Top 100 Once A Lifetime Quotes
#1. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.
Coventry Patmore
#2. What kind of Muslim are you?
Are you a once-a-lifetime, once-a-year, once-a-week, once-a-day man?
Farahad Zama
#3. Dellarobia watched the void of this man where once there had been wonder, and she despaired of her future. In such a short time he had relieved her of a lifetime of illusions, and already she missed them.
Barbara Kingsolver
#4. You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.
Jodi Picoult
#5. Midnight Omen Deja vu - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean ... at least once in a lifetime.
Marti Melville
#6. He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.
James Salter
#7. There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.
E.M. Delafield
#8. Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?
Jonathan Carroll
#9. You can sit around and have a broken heart any old time. Rock stardom happens only once in a lifetime.
Jen Sincero
#10. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins.
Mary Cholmondeley
#11. X and Y
the Co-ordinates of
Zen Navigation
X = the limited time you have on the road, in a life
Y = the eternity you have in every hour, every day
Z = Each step you take is a once-in-a-lifetime infinite thing
Vivian Swift
#12. Friends don't let friends drive drunk."
"Are you trying to appeal to my conscience?"
"How can you turn down a once-in-a-lifetime chance to drive the 'Stang?"
"How about you sell me the 'Stang for thirty dollars? I can even pay cash."
"Drunk, but not that drunk, Grey.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#13. If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.
Blaise Pascal
#14. Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.
Henry Ford
#15. Every experience is a once in a lifetime experience, because no matter how hard we try, nothing's ever exactly the same as it was the first time
Jolene Perry
#16. When he spoke those words, it seemed to Julian that the hatter had put off falling in love with his wife until he had already lost her. 'You only love truly once in a lifetime, Julian, even if you aren't always aware of it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#17. Every new day is a once in a lifetime event. How much more exciting would our lives be if we embraced this truth and lived accordingly?!
Steve Maraboli
#18. No matter how you spend the time, you'll have regrets. It'll never become a beautiful memory. Screw the once-in-a-lifetime crap.
Minari Endou
#19. There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley's Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.
Jamie Ford
#20. Everything is a once in a lifetime experience.
Kobi Yamada
#21. May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
#22. your reading will be even better then, after a lifetime of thought and effort, because it will come from conscious understanding. Grace attained like that is deeper and fuller than grace that comes freely, and furthermore, once you've gained it, it will never leave you.
Philip Pullman
#23. Phenomenons only happen once in a lifetime.
Jaime Camil
#24. I've been to the combine a couple of times since I've graduated to see the talent coming through. It's about keeping tabs on who's coming up next. I tell them "You've got to deliver. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." You've got to be sure to succeed in it.
Darrell Wallace Jr.
#25. She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone.
Lawren Leo
#26. I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.
Jodi Picoult
#27. Choosing to break up your family is one of the most difficult decisions you will make in a lifetime. But once you have come to it; it will be with certainty. Certainty that you are ready to embrace the changes, the challenges and the joys of starting a new life.
Lisa Thomson
#28. Do not be a one in a million person, be a once in a lifetime individual.
Jeffrey Fry
#29. We made too many expensive movies trying to offset the loss of the 'LOTR' income. There was a lot of pressure to re-create that franchise, which turned out to be unhealthy for us, because it's such a once-in-a-lifetime success. It would be like trying to re-create 'Avatar' over and over again.
Toby Emmerich
#30. Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.
Winston Churchill
#31. Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period ... He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!
Berry Gordy
#32. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.
Sarah Dessen
#33. Once in a lifetime, you meet that special someone. That someone that took your breath away every single time. That someone that caused your heart to shatter into a million shards and fall like rain.
Amy Lane
#34. Opportunity may only come once in a lifetime.
Eminem
#35. Once in a lifetime anyway, it's nice to make a mistake if you think it'll do somebody some good," she
Ray Bradbury
#36. My kids only come around once in my lifetime, and they (hopefully) won't be with me forever. I chose to have them, and I choose, freely, to make them and my family a priority in my life. This stage of life won't last forever. While it does, I've climbed on for the ride.
David Albert
#37. HO. LEE. SHIT. I feel sorry for all the girls in the world that never get to experience a Jake Andrews at least once in their lifetime.
Jay McLean
#38. Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.
Sarah Dessen
#39. You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
Eminem
#40. Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort.
Loren Eiseley
#41. Once in a lifetime. Even sated in the aftermath of the best orgasm of my life, a twinge of sadness touched me. Don't be stupid, Alex: it's just tonight. We both know it's just tonight.
Kalayna Price
#42. Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at them, listened to them. this was one of those magic times. I knew it.
Charles Bukowski
#43. That we could be like normal people and live happily ever after. That a love like ours, while brief and intense, would really come only once in a lifetime.
Yolanda Olson
#44. Managing in a foreign country will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that doesn't come along that often
Steve McClaren
#45. His only possessions are the sky, the earth and a broken-down violin.
Even so ... he only loved someone once in his lifetime.. and he's 624 years old.
Kaori Ozaki
#46. Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?
Bing Crosby
#47. I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?
Jacob Lusk
#48. If you've ever had your heart broken, it's like, once is enough - you can live a lifetime on that. Ya know? You can write a lot of records on one broken heart.
Jessie Baylin
#49. First love is only once in a lifetime, and it remains only in memory.
Jessica Simpson
#50. To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.
