Aquinas

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

Oscar Levant

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

Sachin Tendulkar

I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.

Salman Khan

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. (Honoré de Balzac)

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Mary Astor

Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

Taraji P. Henson

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

Anthony Doerr

Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

K. Eric Drexler

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.

K. Eric Drexler

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.

Jacques Roumain

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

David Dinkins

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

Juliette Binoche

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once. (Demosthenes)

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

William Henry Harrison

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau

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