Once Quotes

15894 Once quotes by 7842 unique authors

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and… — Jane Goodall
It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a… — Samuel Johnson
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is… — Benjamin Cardozo
If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself,… — Ziggy Marley
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries… — Robert Rauschenberg
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe… — Antonio Damasio
I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains. — Ernest Hemingway
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in… — Erma Bombeck
Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act… — Wayne Dyer
High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you… — John F. Kennedy
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once." — Sydney J. Harris
Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once. — W. C. Sellar
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward. — William Wilberforce
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine… — Ellen Goodman
Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life. — Tom Ford
Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time… — Johnny Mercer
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another… — Dan Simmons
Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have… — Mickey Rooney
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life. — Mark Twain
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. — James Burgh
There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football… — Woody Hayes
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create… — Mae West

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