Once Quotes

15894 Once quotes by 7842 unique authors

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed. — Dustin Hoffman
If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants,… — Steven Chu
People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is… — Garrett Hardin
We only need to be lucky once. You need to be lucky every time. — Margaret Thatcher
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then… — Henry Jenkins
Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them. — William S. Burroughs
Relationships are forever. They are eternal. Not just permanent in this lifetime. Once you establish a relationship, it is an eternal relationship. — Esther Hicks
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy… — John Keats
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn… — William Cowper
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty… — John Philpot Curran
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not give her all,… — Clarence Darrow
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make… — Honore de Balzac
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the… — Thomas Jefferson
If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands,… — Lloyd Alexander
When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise… — Alexander McQueen
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.… — Samuel Johnson
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway… — Felix Frankfurter
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does… — Mark Twain
Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman. — Robert Breault
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
This house isn't mine anymore, but the memories are; the memories can't be sold. The building that housed my once-upon-a-time dreams stands for someone else… — Cecelia Ahern
A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." — Robert Breault
There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that. — Harold Robbins

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