Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
It is in Toyota’s DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated.
Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own.
Along the way, let’s never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin color, society level, or where people come from. Adults need to remember to play and to be more childlike in our behavior. We’ve forgotten what that childlike experience was like.
For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.’
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can’t get a job, you can’t get a loan, you can’t get a Pell grant, you can’t get public housing.
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
I don’t care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
I’ve always said I’m going to get married only once.
Sometimes I wish I could clone myself, you know, be in two places at once.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
There’s more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you’re lost. You’re really lost.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again… Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Some friends of Israel believe that the Palestinians will never, in their hearts, accept a Jewish state in Palestine. Yet Germans and French, Chinese and Japanese, Mexicans and Americans have overcome their once insurmountable differences. Palestinians and Jews also have much to gain from peaceful coexistence.
Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‘Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.’
Once you label me you negate me.
When I did ‘Happy Birthday,’ I wrote the treatment for the video before I wrote the record. And once I wrote the video, I had a clear understanding of what I wanted; I created the soundtrack to that video.
I tell you, once a girl’s got a dose of novels she’s a pushover for iambic pentameter.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it’s OK.
A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
I was adored once too.
Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the ‘I’m a Fraud’ phase. You go through the ‘I’ll Never Finish’ phase. And every once in a while you think, ‘What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it’s received as such?’
You can never repeat certain things. It’s only once in a lifetime.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
I once said, ‘We will bury you,’ and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Once you lose your credibility, you can never restore it.
Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn’t want any other.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Once upon a time, I was really lost. I was 18 going on 19, and I was shy. All I want to do is get money, and the way I was thinking I was going to do that was a negative route.
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It’s like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they’ll crystallize into a pattern.
‘USA Today’ once did a big article called, ‘Who said it? Was it Norm or George Bush?’ They had quotes of mine and quotes of his, and they went to some congressmen and senators and said, ‘Who said it?’ It was hysterical.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.
Once you get into the world of dystopia, it’s hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don’t need it. It all comes out onstage.
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
The influence of ‘Hidden Fortress’ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.
