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Once Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
- Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is an on-again-off-again rather than once-and-for-all.…
- All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure…
- Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours…
- Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after,…
- When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process.…
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