Just this once,’ he says almost more to himself than to me. ‘Just one moment.’ Then he leans down and kisses me.
It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.
There's more to stories than it seems at first looking," she said. "Two sides to most stories. Folks better be thinking about that for once.
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
And the hunger that once chewed at them like a mean dog now seems more like an annoying houseguest who simply refuses to leave.
A man has the strength to face what he is thrown in life. If he falls or is beaten, he does not complain but gets up and rides in to face the challenge once more.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.
What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.
Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.
Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.
Evil is nothing more than that, which was once divine, and has fallen into shit." Indrid Night - Through A Glass Darkly.
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.
As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued, collagelike, to the once unified experience of life.
More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.
An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible.
If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt. Once we cross the deepest part of hurt, it doesn’t hurt anymore. . You become part of the eternal journey of love commences again
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a player, that means more than you could understand.
