Once Quotes - page 9

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once. (Marcel Pagnol)

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

George Santayana

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

John Templeton

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

Woody Allen

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Victor Borge

Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.

Karen Armstrong

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

Frances Burney

When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.

Ann Coulter

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

Chuck Palahniuk

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Katherine Mansfield

I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more. (Jack White)

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Johan Huizinga

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smellof smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

Don DeLillo

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in.

Alan Alda

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

C. Wright Mills

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'T is e'en as if an angel shook his wings. (William Cowper)

What peaceful hours I once enjoyed How sweet their memory still But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

William Cowper

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

Daniel Boone

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

Tom Holt

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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