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Once Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.
- If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for…
- It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a…
- In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.
- To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or…
- If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's…
- Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and…
- She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a…
- And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.
- They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was…
- But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it…
- A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And…
- There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in…
- It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness.…
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