Top 100 All At Once Quotes
#2. Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.
Thomas Sowell
#3. His voice was like a warm tea laced with arsenic, all at once soothing me and killing me.
Cassia Leo
#4. It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and revere it. How they color even their silences.
Colum McCann
#6. Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
Audrey Hepburn
#7. She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just - like, a person.
John Green
#9. He wanted to tell her that all at once he fell madly in love with everything about her, the way she kissed, the taste of her lips, her voice, her smell, her nearness ... but such a premature confession at this point could make her suspicious of his intelligence. From The Cartesian Machine
Nick Tran
#10. I'm so excited and lonely all at once. Just once. Not twice, because that'd be a couple, and couple's can't be lonely.
Jarod Kintz
#11. Sometimes life will throw everything at you all at once. You can either catch it all or reach for the things that matter most. - Kathryn Perez
Kathryn Perez
#12. Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.
Rebecca Solnit
#13. you leave
but you don't stay gone
why do you do that
why do you
abandon the thing you want to keep
why do you linger
in a place you do not want to stay
why do you think it's okay to do both
go and return all at once
Rupi Kaur
#14. Ignatius, all at once you're your horrible old self. All at once I think I'm making a very big mistake.
John Kennedy Toole
#15. When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#16. Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
A. Lee Martinez
#17. We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once.
Robert A. Cook
#18. The very moment you begin to seek your Heavenly Father, in that moment, the hope of His light will begin to awaken, enliven, and ennoble your soul. The darkness may not dissipate all at once, but as surely as night always gives way to dawn, the light will come.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#19. So many tankers come down with maintenance problems all at once. I do not think that the press is telling us the whole story. Then again, maybe they are just a little slow on the uptake. The truth will reveal that Allah has truly blessed us.
Christian F. Burton
#20. The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.
Malcolm Gladwell
#21. Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.
Emma Thompson
#22. The inside of my head is out of control. It is on fire. It is snowing. It is a wild jungle. It is an Arctic wilderness. It is everything that has ever happened and everything that ever will happen, all at once.
Emily Barr
#23. You never know what the American public is going to do, but you know that they will do it all at once.
L. William Seidman
#24. No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#25. I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once - I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time.
James Baldwin
#26. But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.
Will Rogers
#27. I feel like it's such an exercise in, like, several things to read a ton of 'Cosmo's or 'Glamour's or whatever, all at once. Because you start realizing how they're just talking about nothing for many pages, and they sort of lull you into this hypnotic state.
Megan Amram
#28. Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
Pablo Neruda
#29. Cezanne produced precarious little worlds that almost, almost, almost lose their balance but somehow hold themselves together, creating tension, beauty and danger all at once.
Robert Krulwich
#30. As he read, I fell in love the way you fell asleep: slowly, then all at once.
John Green
#31. I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
Fergie
#32. Not possible. Caristos can eye up decent boob and do security all at once.
Billy London
#33. I always knew you were tough, but you're about to try to take on the wolves, the Arrows, the Forgotten, and God knows who else, all at once. Forget brass balls. Those things are goddamn titanium!
Nalini Singh
#34. I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.
Eli Roth
#35. There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.
Ann Brashares
#36. Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.
Anna Quindlen
#37. If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.
Karl Radek
#38. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.
Lady Gaga
#39. Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?
John Green
#40. She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.
Anna Funder
#41. The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
Yasmin Mogahed
#42. All at once
A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone.
William Cullen Bryant
#43. Sometimes, he said, the important things take time, sometimes they don't just happen all at once, sometimes answers come out of time and struggle, and learning. sometimes you just have to try again in a different way.
Lynne Cox
#44. when time is tomorrow but still carries a strain of today, when we are wiser and reborn all at once.
Rakesh Satyal
#45. You know what I like best about porn cinemas?"
"I couldn't begin to guess."
"Whenever a sex scene starts, you can hear this "Gulp!' sound when everybody swallows all at once," said Midori. "I love that "Gulp!' It's so sweet!
Haruki Murakami
#46. You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Oprah Winfrey
#47. the Eureka moment felt like a thousand orgasms all at once, except not as messy.
John Green
#48. When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
Anne Lamott
#49. But this Ruth Mummert...he felt things for her he had never felt for Salome. Was that love, also? If it were, it was like a fire that warmed him and threatened to burn him all at once.
Jan Drexler
#50. God, his eyes! I've never seen eyes that make me want to gasp and giggle and do a strip tease all at once. But these do.
M. Leighton
#51. Life is so infinitely hard. It involves a thousand tasks all at once. And I am a thousand different people, all fleeing away from the centre.
Matt Haig
#52. Family will always kill you
some bit by bit, others all at once. It is the love that does it.
Tiphanie Yanique
#53. All at once he was aware that his angry spirit had stolen forth again and he was about to write letters.
Saul Bellow
#54. The room is full of you! - As I came in
And closed the door behind me, all at once
A something in the air, intangible,
yet stiff with meaning, struck my senses sick! -
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#55. I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.
