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Once Quotes by David Nicholls
- I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
- I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking…
- And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder, making a noise…
- And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in…
- ...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
- Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice…
- …she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.
- Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on…
- She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and…
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