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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

Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference. — Fred Williams

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside. — Arundhati Roy

Really?" she snapped, once they were outside. "Is it possible for you to go one day without hitting on someone? — Anonymous

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

The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B.
Once you were beautiful. — Sylvia Plath

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

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given. — Bill McKibben

At once I understood how very different the lives of the victorious were from the lives of the conquered. — Danielle Trussoni

If another person were to enter the building, it would once again be empty. — Seth Klarman

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

What You were Once, Was Also Because You Were Someone Else Before that — Sujit Lalwani

I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that having it broken all at once. — 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

All of the buildings, all of those cars
Were once just a dream
In somebodys head. — Peter Gabriel

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

No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free. — Yaa Gyasi

just because you have stopped believing in something you once were promised does not mean that the promise itself was a lie. — Michael Chabon

It's funny how you can become something merely by forgetting who you once were. — Chrissy Moon

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not. — Tom Perrotta

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

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings - stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again. — Greg Bear

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other. — Black Kettle

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

There are atoms of air in your lungs that were once in the lungs of everyone who has ever lived. In essence, we are breathing (inspiring) one another. — Sharon Gannon

You were still vulnerable, furious at everything and in love with it at once. — Ava Dellaira

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas — Carl Jung

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

Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. — Gloria Gaither

The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven. — Noel Coward

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

Once upon a time.. you were the happiest person ... and then you fell in love ... — Himmilicious

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

Now that they had gotten wise, it took Adam no time at all to notice they were also naked. And once it caught his attention, he noticed it constantly. — Wendy Bertsch

Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie. — Erik Naggum

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal. — C.S. Lewis

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

At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering. — Jack London

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 one
that 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

Once
God wrote a story
that shook the heaven to the very core.
Love was the only language used;
You and I
were the only characters. — Subhan Zein

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

I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision. — Roy Blunt

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

I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets! — Rawi Hage

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

Had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once. Take — Neil Gaiman

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

Once the Ahmadis were officially declared non-Muslim in 1974, a new campaign started with the intent to subject the Shias to similar proscriptions. — Farahnaz Ispahani

You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back. — Kami Garcia