Once Quotes
15894 quotes by 8431 authors
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history…
— Hannah Arendt
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime…
— Hannah Arendt
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and…
— Hank Aaron
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
— Aristotle
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed…
— Paul Auster
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
— Richard Bach
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That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
— Richard Armour
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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
— Isaac Asimov
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without…
— Mary Astell
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Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
— Chet Atkins
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Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost…
— Chinua Achebe
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on…
— Chinua Achebe
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
— Margaret Atwood
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The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
— Margaret Atwood
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I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for…
— Margaret Atwood
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but…
— Saint Augustine
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