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Once Quotes by Winston Churchill
- If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come…
- Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I…
- You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be…
- The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.
- History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards…
- The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always…
- Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may…
- I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out…
- Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away…
- If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory…
- I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.
- When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the…
- Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
- It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members. It…
- Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and…
- One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The…
- I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there…
- I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss.…
- In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
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