Top 100 Once Is Quotes
#1. Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.
Danielle Steel
#2. For he that once is good, is ever great.
Ben Jonson
#3. Because your human joy fascinates me - the way you experience things, in your life span, so wildly and deeply and all at once, is ... entrancing. I'm drawn to it, even when I know I shouldn't be, even when I try not to be.
Sarah J. Maas
#4. Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it's exciting, and if you do it every day it's exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it's not good any more.
Andy Warhol
#5. Sure, kid. Look, there's a very old saying in my family: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is another wizard fucking with you.
Scott Lynch
#6. I have waited for this day, and grief faded with time.
Or did it? Perhaps grief never leaves us but is merely drowned out by a flood of life overwhelming it. Perhaps the wound that bled once is bleeding still, and I did not notice it until now.
Claire North
#7. Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
Lisa See
#8. You are now
In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow
At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore
Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.
Yet in its depth what treasures!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#9. We need ... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status, and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained.
Angela Merkel
#10. Something that happens once is nothing. Something that repeats itself, or happens twice, is a coincidence. Something that happens three times, or more ... then there's a reason behind it; whether it's dangerous or harmless, there's always a reason.
Embee
#11. Forgiving once is human, forgiving twice is Godlyness, forgiving the third time is cowardice.
Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur
#13. You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.
Joe E. Lewis
#14. The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.
Rosellen Brown
#15. The abuse of power, Benton says. It all comes back to that. We want to be like God. If we can't create, we'll destroy, and once we've done it, once is not enough.
Patricia Cornwell
#16. Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.
Ian Fleming
#17. When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
Robert Browning
#18. Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.
Sylvester Stallone
#19. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action
Ian Fleming
#20. True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
William James
#21. You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.
Frank Sinatra
#22. You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.
Frank Sinatra
#23. One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. "Once and only once" is the Extreme Programming phrase.
Martin Fowler
#24. Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.
Dan O'Neill
#25. The trouble with dying," she'd told Jeannie once, "is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.
Anne Tyler
#26. In this city, we've got a saying: once is coincidence, twice is a booking offense!
-Judge Dredd
John Wagner
#27. What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain ... To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to attempt to define it, to try and fight it all at once, is impossible. The only way to combat it is by fighting specific wars in specific ways.
Arundhati Roy
#28. Emotion is bad if it hinders the mind from thinking. An
emotion that opens the mind to contemplate several
aspects of things at once is better than one that fixes
thought to an obsession.
A.C. Grayling
#29. Right. But believing two opposite things at once is also called 'insanity.' You saying you're an exception to the rule?
Unknown
#30. The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.
Malcolm Gladwell
#31. Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?
John Green
#32. That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.
Victoria Moran
#33. He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
Roland Barthes
#34. Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.
Sarah Moon
#35. May I be awoken by the thunder of Zeus & touched by his lighting. It only need strike once. Once is enough to ignite the soul with purpose.
Truth Devour
#36. You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.
Haruki Murakami
#37. O thou, whose days are yet all spring,
Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving;
Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
The victory's in believing.
James Russell Lowell
#38. In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.
Paul Theroux
#39. I'm not the kind of guy who rides the same roller-coaster twice. Once is enough,and then the thrill is gone and so is the interest.
Emma Chase
#40. The secret to a good life," he told me once, "is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.
Karen Joy Fowler
#41. Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital ... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
Jodi Picoult
#43. The thing with the new world," the tuba had said once, "is it's just horrifically short on elegance.
Emily St. John Mandel
#45. To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.
Gretel Ehrlich
#46. Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day at numbness, silence.
Anne Lamott
#47. Anger, Obed Ramotswe had explained to her once, is no more than a salt that we rub into our wounds.
Alexander McCall Smith
#48. 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
#50. Who would be an artist if they did not believe that that happens? If they did not know it happens, because they have felt the god within them use their tongue, their hands? Maybe only once, once in their lives. But once is enough. Nor
Ursula K. Le Guin
#51. Doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.
Robert A. Heinlein
#52. You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough.
Fred Allen
#53. One baby is a miracle. To be given two at once is a gift beyond words,
Jane Seymour
#54. "You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something
Aaron Karo
#55. My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make it wonderful. I choose to love life and it loves me back in return. I may only have one life to live, but if I do it right, once is enough.
Diana Rose Morcilla
#56. Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.
Greta Garbo
#57. The sky all at once is overhead dim and grey, puzzle of blocks sprawl, their own horizon; the city looks like a cemetery full of weak daylight, cool and a little wrong, making Ella feel a little put upon, like leap-year day - nothing in itself, but a nudge jostling every other day.
Michael Cisco
#58. People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.
Idries Shah
#59. I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
Quiara Alegria Hudes
#60. Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
Edward Abbey
#61. Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?
Dan Fogelberg
#62. No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.
John McGraw
#63. Every person who comes into this world must make the decision as to what type of person they want to be. Establishing yourself once is not enough. It's an ongoing, constant effort to separate yourself from who you feel that you are, and from who you want to become.
Ali Warren
#64. Speaking one's mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#65. You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.
Socrates
#66. Always be willing to love again. Loving once is easy. Loving twice is harder, but love anytime is always worth it.
Gwendolyn Heasley
#68. The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study.
Karen Joy Fowler
#69. And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
Paulo Coelho
#70. Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two or three performances when I even understand certain things. In the old days star actors would travel the world doing the same parts over and over again.
Al Pacino
#71. It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for once, is not a crowd. Each member of the trio gets important solos, but there is also a real ensemble character.
Richard Dyer
#72. To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle
Patrick Ness
#73. You don't have to say ridiculous things twice, Holling. Once is more than enough.
Gary D. Schmidt
#75. Gentleness shown once is mercy, shown twice is folly.
Naomi Novik
#76. Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful.
Huldrych Zwingli
#77. The trick to hiding something, she'd told him once, is to put it right out in plain sight.
Elizabeth Brundage
#78. Food, a French man told me once, is the first wealth. Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own.
Kristin Kimball
#79. A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.
James Rozoff
#80. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West
#81. A man," as one of them observed to me once, "is so in the way in the house!
Elizabeth Gaskell
#82. 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
#83. Mae West: "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." Wish I could believe her.
So many possibilities in life and so little time!
Judith Somborac
#84. To do two things at once is to do neither." - Publilius Syrus
Gary Keller
#85. The reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.
Anne Fadiman
#86. The key to life," he told me once, "is to avoid the highs and the lows. It's the peaks and valleys that mess you up.
Tayari Jones
#87. The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
Orison Swett Marden
#88. Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.
Nicholas Sparks
#89. 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
#90. Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.
Mark Davis
#91. An oven that is stopp'd, or river stay'd,
Burneth more hotly, swelleth with more rage:
So of concealed sorrow may be said;
Free vent of words love's fire doth assuage;
But when the heart's attorney once is mute,
The client breaks, as desperate in his suit.
William Shakespeare
#92. With the beginning of a great & compassionate love, comes the growth of one's heart, and with that, a profound inner change. The way to opening the mind is often first through the heart. And once is the mind & heart are open, so many things become possible.
Irwin Corey
#93. I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is the 'talking about it over a beer afterwards' bit - and once is kind of enough.
Bent Saether
#94. To have died once is enough.
Virgil
#96. An idea which can be used once is a trick. If it can be used more than once it becomes a method.
George Polya
#97. Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.
Cornelius Plantinga
#99. The thing about negotiations, not to mention the manipulation, is you can't go too far in any direction. Refusing once is good, twice is usually okay but a third is risky. You never know when the third person will stop playing and you end up with nothing.
Sarah Dessen
#100. Whether it's creating a chapter of a book or a quiet conversation, trying to do too many things at once is one of my biggest obstacles to living artfully.
Emily P. Freeman
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