Once Quotes
15894 quotes by 8431 authors
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Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick…
— Paul Auster
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he…
— Teresa of Avila
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As…
— Teresa of Avila
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I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm…
— Jensen Ackles
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need…
— Jensen Ackles
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
— Irving Babbitt
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about…
— Richard Bach
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I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.
— Sebastian Bach
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My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it…
— Michelle Bachelet
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I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the…
— Michele Bachmann
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The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once many party bigwigs…
— Michele Bachmann
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and…
— Kevin Bacon
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of…
— Alain Badiou
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
— Lord Acton
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There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just…
— Pearl Bailey
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Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
— Russell Baker
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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
— Russell Baker
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I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I…
— Amy Adams
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced…
— James A. Baldwin
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