Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.
‐‐ John Foster Dulles
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary
Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.
‐‐ Tom Wilkinson
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein
Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
‐‐ David Brainerd
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
‐‐ Brian Eno
Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.
‐‐ Alonzo Mourning
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
‐‐ George Sand
Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.
‐‐ Jessica Hahn
Once, my writing-avoidance behavior involved me mixing up a cleaning concoction and getting some ancient stains out of the carpet. My wife liked that one.
‐‐ Tim Pratt
Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
‐‐ Boman Irani
Once on stage, I was thinking of something else, and I forgot my line. I became so frightened. The girl I was playing with also became so frightened, she couldn't give me the next line. I just walked off stage.
‐‐ Maria Karnilova
Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.
‐‐ Dennis Prager
Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I'm hitting the bags and jumping rope - all that stuff.
‐‐ Mekhi Phifer
Once our carrier fleet went all nuclear in 2005, we went from having two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast to one.
‐‐ Ander Crenshaw
Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy
Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros
Once people come to Australia, they join the team.
‐‐ Tony Abbott
Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina
Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.
‐‐ Bess Myerson
Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.
‐‐ Alicia Keys
Once people see you pulling off one role, they think you're a safe bet to do a similar role.
‐‐ Margot Robbie
Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.
‐‐ Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to.
‐‐ Paul Pierce
Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.
‐‐ T-Pain
Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb
Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money.
‐‐ Jessica Hahn
Once, players came to football expecting to be wealthy when they retired. Now, they expect to be wealthy before they've played their first game!
‐‐ Jose Mourinho
Once players have my trust, they have it.
‐‐ Terry Francona
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
‐‐ Katharine Graham
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
‐‐ Albert Claude
Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
‐‐ Dan DeCarlo
Once Ray was a Ewing, all the problems were solved.
‐‐ Steve Kanaly
Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk
Once, right before a show, I realized I'd forgotten shoes. I didn't want to wear my flip-flops onstage because I could trip. I ended up going barefoot, which actually worked out because it became my 'thing.'
‐‐ Brittany Howard
Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi
Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman
Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values.
‐‐ Raymond Arroyo
Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The whole timetable of our conquest of the planets in our solar system would be tremendously speeded up, from hot Mercury all the way out to frigid Pluto.
‐‐ Donald A. Wollheim
Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.
‐‐ Morrissey
Once someone asked me three words that best describe me and I said 'Loud, Louder, and Loudest'!
‐‐ Anastacia
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.
‐‐ Guy Finley
Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.
‐‐ Michael Schumacher
Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.
‐‐ Yo-Yo Ma
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche
Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.
‐‐ Joe Louis
Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.
‐‐ Hamid Karzai