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Ten times did God test our forefathers, and they were not so much as once found to be perfect. Avoth d'Rab. Nathan, chap. 34.
— Maurice H. Harris
Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care
— Gordon Brown
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black.
— Charlotte Bronte
And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.
— Arundhati Roy
Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!Once you were young--now you are even younger. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.
— Roger Ebert
They recount their earliest memories without any sympathy for the child they once were,
— Alice Miller
some mistakes were simply too delicious to make just once.
— Ashwin Sanghi
Fire and Blood were the words of House Targaryen, but Dunk once heard Ser Arlan say that Aegon's should have been Wash Her and Bring Her to My Bed.
— George R R Martin
People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.
— Megan Chance
For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
— E.P. Thompson
At once I understood how very different the lives of the victorious were from the lives of the conquered.
— Danielle Trussoni
It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.
— Kate Bosworth
We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again
— Morgan Matson
The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
— Kurt Vonnegut
War has become our national industry, like automotives and steel and the railroads once were.
— Patricia Cornwell
A scientist said once that if the ocean were as clear as the sky, if we could see everything in it, no one would ever go in the sea.
— Cassandra Clare
Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
What we do is bring them out in the open, show people what we once were, what we still can be.
— Elbert Or
And then I would think about the war and about the fact that those who waged it were also children once.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.
— Jeff Tweedy
-Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.
— Barbara Hodgson
The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
— Bruce Dern
Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
— Meryl Streep
God cares a lot more about who we are and who we are becoming than about who we once were.
— Dale G. Renlund
Once upon a time, there were only three or four dominant women. Now, there are 10 to 15 who can vie for a Grand Slam.
— Stephane Simian
We were very much in love - the wild, mysterious, improbable kind of love that never comes but once.
— Raymond Chandler
rockabilly, solos, which used very few notes, mainly double stops (that is two notes at once) and were primarily
— Damien Peters
Always look up to the better. They tell you where to go but never look down upon inferior because you know, you were once there.
— Prashant Balan
Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.
— Christopher Pike
just because you have stopped believing in something you once were promised does not mean that the promise itself was a lie.
— Michael Chabon
Child, looking through bubbles into the future; now those bright bubbles were all behind him. Once more he had
— Hans Christian Andersen
Once Ray was a Ewing, all the problems were solved.
— Steve Kanaly
I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.
— Richard A. Falk
I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like.
— Anna Kendrick
There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up.
— Margaret Atwood
But whatever we once were we weren't anymore.
— Emily M. Danforth
Gods were like opossums. You could go your whole life without seeing one, but once you found one of them, you found the whole freaky family. Every
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.
— Greg McKeown
Once more she noted the hectoring tone, as though she were a child, unable to make proper decisions.
— Colm Toibin
We shall be on good terms again; though we can never be what we once were to each other.
— Jane Austen
In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once.
— Edith Wharton
My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.
— Sheldon Lee Glashow
Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none.
— Shannon L. Alder
I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.
— Harry S. Dent
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.
— Catherine The Great
And here he is again, yet things feel like they'll never be as easy between us as they once were.
— Jay Asher
All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.
— Paul McCartney
Once people were born alive and slowly they died. Now one is born dead and slowly has to come to life.
— Roberto Bazlen
Once upon a time we were briefly friends with benefits. Now we're just friends at a benefit.
— Sarina Bowen
You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago.
— Timothy Schaffert
It takes time, but you come to terms with the fact that you were blessed, having once had it at all.
— Kristen Ashley
Adventures, once they were over, were things that had to stay inside onethat no one else could quite understand. — Eva Ibbotson
Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.
— Raj Kapoor
Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
— Rabindranath Tagore
You are so near to my thoughts and my heart yet so far from my body and my arms ... I once loved the whole world because you were in it.
— Brunhilda Of Austrasia
Someone once said that blues and gospel were fraternal twins, close in spirit, neither one wanting to admit how similar they looked.
— Ahmir Questlove Thompson
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
Once upon a time there was a huge family of children; and they were terribly, terribly naughty.
— Christianna Brand
Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
— T. E. Hulme
I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.
— Philippa Gregory
Gareth once told me that ignorance was bliss and I'd responded that ignorance was dangerous. We were both right. But which is better?
— Demitria Lunetta
When you hit thirty-five or forty, you know on one level that you are no longer the physical specimen you once were.
— Harlan Coben
Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
— Ann Brashares
Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.
— Charlotte Gray
We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for ghost and phantoms.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Once there were four children
— C.S. Lewis
What once were two, are one
— George Saunders
No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
— Ray Bradbury
Unbelievers are not the enemy - they are people for whom Christ died. We need to remember we were each one of them once.
— Greg Laurie
