Once Quotes
15894 Once quotes by 7842 unique authors
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Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.
— Sun Tzu
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No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If…
— Sun Tzu
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We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
— Pico Iyer
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How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking…
— Unknown Author
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Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism is…
— Karen Armstrong
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We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or…
— Clementine Paddleford
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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and…
— Rose Macaulay
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I'm a firm believer that to really understand a business takes years, not months. As an investment analyst you think you understand a business from…
— Chris Corrigan
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You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it…
— Charlie Munger
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The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they are isolated from…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these…
— Amartya Sen
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It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.
— Kim Edwards
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All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the…
— Jeremy Sisto
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I…
— Randy Moss
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My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?
— Loni Anderson
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Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms…
— Meg Cabot
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This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and…
— Jacques Pepin
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You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after your daughter, it's the most beautiful thing in the…
— Ben Stiller
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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…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful;…
— W.C. Fields
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We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing…
— Mark Twain
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