Once Said Quotes

#1. A business suit, Didier once said to me, is nothing but a military uniform, stripped of its honour. And

Gregory David Roberts

#2. For a wise man, I have been told, once said, 'Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.' But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

Isaac Asimov

#3. We find what we are looking for in life, her father had once said to her, which was true
if you look for happiness, you will see it; if you look for distrust and envy and hatred
all those things
you will find those too.

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

Flora Thompson

#5. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm.

Carmine Gallo

#6. Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter, they fling it at the sky like paint pots full of rainbow colors.

Malachy McCourt

#7. Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

Marjorie M. Liu

#8. It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

Lewis Carroll

#9. But, as Einstein once said, "For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent."5

Brian Greene

#10. Thoreau once said if you see a man approach you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life; it is hard to restrain the impulse in talking with social engineers.

William H. Whyte

#11. Mae West, a famous vaudeville actress, once said, "A man's kiss is his signature." I grinned to myself. If that was true, then Ren's signature was the John Hancock of kisses.

Colleen Houck

#12. Listening is hard, as my friend once said, because you run the risk of having to change the way you see the world.

Zia Haider Rahman

#13. Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would elevate his Master, talk less of what he himself was doing, and become smaller and smaller in his own esteem, until, like the morning star, he faded away before the rising sun.

Dwight L. Moody

#14. Someone once said to me that I've always been his, and that even if he never got to keep me, I'd still be his. Well I'm yours, Ryan, and even if you have to leave me, I'll always be yours.

Kate McCarthy

#15. Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#16. I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.

Jon Ronson

#17. Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge," Aomame said.
"Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire's budget deficits. It has no moral significance.

Haruki Murakami

#18. Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Billie Holiday

#19. Somebody once said, educate a woman and you will educate a family. I am saying, empower a woman to become an entrepreneur, and you will create an entire family of entrepreneurs. Woman entrepreneurship is the need of the nation right now. It's the surest and quickest way to make India a superpower.

Vishwas Mudagal

#20. Because Reagan once said, you can't be for big government, big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. Boy,

Ted Cruz

#21. It was once said that religion explains in terms of agents what science explains in terms of processes.

Anthony Peake

#22. Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

Anatole Broyard

#23. I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.

Jonathan Stroud

#24. A wise man once said all children are born knowing what the angels look like

Daniel Gottlieb

#25. If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth living.

Aleksandar Hemon

#26. She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.

Ellen Hopkins

#27. Someone once said to me that success isn't everything and I think I know what they really meant. I believe what they really meant was that money wasn't everything and I certainly agree with that. But I do believe that success IS everything.

Jim Rohn

#28. Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#29. I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

Ralph Nader

#30. I think someone, somewhere, at some time once said, 'Nuance is a bitch!' ".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#31. As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Joanna Russ

#32. You can't help what you feel, Moira once said, but you can help how you behave.

Margaret Atwood

#33. Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said, "A goal without a plan is just a wish.

David Airey

#34. Somebody once said that if many people had not read about romantic love and seen it on the screen, they would never look for it themselves. I believe this. And along with it I believe that if many people were not ashamed to be thought deficient in "family feeling" they would never have children.

Sydney J. Harris

#35. Joe Louis once said, "Every fighter has a plan until they get hit.

Thomas J. Dorsey

#36. 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

#37. Keeping an open mind is a virtue - but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out.

Carl Sagan

#38. The goyim are a curious people," Malpesh once said to me, before he had discovered who and what I was. "Not curious that they want to know things," he clarified, "curious that they don't.

Peter Manseau

#39. Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.

Haruki Murakami

#40. Nietzsche once said "that for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts." I didn't believe that, but to willfully defy the quote was to tempt fate - and if to find it true, to know nothing remained but emptiness.

Ron Rash

#41. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."

Charles Darwin

#42. Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected.

Thomas Sowell

#43. Father once said the real language of diplomacy was in the space between words.

Roshani Chokshi

#44. I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

Bill Fitch

#45. Someone once said that blues and gospel were fraternal twins, close in spirit, neither one wanting to admit how similar they looked.

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#46. As Dr. King once said, Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Gloria Steinem

#47. I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

Nikita Khrushchev

#48. The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

Frank Arthur Swinnerton

#49. He tried to get drunk, "to forget about life for awhile," as that old
Billy Joel song once said, but the scotch couldn't anesthetize his pain
and provide a retreat from the reality of his latest failures.

Keith Steinbaum

#50. As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking.

David Levithan

#51. Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

Gene Tierney

#52. A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

Kate Greenaway

#53. Before you have children, the novelist Fay Weldon once said, you can believe you are a nice person: after you have children you understand how wars start.

Adam Phillips

#54. Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.

Dustin Hoffman

#55. There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.

Gregory David Roberts

#56. November 18 ... I dig musicians, I feel they have the most to offer me mentally and emotionally because they think basically along the same lines that I do; extremely creative people. Music is Life. As Captain Beefheart once said 'God is a perfect musical note.

