Top 535 Once Quotes

Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won’t hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.
Rachel Nichols
It’s hard to say goodbye to the streets. It’s all how you do it. You can pass by and say, ‘What’s happening?’ and keep it moving, but it’s a certain element that’ll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that’s the separation of it all.
Snoop Dogg
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
George Herbert
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any

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 should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill
I don’t trust anyone that hasn’t been to jail at least once in their life. You should have been, or something’s the matter with you.
John Waters
It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures… I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with ‘Once upon a time.’
Tove Jansson
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
Henry Rollins
I hope that basketball gains momentum and kids understand that you can actually make a living from it. Not just the N.B.A. You can get a scholarship, a free degree – like, no student loan you have to pay off. That’s huge in life. Once they realize that in New Zealand, I hope they get inspired.
Steven Adams
Once you realize that you’re in something that you’ve always wanted and you don’t want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what’s right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn’t have made.
Paul Anka
I once fell through a hole in the stage.
Lemmy
Teddy Roosevelt… once said, ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick.’ Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.
Gerald R. Ford
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
Hal Borland
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Richard Bach
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
Mary Astor
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. Kennedy
Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.
Willie Nelson
My father said, ’10 minus one is zero.’ It means that even if you do good things 10 times, it is no use when you do some bad thing once. But it doesn’t mean that I think I have positive image, so I always need to be careful about what I’m doing. I don’t want to frame myself.
Park Bo-gum
Listen once in a while. It’s amazing what you can hear.
Russell Baker
Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.
Harvey Milk
NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
Noam Chomsky
You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I’ll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.
Jim Carrey
Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.
Todd Rundgren
Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.
Fran Drescher
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
Bo Burnham
Once you put everything in the right perspective, even bad times can be an opportunity to refresh your appetite, your desire.
Alex Zanardi
Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn’t ask to be a role model, because I’m not perfect.
ASAP Rocky
I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full thing. So I would go in maybe once every two or three years, and he’d do a little here, a little there; tweak you, like you tweak your car. Then I became the plastic surgery poster girl.
Joan Rivers
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Abba Eban
The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
E. Joseph Cossman
Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn’t put your soul in a dishwasher!
Masaharu Morimoto
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Joseph Hall
There are so many people getting dementia. It is like an epidemic now. It is a terrible disease because once you get it, your life changes completely.
Engelbert Humperdinck
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which onc

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France
Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.
Jim James
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
Paracelsus
We all need to make time for a burger once in a while.
Erica Durance
There’s not a single man in this world who has not cheated on his woman at least once!
Sajid Khan
A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person.
Pope Francis
That is the way it is in football: once a scorer, always a scorer.
Marcus Berg
Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they’re gone.
Roscoe Mitchell
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe
Everyone’s more vulnerable than they seem, and I think men are more vulnerable. Once you get close to a man, the whole thing’s a facade anyway. I think manhood is fragile.
Alain de Botton
You can’t get a job without experience and you can’t get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.
Jack Buck
Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
Pink
Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it’s very hard to turn it, even slightly.
Dan Rather
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.
Rem Koolhaas
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.
Thich Nhat Hanh
As far as I know, you only live once. So, I want to make the most of it while I can and work with as many different people as I can.
Mike Portnoy
The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.
Aaron Ciechanover
Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.
Ginni Rometty
Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
Dan Gable
I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, ‘How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?’ The answer is, ‘I was young once.’ End of answer.
Charles Krauthammer
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles Kettering
Pooper scooper? Yeah, I’ve done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to.
Kobe Bryant
Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami.
Virginia Postrel
We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
Gary Ryan Blair
I don’t want to start producing dressing gowns and cuff links with the Purdey name stamped on them. Making Purdey the leading gunmaker is our priority. Once we have succeeded in doing that, then we might look at some accessories, but it is a long haul.
Johann Rupert