Hugh Bonneville
#51. A real, true love that makes a human being believe in the power of destiny happens only once in a lifetime.
Natalie Ansard
#53. Girls like you can't understand, Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.
Kristin Hannah
#54. This kind of job is magic. It comes around once or twice in a lifetime if you're lucky. And thank god, because it's all-consuming and sometimes work should just be work.
Amy Poehler
#55. I knew it would never happen again. I knew this was something that would come to me once, and leave, and never come back. This would be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I had never felt anything like it before, and I've never felt anything like it since.
Haruki Murakami
#56. We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.
Jay Weatherill
#57. Once in a lifetime every man encounters a very special staircase which can take him to very high grounds; but only some of them grasp this and use the stairs!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. Once in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one.
Cliff Richard
#59. Hats are for life's ultimate moments. They're worn at races, at weddings. Occasions many of us, who aren't royals and celebrities, only attend once or twice in a lifetime.
Philip Treacy
#60. Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
Max Weber
#61. Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
Edwin Louis Cole
#62. His kiss was a once in a lifetime kiss. It was the kind of thorough, heart-melting, stomach-plummeting, mind-numbing, soul-enriching kiss that altered lives.
Kristen Ashley
#63. For Aristotle, it's not enough simply to act in accordance with the reason once in a while. We must cultivate habits of virtue that develop into a firmly established moral character over a lifetime.
John Mark Reynolds
#64. 1. Have faith in the one God, Allah, and Muhammad, His Prophet; 2. Pray five times a day; 3. Fast during the day for the entire ninth month of Ramadan; 4. Provide charity; 5. Make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime, if possible.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#65. In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.
Doc Hastings
#66. Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time
Wasim Akram
#68. I think that a show that is as successful as 'The Golden Girls' is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If you don't feel proud to be part of a show that has that kind of track record, then shame on you, because that's a privilege.
Betty White
#69. This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I can't wait to be a part of it.
Rick Derringer
#70. If you think about the market that we're in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that's happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Aaron Levie
#71. Love; I consider true love happens once in a lifetime. I really don't understand when people love someone and marry someone else. Either they never loved anyone at first place or they befool themselves by saying that we have moved on.
Ritu Chowdhary
#72. Jessica, falling in love can't always be a happily ever after or a once in a lifetime kind of story. Those happen in books, in movies. This is life and it's real. Life has no script, no outline. We broke the rules of love long ago. All I know for sure is that with you, the rules will never apply.
Kathryn Perez
#73. If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.
Sammy Cahn
#74. He meditated on the the use to which he should devote that power of youth which is granted to man only once
in a lifetime: that force which gives man a power of making himself, or even as it seemed to him - of making the universe
into anything he wishes.
Leo Tolstoy
#75. Do question, even the basics!
You will be a fool for once!
If you don't, you will be, for a lifetime..
Himmilicious
#76. I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.
Sean Bean
#77. Great love only comes once in a lifetime, if you're lucky.
Menna Van Praag
#78. Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.
David Baldacci
#79. 'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
Caitlin Hale
#80. Scott: Friends don't let friends drive drunk. Nora: Are you trying to appeal to my conscience? Scott: How can you turn down a once-in-a-lifetime chance to drive the 'Stang? Nora: How about you sell me the 'Stang for thirty dollars? I can even pay cash. Scott: Drunk, but not that drunk, Grey.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#81. In my own behalf, I rejoice that I could once think better of the world's improvability than it deserved. It is a mistake into which men seldom fall twice in a lifetime; or, if so, the rarer and higher is the nature that can thus magnanimously persist in error.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#82. If this had ever happened before, it couldn't be happening now. That's what they mean by 'once in a lifetime'.
Rachel Vincent
#83. Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
Charles Spurgeon
#84. It's sick that I experienced a once in a lifetime love - still as strong as the day it happened - & have been punished every single day since.
Cady Groves
#85. What you two have - it's a once in a lifetime - you fight for him, sweetheart. Fight for him with every last breath. No regrets, okay?
Rachel Van Dyken
#86. Once in a lifetime "True love" comes in your life. That is made just for you and you should not lose that chance of grasping it.
Lovely Goyal
#87. You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Charlton Heston
#88. We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern literary novel. These are the films sincere viewers marry, whereas, once upon a time, movies were a lifetime of one night stands.
Edward Jay Epstein
#89. I was getting tired of being in an endless succession of things called "the fight of a lifetime." Just once, I'd like to have the fight of a Tuesday afternoon.
Seanan McGuire
#90. 'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.
Nathan Lane
#91. Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.
Terry Rossio
#92. There was a time I used to cry, but that was another lifetime ago. My heart was broken just once. But completely. As
Lisa Lutz
#93. History says, Don't hope
On this side of the grave,
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme
Seamus Heaney
#94. One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.
Hugh Jackman
#95. I believe we all create our paths before we are born to each lifetime, in partnership with a higher presence, the Source. I also believe, once born, we are given the highest gift of free will. Intuition is our link between our chosen journey on our life path and our earthly choices using free will.
Christine Whelan
#96. We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.
Dimebag Darrell
#97. Cricketers like Jadeja come once in a lifetime, and I am sorry he didn't play in my time. Could have added a few more cheap wickets to my tally.
Muttiah Muralitharan
#99. I tell this to my girls all the time: This journey we're on is a once - in - a - lifetime opportunity.
Michelle Obama
#100. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.
Eminem