Pamela Des Barres

#57. B. Anthony once said that woman must not depend on the protection of man, but be taught to protect herself." "I

Abigail Keam

#58. Deepak Chopra once said: "All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Alessandra Torre

#59. Secretary of Defense once said, "You go to the zombie apocalypse with the tech you have not the tech you want." Of course Donald Rumsfeld didn't say exactly that, but the meaning is similar.

Perry Kivolowitz

#60. I've done my part, played my hand, even thrown in my cards when I had to. I've bet what I didn't have and bluffed until I had it. Link once said: Ridley Duchannes is always playing a game. I never told him, but he was right.

Kami Garcia

#61. Years ago at music camp Harry once said to me, "He's not just a musical prodigy, you know. He's a musical genius." It comes back to me now. And I laugh when I kiss my 'musical genius' because really he's just Flynn.

Tabitha Suzuma

#62. Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

Cher

#63. A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it's not the work they're supposed to be doing.

K.J. Parker

#64. Howard Thurman once said, Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive.

Steven Kotler

#65. As the seventeenth-century French philosopher Montaigne once said, "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened.

Kristin Neff

#66. Lincoln himself once said, "The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves." He fiercely believed in self-sufficiency, and in the maturity and character that struggles and hardships can bring.

John Wooden

#67. A wise man once said NOTHING ... He just let her vent, nodded his head and live happily ever after!

Tanya Masse

#68. Aristotle once said, To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.

Dave Ramsey

#69. Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.

Jerry Springer

#70. I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.

George Shearing

#71. Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

Jane Fonda

#72. I think overall it's a disadvantage," Jeb Bush once said of what it meant for his business career that he was the son of an American president and the brother of an American president and the grandson of a wealthy Wall Street banker and US senator.

Malcolm Gladwell

#73. A certain wise man once said that God didn't play dice with the universe, but that man was wrong. Sometimes I think He must even try Russian roulette.

Daina Chaviano

#74. Someone once said there is a fine line between love and hate, and that you cannot hate someone without having cared first. Think about it, Elise. That would mean the opposite of love is indifference, or the absence of caring.

Sandy Raven

#75. The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.

Lee Child

#76. The Trappist monk Thomas Keating once said, The cross Jesus asked you to carry is yourself. It's all the pain inflicted on you in your past and all the pain you've inflicted on others.

Brennan Manning

#77. As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing ... playing helpless.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#78. I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters

David Sedaris

#79. The world, someone once said, gives back what is given. In abundance. But then, as Kallor would point out, someone was always saying something. Until he got fed up and had them executed.

Steven Erikson

#80. A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.

Halldor Laxness

#81. Somebody close to me once said, 'Oh, no man will ever accept your children.' And I just thought it was the most horrifying thing someone has ever said to me in my entire life. I was determined to find somebody who would make that not true.

Reese Witherspoon

#82. Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

Gabriel Byrne

#83. A friend of mine once said he like his women like his parmesan: strong smelling and shaved. I don't agree with that, but I don't like hairy women.

Alan Partridge

#84. Kahn once said, The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Robert Hughes

#85. Abraham Lincoln once said that if you are a racist, I will attack you with the north. And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace.

Michael Scott

#86. Lord Uthe once said I wouldn't be the one at the head of the army, storming the castle. I'd be the engineer, tunneling beneath to bring the whole thing crashing down.

Anonymous

#87. Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

Thomas Sowell

#88. Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Wendell Mayes

#89. Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.

Donna Lynn Hope

#90. As a Swiss writer once said, "We wanted a labor force but human beings came," and what nobody had foreseen was that those workers would bring their mosques, their holy book, and huge swathes of their culture with them.

Terry Hayes

#91. The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour's need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.

Rob Bell

#92. Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.

Joyce DeWitt

#93. I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour.

Viktor E. Frankl

#94. It was once said that to hide something from prying eyes you must place it where people can see it.

Micheal Rivers

#95. The desire forcontinuity of being-loved-alone seems to me "the error bred in the bone" of man. For "there is no one-and-only, as a friend of mine once said in a similar discussion, "there are just one-and-only moments.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#96. A wise man once said that a person is known by
the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the
company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially
at the strategic decision making level.

Anuj

#97. Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again
S-E-R-F music.

Jello Biafra

#98. A Kenyan man once said to me, 'You can get used to anything when money's involved.' He used to stick mice up his ass for twenty bucks at a time. -Spider Jerusalem

Warren Ellis

#99. Mother Teresa once said, "Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile." ... The last thing many believers need is to go to another Bible study.

Rick Warren

#100. Women can't add, he once said, jokingly. When I asked him what he meant, he said, For them, one and one and one and one don't make four. What do they make? I said, expecting five or three. Just one and one and one and one, he said.

Margaret Atwood