Once Quotes - page 3

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. (Robert A. Heinlein)
The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. View quote
Graham Greene
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament! View quote
Vladimir Lenin
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream. View quote
Giorgio de Chirico
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. View quote
Ernest Renan
Think a hundred times before you take any decision, but once a decision is taken, stand by it as one man. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. (Robert Frost)
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills. View quote
O. Henry
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around. View quote
Boris Johnson
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? View quote
Emil Cioran
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. View quote
Emil Cioran
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. View quote
Tori Amos
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' View quote
Cesare Lombroso
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. View quote
John Archibald Wheeler
I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. (A. A. Milne)
You see much more of your children once they leave home. View quote
Lucille Ball
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. View quote
Colette
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once. View quote
Ken Venturi
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. View quote
Robert Browning
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