Top 100 For Once Quotes
#1. Just be happy that something traveled 5,000 miles across the Pacific and, for once, it wasn't your job.
Bill Maher
#2. I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.
Rose McGowan
#3. Make sure, for once and forever, that the color of our skin becomes as irrelevant as the lenght of our hair
Alejandro G. Inarritu
#4. Every wonderful thing in our world has a fight in its history: our rights, our good fortune, our happiness. All that is sweet was paid for, once upon a time, by principled people who risked everything to change the world for the better.
Cory Doctorow
#5. We would not wake up from this nightmare to find out it was someone's real life, and for once that someone wasn't just a poor unlucky nobody in a shack you could forget about. It was our life, the only one we were going to have.
Barbara Kingsolver
#6. The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.
Philip Roth
#7. Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.
Ernie Pyle
#8. For once I am living my life rather than watching it pass in review.
Lee Smith
#9. SHUT UP!" I yelled all the way down the hall. "FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, JUST SHUT YOUR STUPID NOSY MOUTH!
James Patterson
#10. Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
George William Curtis
#11. For once Yancy didn't mind driving to Miami. Dr. Rosa Campesino had agreed to meet for lunch. On the Eighteen-Mile Stretch he got stuck behind a minivan with a CHOOSE LIFE bumper sticker. "Choose the accelerator! How's that for starters?" Yancy was shouting, pounding on the horn.
Carl Hiaasen
#12. For once, Evie didn't know what to say. She hadn't really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who occasionally remembered to put on a tie. But it was clear that he was, indeed, human, with a deep wound named Rotke.
Libba Bray
#14. A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.
Benjamin Franklin
#15. I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good to feel normal for once, and then the next day, I was in the gym again.
Aly Raisman
#16. My heart throbs and aches and, for once, it's not for myself. It's for all of us. It's for everyone who knows what it's like to be helpless, to have to watch on the sidelines, to be paralyzed, literally unable to do anything.
Sarah Wylie
#17. Stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven one evening in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself.
Anne Frank
#18. An hour without you Is like ages but a minute with you is like my life lived for once and all
Shobhit Agarwal
#19. My friend ... care for your psyche ... know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves -Socrates
Socrates
#20. I walked out of his room sure I'd said the right thing maybe not as a father but as a Dad. I'd said the right thing, for once in my life.
Steven Herrick
#21. I keep wondering, if all of it is my fault. Where does it start, Tieren? With Holland's choice, or with mine?"
The priest looked at him, eyes bright within his tired face, and shook his head. For once, the old man didn't seem to have the answer.
V.E Schwab
#22. I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.
Charles Spurgeon
#23. For once, the only one she had to please with her decision was herself, and the truth was, Gabrielle had been far happier as a pretend goblin, than a pretend proper lady.
Drew Hayes
#24. Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people for once. How we going to make it in this country if we don't make our own business?
Zadie Smith
#25. And that Bagel got enough exercise beforehand so that he'd act like a beagle instead of a banshee (for once).
Anonymous
#26. For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.
Paul Torday
#27. If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
#28. Was that Will?" she said finally.
Henry arched one ginger eyebrow. "Perhaps he's been kidnapped and replaced by an automaton," he suggested. "It seems possible ... "
For once Charlotte could only find herself in agreement.
Cassandra Clare
#29. For once in your life, listen to your younger sister. She's taller, and she knows better than you
Stephanie Perkins
#30. You may play at love-making till you lose the power of loving truly, or forfeit for evermore the right of entrance into love's most holy place. Finally, you may find it impossible to convince another that for once you are in dead earnest, and that the time of love has come to you at length.
F.B. Meyer
#31. Night soil oozed onto my cloak, and I wondered why all my adventures involved foul odour. Why could I not for once frolic in a meadow of flowers, or escape in a hamper of fresh laundry? No, I must endure night soil and prison cells and unwashed soldiers ...
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#32. for once in a long time, he felt good. No worries, just possibilities. Endless possibilities.
David Baldacci
#34. But the danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop. I don't know anything harder to control than hating. Easier to kick drinking than to master hate. And that is saying something.
Philip Roth
#35. There's more to stories than it seems at first looking," she said. "Two sides to most stories. Folks better be thinking about that for once.
Augusta Scattergood
#36. For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
Anita Brookner
#37. Do you know what that's like? How good it feels? For once in my life, someone wants me.
Brynna Gabrielson
#38. For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.
Halldor Laxness
#39. I accepted being a damn damsel in distress for you. You can be the hunky archangel in distress for once.
Nalini Singh
#40. Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?
Sigmund Freud
#42. At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.
Sandra Bullock
#43. As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.
Sarah Dessen
#44. I wish my nose would blow me for once.
Brian Celio
#45. I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.
Sarah Dessen
#46. For once I've met a girl whose beauty on the inside is so powerful and deep, the surface beauty is almost secondary
Julie Lessman
#47. Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal ... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
George Herbert
#49. For once the sky was clear, the high Ramtops standing out crisp and white like the brides of the sky (with their trousseaux stuffed with thunderstorms)
Terry Pratchett
#50. Then to this earthen Bowl did I adjourn
My Lip the secret Well of Life to learn:
And Lip to Lip it murmur'd
'While you live,
Drink!
for once dead you never shall return.
Omar Khayyam
#51. We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.
