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Once Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
- Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us…
- I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
- E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights,…
- It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all…
- Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops…
- A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God…
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins