Quotes of: Once Keyword

Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

The Handmaid's Tale

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

I look at the check once more and then fold and tuck it into my bra. It's not every day a girl gets to be up close and personal with this much money.

Icing on the Cake

...once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.

I Am Not Myself These Days

Once I get something going well, I'll risk fucking it up just for the action.

Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

Inkspell

Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale.

Itsy's Ugly

I wish for once that she could see the her that I can see; beauty that both steals my breath and gives it back to me.

Junk Shop Heart

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

Just Kids

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

Journey to the End of the Night

Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.

Jane and Prudence

You remarked once in a fit of pique you had made me famous. You were wrong, my dear. You have made me.

Kissing Sherlock Holmes

Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.

Killosophy

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

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!

Rain of Gold

The key of life symbolizes the map of existence. Once you free yourself from all resistance, your path will become white for the remainder of the distance.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

But sometimes everything needs to change. And once it does, you realize God knew what He was doing all along. You realize that nothing is beyond Him.

Recipe for Love

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

Rise of the Morningstar

I remembered Father remarking once that if rudeness was not attributable to ignorance it could be taken as a sure sign that one was speaking to a member of the aristocracy.

A Red Herring Without Mustard

She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.

The Rosary