Quotes of: Once-more Keyword

Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more v...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

I had thought about forgiveness more and more...I knew it wasn't a light that could be switched on in an instant-it grew day by day, week by week, month by month-but something was changing inside me now during the hours when I sat alone and tried to ...

War Child: A Child Soldier's Story

A man engrossed in sensual pleasures may form a mistaken out look upon life and think that he enjoys life more than others do. But soon he realizes his mistake as not long after this he is reduced to a mere slave to his blind passions, He is doomed t...

Mohammad Qutub

You only know of existence, once you rebel. You only know of life, once you die.

Lionel Suggs

Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn’t.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

Mark Twain

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

Bobby Darin

I'm not particularly good at running things when once they get to a certain level. Once it gets routine, get me out of the way.

Jim McKelvey

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

G.K. Chesterton

Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition.

Cynthia Nixon

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

Erica Jong

Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.

Johnny Mercer

Ishwar: Bhuvan, shame cannot enter eyes that are already open.

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

The risen Christ! Once more faith is upon us, a jubilant brief keening with respite: Obedience, bitter joy, the elements, clouds, winds, louvres where the bell makes its wild mouths: Holy Rus – into the rain’s horizons, peacock-dyed tail feathers...

Canaan

As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.

Du mußt dein Leben ändern

Wake up for your call no matter how many times you fall; Stand tall and stretch yourself once more. Rise up from the ground, roll the ball and be hopeful you will score!

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

The moments of déjà vu were coming more frequently, now. Moments would stutter and hiccup and falter and repeat. Sometimes whole mornings would repeat. Once I lost a day. Time seemed to be breaking down entirely.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Let stuff simply unfold, for once in your life, without spinning all those hopeful romantic fantasies. The less time you spend dreaming up a world of happily ever after, the more time you’ll have to actually live — no evers or afters required.

Getting Over Garrett Delaney

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

I have two hands, so when I’m networking and I meet two new people, is it OK to shake both their hands at once? Or would it be more appropriate to organize a group hug?

How to put out forest fires with your naked body

The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but remembered what it used to be like to k...

Bride of the Rat God