Top 100 Just Once Quotes
#1. I have platonic relationships with my guy friends. There's some friends that I've kissed or whatever, but it was always just once.
Aly Michalka
#2. She gazed back at him, her mouth open, gasping for air. Her white blouse rose and fell with each panting breath. She shook her head. "No. We can't. I'm sorry."
His gut twisted. He wanted to shout, "Why? Why can I never have what I want - just once?
Bonnie Dee
#3. A simple fuck is one thing, but let a man sleep with you just once and he thinks he can bring his dog and his pigeons.
Michel Faber
#4. Silence reigned.
Well, except for Mallory's thundering heartbeat. She was in an attic loft, flat beneath her Mr. Wrong. Her common sense was screaming flee! But her secret inner bad girl was screaming oh please can't we have him? Just once?
-Mallory
Jill Shalvis
#5. But what if you needed to get what you want... just once?
Holly Bourne
#6. Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day.
Sophy Burnham
#7. I just want to be warm. Just once let me be warm. Is there no star capable of sharing its fire with me? (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#8. The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.
Bill Murray
#9. This proclamation of intent and entitlement is not something you can do just once and then expect miracles; it's something you must do daily, forever.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#10. An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.
Iain Banks
#12. You know, just once, I want a beautiful woman to exploit me for something other than my magic and dangerous political connections.
Seanan McGuire
#13. And the first thing we have to do is vote. Hey, no, not just once in a while. Not just when my husband or somebody you like is on the ballot. But in every election at every level, all of the time.
Michelle Obama
#14. Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.
Seanan McGuire
#15. Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.
Vivian Vande Velde
#16. Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#17. It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
Charles Kuralt
#18. If he kissed her once, just once, he'd walk away and never think about it again.
Brooklyn Skye
#19. I narrowed my eyes, making a colossal effort to keep them on his face and not stray down his glistening ... I slipped just once ... yes, glistening chest. Seriously?
Natasha Boyd
#20. I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything ... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.
Chuck Palahniuk
#21. We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the entire region.
Steve Martin
#22. But if you could travel back through Time, and find yourself as you used to be, wouldn't you try, just once at least, to give her some kind of warning? Wouldn't you want to make things right?
Joanne Harris
#23. Over a quarter of the words in the Bible appear just once, and of these no less than 289 belong to roots used only once in BH.
Angel Saenz-Badillos
#24. Nobody falls that way without being pushed. I know. And I know how it feels and looks, a body that falls fighting the air all the way down, grabbing onto clumps of nothing and begging once, just once, just goddamn once, Jesus, you sniveling son of a mongrel bitch, just once that air gives grip.
Marlon James
#25. Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
#26. How mad at me would you be if I hit him really hard? Just once. (Sin)
Kinley MacGregor
#27. humans were grotesque a lot of the time, but-just once in a while-there was
something about them that was marvelous, too" ("Lost Voices" by Sarah
Porter,109)
Sarah Porter
#28. It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.
Leonard Bernstein
#29. She wished, just once, someone would show an interest in the same things she did
Liz Braswell
#30. For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.
Barbara Neely
#31. I rose from the bed, my heart thudding in my chest. "Kiss me," I whispered, and saw his eyebrow arc in surprise. "Just once more," I pleaded, "And I promise it will be the last time. I'll be able to forget you after that."
-Meghan
Julie Kagawa
#32. Even if just once, the inner intent spoils towards someone, as in 'I will put him in his place', it is a statement made with God as your witness, so how can it go to waste? There is no problem if the inner intent does not spoil. Everything will become silent. Everything will stop.
Dada Bhagwan
#33. Shut up, already. Just once, could I get a demon with no vocal cords? (Anonymous) At least they're not puking on us this time. (Wynter) Small favor that. (Anonymous)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'
Homer
#36. Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Edward R. Murrow
#37. Whatever prompted life to begin, it happened just once. That is the most extraordinary fact in biology, perhaps the most extraordinary fact we know.
Bill Bryson
#38. The light of love is the brightest, because it shines into those who contact it and purify their soul. It is also dangerous in the fact that when you come into contact with it just once, you can't truly live life if it is to leave.
Shannan Jacoby
#39. some mistakes were simply too delicious to make just once.
Ashwin Sanghi
#40. Just once - and that was a long time ago, in a star system far, far away. This
George Lucas
#41. My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.
George Weah
#42. Young age can be experience just once, but immaturity never leaves even we grown up??
Bheng927
#43. Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.
Anne Murray
#44. They stared at each other and then, at last, Kai closed his eyes and nodded his head, just once. The estates would always win.
Diana Peterfreund
#45. This town needs to win at something. We need to feel, just once, that we're best. I know it's a game. But that's not all it is. Not always.
Fredrik Backman
#46. That's an L, as in love, and I love you more than I'll ever be able to tell you with words. I want to tell you in other ways. In the way I kiss you. In the way I touch you. In the way I hold you. Won't you let me say it my way, just once? - Swift to Amy
Catherine Anderson
#47. I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?
Nick Hornby
#48. [She wished] that once, just once, the fairy tale fantasy would come true. Not the prince in shining armor . . . But the other one . . . in which innocent little Red Riding Hood meets the Big Bad Wolf.
Sierra Dafoe
#49. It'd be fun, you know. Just once. To wake up Christmas morning with snow on the ground and stockings full of presents that no one had to steal and a house that's really home." She reclaimed the teapot and slowly slipped back into the con. "That would be nice. Maybe, someday, we'll steal that." On
Ally Carter
#50. Why was it always the woman who had to sacrifice for love? Just once, couldn't a guy do it instead?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#51. They never predict anything fun," Granuaile answered. "Just once I'd like to hear a prophet tell someone, 'Thou shalt win a bitchin' Camaro on a game show.
