Once Quotes - page 8

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. (Steve Jobs)
Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets. View quote
Marvin Minsky
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. View quote
Willie Nelson
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. View quote
Joseph Addison
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. View quote
Joseph Addison
There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again. View quote
George W. Bush
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. View quote
Lucille Ball
Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds. View quote
Roger Ebert
An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life. View quote
Helen Hayes
Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again. (Julia Child)
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes. View quote
Cole Porter
Once we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more. View quote
Aphra Behn
'With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart' once more Did Shakespeare If so, the less Shakespeare he. View quote
Robert Browning
This could but have happened once, And we missed it, lost it forever. View quote
Robert Browning
The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed but the soul,no. View quote
Robert Browning
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink. (Ernest Hemingway)
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water. View quote
Amy Tan
My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't. View quote
Beverly Sills
It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them. View quote
Anne Tyler
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith