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Once Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?
- We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and…
- We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
- All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem…
- Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and…
- Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory
- If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That…
- Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
- It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the…
- An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.
- There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with…
- A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again,…
- To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern…
- I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
- Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes…
- Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get…
- When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go…
- But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once…
- Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There…
- Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at…
- You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once…
- Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet…
- I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great…
- Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
- Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
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