Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
Every champion was once a challenger.
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Once I step over that white line I become The Bowler.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it’s a bad rainy day, or it’s too humid. We all complain about stuff. But… how do I put this poetically? Once it’s the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
Once a musician, always a musician.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I’m in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on ‘Mary Poppins,’ lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.
Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.
What is once well done is done forever.
I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius – and I count myself among these – have to restore the lost connection once more.
I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.
A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don’t know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that’s all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.
Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!
I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
Once you get people’s attention, you have a greater responsibility to tell them something of value.
Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
I rode a shark once. I wouldn’t recommend it. It was fun, but I thought I was going to get eaten the entire time! Nothing against sharks. I love sharks. I just don’t think we are meant to ride them.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year… a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade – many other countries. So they really don’t forget.
Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it’s hard to go back.
I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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.’
And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.
I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, ‘A measure by which white men are discriminated against,’ and I got so mad.
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.
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
I had an opportunity to meet Elvis, only once. It was at the MGM Grand. It was certainly not at the height of his career. No, it wasn’t at the height of his career, but it was still a thrill to see him and meet him anyway. You know?
I’ve had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
It’s going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
I’d see my daddy about once a month, and I missed him. I would have loved to have had more of him. He was tall, attractive and very quiet, very gentle. He had a wife who I don’t think ever really liked me much.
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set a rolling it must increase.
My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.
Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.
I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn’t have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.
Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
Someone once told me be interested, not interesting – that really clicked for me.
In high school, I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, and once I graduated from business school at USC, I started a company with my partner and had a nine-to-seven job.
Mumbai’s infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don’t think you can live anywhere else.
I’ve never once in my life had a tan – I’m basically a ghost!
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.
I think I’ve been lucky to work with so many lovely people. But there’s Joshua Bell, who’s the world’s greatest violinist. We worked together live and once, for his record, but I really would want to work with him on one of my records.
Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be ‘unseen’. There’s no ‘going back’ to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist… why would you want to?
It is time to get rid of the harmful and dangerous practice of offshore drilling once and for all.
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
I take time to open up with people. But once I know you, I’m fine. I’m a shy person.
The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.
President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
