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Once Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
- I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first…
- For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on…
- We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is…
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