Melina Marchetta
#52. I stood up, and my pants ripped completely across the seam. It was inevitable, but for once in my life, my timing had been decent.
Joan Bauer
#53. Nobody treating us like kids. For once, we gt to be equals, not babies. Could use more of that in the twenty-first. Age doesn't make grown-ups.
Joss Whedon
#54. No law against waiting," I said, "people do it all the time." For once, I didn't say too much, I didn't say too little, I said just what I said and then walked.
Fanny Brice
#55. For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
Virginia Woolf
#56. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.
Henry David Thoreau
#57. And wonders of wonders, they both shut up and did as I said.
If I'd had time I would have pulled out my journal and made a note: Shame and Terric actually listened to me for once. Warn Hell. There's a freeze coming.
Devon Monk
#58. For once he wanted to wake up the next day and feel something.
Samantha Sotto
#59. As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful ... but so frightening.
Alice Walker
#60. So it is that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, philosophy abhors an answer, for once the truth is truly attained, the game is truly up.
Dan Garfat-Pratt
#61. I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.
Jermaine Dupri
#62. Any game plan? Xypher asked Sin.
Don't die.
I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me.
Kat scoffed at his sarcasm. What are you bitching about, Xypher? You're already dead.
He laughed. You know, for once, it's good to be me.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#63. No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.
Ace Antonio Hall
#64. Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
Kate Reardon
#65. 'Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.
John Barrowman
#66. Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. For once in your life, here's your miracle, stand up and fight.
Kenny Loggins
#68. Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow-she was, in this moment, wiped clean.
J.R. Ward
#69. He wondered what life had in store for them.
And for once, he couldn't wait to find out.
Jennifer Kacey
#70. Maybe it was time to cut the strings of everyone's expectations and free-fall for once in her life
Miranda Liasson
#71. He promised you a lot and he promised it to someone who needed it to be true. There was a disconnect in your relationship - I don't know where it stems from or why, but he did know that for once in your life you needed to not be let down. He wasn't selfless enough to do that." Oh
Tarryn Fisher
#72. Hauk said under his breath. "Since I've obviously been doing something wrong - " "Yeah," Jayne raked him with a sneer, "lay off the cheap 'hos, and try finding a decent woman for once." Hauk
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#73. It is not what I had planned - this day, this moment, these unlikely relationships, both old and new. Yet I feel overcome with peace and certainty that, for once, I am exactly where I should be.
Emily Giffin
#74. But damn, how I wanted, just for once in my godforsaken life, to be the hero, the knight in shining armor, the guy she deserved to have.
Rachel Van Dyken
#75. The world around me was oblivious, but for once, I felt absolute
Rebecah McManus
#76. For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his diary: I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I feel, no matter what sorrows come, the joys will have overbalanced them.
Edmund Morris
#77. He's an intricate, mesmerizing puzzle; I only succeeded at putting the pieces together because for once in my life I observed. I stopped talking long enough to listen - really listen - not just to what's said, but also to everything that goes unspoken.
Jody Gehrman
#78. And with it all, he was proud of himself. He had brought his mother to tears. "Let her cry for once. Not me. It is time for her to learn.
Norman Mailer
#79. For once, I understood the Caleb mania. He was like a jalapeno, bright and smooth, but dangerously hot. A small part of me wanted to bit him.
Tarryn Fisher
#80. For once in my life, I was going to get through a situation with a little dignity. OK, I probably wasn't, but I would fake it as if my life depended on it.
Molly Harper
#81. In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
Bee Wilson
#82. For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.
Richelle Mead
#83. Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do?
J.K. Rowling
#84. There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.
Madeline Miller
#85. I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.
Dan Simmons
#86. I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all ... a day ... an hour.
George R R Martin
#87. I felt lighter when I had finished, and for once emptiness was a sweet relief and a condition to be treasured.
Rachel Hartman
#88. come to the brink of eternity from which nothing can vanish - no hope, no happiness, no vision of a face seen through tears. Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean, plunge it into the deepest fullness. Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe. Deity
Rabindranath Tagore
#89. For once, I hold onto her craziness for strength. Sometimes , I just have to let go and let me inner Mom out.
Susan Ee
#90. For once you must try not to shirk the facts:
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
Bertolt Brecht
#91. I've no need of reasons. The doing's enough.'
Well said for once, the girl thought. The doing was everything.
David Hewson
#92. Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?
Eoin Colfer
#93. You don't have any balls?' For once I wasn't trying to be insulting.
Chantal Halpin
#94. My heart was simultaneously broken and filled with lust, I was exhausted, and I loved every minute of it. It was strange and elating to find myself for once the weaker.
Michael Chabon
#95. For once, I'll be proud to be in the shadows.
Lydia Kang
#96. Jesus Christ. He was wearing a suit for once, a dark gray ensemble that looked tailored to fit his wide shoulders, full arms, slim hips, and muscular thighs. How the hell did he go through the day without getting slipped a Rohypnol by every woman he came in contact with?
Mariana Zapata
#97. Kiss me, Jack," I begged, forcing myself to ask for what I truly wanted for once. "I can't," he replied with a sigh of frustration. "Please," I whimpered desperately. "When I kiss you, it will be everywhere. When I kiss you, I won't stop there. If I taste you, I'll want to taste everything.
L. H. Cosway
#100. I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down ... How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death?
Roman Payne
