Quotes of: Once Keyword

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

The Sorrows of an American

...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.

The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

Stretch out your tongue and let the words drip on the world like savage shooting muses, never, never to be forgotten, if once fallen on earth, they stand in glittery defloration.

Seraphic Addiction

But somehow, once you start playing behind the steering wheel of God, you realize just how powerful it is to be the imagination driving the natural world (64).

The Sexy Part of the Bible

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.

Succubus Blues

A friend once told Megan that we are always seventeen years old, waiting for our lives to begin. More than ever, clutching to this man, Megan understood that.

Stay Close

Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield.

Skippy Dies

Whatever you dream, you can achieve it provided it is the will of God for you. Once the Lord Jehovah is in approval of it, just dream it; He placed the power in you to do it abundantly!

Shaping the dream

Life is a journey, Frannie darling," Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel." As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.

Surrender to the Devil

Never lose hope; until your bones are rotten, never give up. Once the final whistle did not blow up, keep running hard!

Shaping the dream

He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that a book, once read, clings to its reader forever.

Smells Like Dog

Socrates once said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." I would expand on his thought by suggesting, "The unexamined society is not worth living in.

Sacred Economics

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.

The Selfish Giant

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

Safe Haven

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

Safe Haven

Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.

A Season in Hell

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Once you find your positive vision, then share the victory of your loving attitudes with everyone.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.

Sleepless

Once you transcend the illusions you will discover that — you — are the most thrilling experience you will ever have.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I suppose I just don't like to think (or believe) that once a man has acquired the gift of dreaming, he should (or even can) ever lose it.

Skin Lane