Once Quotes - page 7

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all. (Niccolò Machiavelli)
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again. View quote
José Rizal
This is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Youth comes but once in a lifetime. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. View quote
Georges Braque
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness. View quote
Jack Kerouac
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. View quote
Bruce Lee
How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. View quote
Alexander Pope
For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and evn the past enjoy. View quote
Alexander Pope
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power but they will never look to anything but power for their relief. (Edmund Burke)
Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once. View quote
Gore Vidal
Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air. View quote
Robert Frost
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.... Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went. View quote
Robert Frost
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding. View quote
Jason Statham
The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice. View quote
Robert Benchley
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own. View quote
Margaret Mead
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. View quote
Garrison Keillor
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet. (Zinedine Zidane)
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing. View quote
Emil Cioran
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. View quote
Emil Cioran
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here. View quote
Steven Wright