Once Quotes
15894 Once quotes by 7842 unique authors
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The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.
— Terry Rossio
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The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand to get a…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living…
— John H. Vandenberg
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This may sound crazy, but to love someone so much that their happiness comes before yours; to find someone who wants to be with you…
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.
— George Orwell
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Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started…
— Gregory Hines
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Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
— Annie Dillard
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If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by…
— Lois Duncan
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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they…
— Edmund Waller
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I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me,…
— Adolf Hitler
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Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled…
— Adolf Hitler
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In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have…
— Christopher Wren
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Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists…
— James R Newman
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What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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This is a beautiful time, this last age, the age of the Holy Spirit... He is crying to every soul that is walled: Open to…
— Jessica Powers
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The Rosary mystically transports us to Mary's side as she is busy watching over the human growth of Christ in the home of Nazareth. This…
— Pope John Paul II
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It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on…
— John Henry Newman
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It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops: does the Master…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?
— Origen
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Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of…
— William Shakespeare
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We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and…
— C.S. Lewis
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If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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