Bill Bryson
#56. Time must be slowed to a crawl to make sense of any scene of true chaos - to show the flurry of human action and reaction going off like multiple strings of firecrackers, all at once. Every
Joe Hill
#57. He looks like a starving man, like he could devour me all at once. "That swimsuit," he begins. "Is small," I conclude.
Nicola Yoon
#58. Henry lifted his head and looked directly at me. I froze where I stood, feeling as if he had just told me a secret with that look. It was new . It was a question and a statement and a quick, hidden secret all at once..
Julianne Donaldson
#59. It was a machine-gun orgasm, dark chocolate, spring water in the desert, a hallelujah chorus and the cavelry coming to the rescue all at once.
Christopher Moore
#60. Why do they treat us like children? they said & I said why do you treat them like adults?
& their eyes opened wide & they began to laugh & talk all at once & suddenly everything looked possible again.
Brian Andreas
#61. Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.
Dan Brown
#62. It's seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
David Hume
#63. I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words
changing nothing.
John Gardner
#64. Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.
Djuna Barnes
#65. As if we see these worlds, the whole of the Long Earth all at once, through the eyes of a god.' Only
Terry Pratchett
#66. Listen to anything and take it apart again. Spectrum analysis, in my head. I can break down chords, and timbres, and words too into all the basic frequencies and harmonics, with all their different loudnesses, and listen to them, each pure tone, but all at once.
Thomas Pynchon
#67. Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
Alan W. Watts
#68. It was strange learning the contours of another's loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges.
Brit Bennett
#69. It was funny how just when you thought you knew yourself through and through, you stumbled on a new kind of strength, a fresh reserve of power inside you that you never knew you had, and all at once you found yourself burning a little brighter and hotter than you ever had before.
Lev Grossman
#70. Kick had a worry list. She added to it every day. By keeping track of each worry, she could put off worrying in the moment and instead do it all at once during the designated worry period she set aside before dinner.
Chelsea Cain
#71. I almost regret having to tell him this. No one should be confronted with the depths of darkness they're capable of all at once.
Cristin Terrill
#72. The gray-green surface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.
Amy Tan
#73. The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What delight this is I cannot tell!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#74. The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.
Hunter S. Thompson
#75. It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.
Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy
#76. I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils
Beside the lake beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
William Wordsworth
#78. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.
Karen Russell
#79. Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?
J.K. Rowling
#80. You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future.
Frederick Lenz
#81. This was the joy that the world sought
sacred and pagan all at once. A union between two dissimilars into a seamless one. A picture of love and deep satisfaction. An ecstatic glimpse of the beatific vision.
Sylvain Reynard
#82. I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.
Jeremy Northam
#83. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#84. Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
Emile Zola
#85. She understands all at once, with a small shock, exactly what it is she always needed to tell Harland: being there in person is not the same as watching. You might see things better on television, but you'll never know if you were alive or dead while you watched.
Barbara Kingsolver
#86. She is in love, she craves sugar, eats a dried apricot, another. All at once she is really tired. She will not wait any longer for Romain and goes to bed. She is not guilty because, she keeps telling herself, thrilled, she had no say in it. She falls asleep immediately.
Herve Le Tellier
#87. This was the desert, everything all at once, whether it was needed or not. What survived had learned to save, live carefully, and keep a low profile, even appear to be dead for long periods. Perseverance and patience.
James Anderson
#88. We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.
Mary Antin
#89. Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
Ann Brashares
#90. Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
Isaac Marion
#91. No one becomes depraved all at once.
Juvenal
#92. You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.
Orson Scott Card
#93. Love doesn't think twice, it comes all at once, or whispers from a distance.
Celine Dion
#94. He had three ancient candy thermometers whose metal casings were shaped like fraternity paddles and whose nature it was to show no increase in temperature for several hours and the, and all at once and all together, to register temperatures at which fudge burned and toffee hardened like epoxy.
Jonathan Franzen
#95. One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
L.M. Montgomery
#96. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
Larry Brilliant
#97. The thing is that oftentimes, we want to be everything all at once. We want to be strong and mature, and God wants that for us, too. But just like that flowerpot had to sit in the sun and receive water day after day, we have to sit in God's presence every day, too.
Victoria Osteen
#98. He taught me there's a place on a man's back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his spine, all at once,' Sebastian had said. 'I guess we got the same birthday present that year, big brother,' Jace thought. 'Didn't we?
Cassandra Clare
#99. And then, in the night, he'd go to the Empire again. The things that he'd felt the night before, he wanted to feel again. He wanted to understand. All at once, Dr. Carter's hand felt too heavy,
Anonymous
#100. I went my whole life without winning anything and now all of a sudden after years of hard work my dreams were coming true all at once and I didn't know how to deal with it. It felt like the world was changing its relationship with me but I had stayed the same.
Adi Shankar
