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Once Quotes by George Eliot
- Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within…
- I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to…
- If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning,…
- There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
- But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be…
- It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves…
- The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the…
- In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the…
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