Kevin Hearne
#52. Love is the great redeemer, the Franciscan had said. Through love, all things are possible. Gideon bit back the triumphant laughter rising in his chest. He'd beaten the monster. Just once, but if he'd restrained it once, he could do it again.
Through love, all things are possible.
Shelby Reed
#53. When it's time for you to write how you want your life to go just write right before your pen run out of ink because i know the opportunity is jusT once and if u miss it, then you hustle very hard to get it
Efiba Progress
#54. For f**k's sake, Joe. I'm not in the mood for your shit." I stop walking, crossing my arms over my chest. "Can you not judge me? Just once?
Cheryl McIntyre
#55. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#56. I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'
Jared Harris
#57. If a benevolent God exists, so does reincarnation. He wouldn't send me here just once.
Zach Braff
#58. Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.
Robert Breault
#59. Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,
just once. And never again. But to have been
this once, completely, even if only once:
to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#60. I don't know and I don't care anymore. I was supposed to have my way for once, just once in my life. I did everything right and I got nothing for it.
I want to kill them all. no, better yet, I want to die. No, even bettter than that: I want to kill them all then die.
Barry Lyga
#61. ... Aedion Ashryer let himself be led into the darkness ...
He did not mind dying.
Though he still wished he'd gotten a chance to see her - just once.
Sarah J. Maas
#62. I want you to admit just once what you feel
for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even
a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry
for anything.
Lisa Kleypas
#63. The blossoms fall just once each winter, yet in our memories, they fall every day.
David Kudler
#64. No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.
Anne Michaels
#66. If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.
Rumi
#67. Trust me, if I did something, you wouldn't be asking. You'd definitely be feeling it for days to come." His green gaze shimmers, challenging me. "I might be a jerk, but I'm the kind of jerk who always lets the woman come first. And not just once.
J.C. Reed
#68. Paul," I murmur, "call me by my name."
"You know I cannot."
"Just once. Just once I want to hear you say my name."
Paul brings his face close to mine, so close we are nearly touching. "Marguerite."
And we are lost.
Claudia Gray
#69. For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
#70. Just once I'd like to meet a fella who isn't a phony. Somebody who doesn't wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.
Libba Bray
#72. Perhaps a moment comes when must is to tired to fight and want breaks free to cry I am just once before the sun goes down.
Parke Godwin
#73. It's enough for me... I saw the image
...
We were together
We were friends
We were in relationship
...
Memories are enough...
...
THAT ARE FAKE ONE... it happens just once or twice sometimes...
Deyth Banger
#74. Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding ... Just this once I wanted to let it rip.
Annie Dillard
#75. Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.
Libba Bray
#76. Don't be embarrassed about being loved. I'm not asking you for anything; just let me love you and play the piano again tonight, just once more, if I still have the strength to do it. In exchange I ask only one thing: If you hear anyone say that I'm dying, go straight to my ward. Let me have my wish.
Paulo Coelho
#77. I don't want to only ever meet you in the woods, even though I love this. I ... I gotta feel like there's something real beyond these trees. I want to be able to take you on a date. Just ... once.
Linda Kage
#78. Once, just once, I wish one of my assignments took me took me to somewhere like Tahiti or Hawaii.
Heather Lyons
#79. Don't hate me. Tell me ... everything' s okay. I was always so ashamed. I was ashamed of my weakness. But ... I want you to say it. Just once ... even if it's a lie. I know it will give me the courage ... to try and become strong.
Natsuki Takaya
#80. Still, it would have been great, just once, to have a man stare at her with total adoration. To have him be ... enthralled. Yes, that was the word. She would have loved for a man to be enthralled by her.
J.R. Ward
#81. 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
#82. The Smythe-Smith musicale. Thankfully, it came around just once per year, because Hyacinth was quite
certain it would take a full twelve months for her ears to
recover.
Julia Quinn
#83. Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#84. She had yet to actually call him by his real name. The psychologist in him had all kinds of theories as to why. The man in him wanted to hear her say it. Just once.
Kelly Moran
#85. I can't sing. Never been able to sing. I can't do voices very well. Every impression I do sounds the same. I can't dunk. Man, would I give anything to dunk. Just once.
Jon Stewart
#86. Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
James Cook
#87. FUCK, SUZANNE!! Can't you handle anything sanely, for fucking once?! Don't lose it right now, PLEASE! I'm begging you to stay sane, just this once. For ME! I can't handle watching you freak out AND deal with this death too. Just stay sane- for ME- just ONCE!
Sarah Ann Walker
#88. The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.
Anais Nin
#89. Rubbing herself against a sleeping man just wasn't on. It was morally questionable. Probably illegal. Definitely icky. But why oh why did bad things always feel so damn good? Just once more, she promised herself as she pushed back into him again. "Addie, I am not made of stone.
Amy Andrews
#90. With everything going on in my life-going on in my head-I wanted to talk with you. Really talk. Just once. A chance we never seemed to get at school. Or at work. A chance to ask, Who are you?
Jay Asher
#91. You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
Damon Runyon
#92. Because you are human, you do have magic. Get in touch with it. When you feel the insanity rising, don't push it down. Let it come out. Just once-and then let me know what happens!
Leo Buscaglia
#93. Would be a great comfort to her, and that was in fact exactly why she resisted. She had sensed if she gave in once, just once, the next time would be easy. They
Joe Hill
#94. Just once in my life
oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?
Amy Hempel
#95. is that you only get one life. We pass this way just once, Fay. Make the most of it.
Carole Matthews
#96. Your application needs to work right now just once; it must be easy to change forever.
Sandi Metz
#97. If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.
Whoopi Goldberg
#98. Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
Ian Anderson
#99. Homemade stuffing is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year.
Troy Gentile
#100. There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?
Suzanne Weyn
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