O Quotes
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“Once a person has declared "failure", they cease to look for the alternate open door. When in reality it was just inches away and wide open.”
Source: Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
“Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
“Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self murder, and go through the act and the death struggle time after time with ghastly persistence... They remain conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have lost the physical body.”
“Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest... into which he has settled... Wisdom immediately appears... and the all-discerning Fivefold Eye opens wide.”
“Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.”
“Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges of Madison County"”
“Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.”
Source: The Greening of America
“Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.”
Source: FEEL FREE
“Once a person starts seeing his own mistakes, he starts to become Parmatma, (absolute supreme Self)!”
“Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.”
“Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available... a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.”
“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.”
“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.”
Source: The nature of the universe
“Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.”
“Once a piece of writing gets to a moment where it's not going to get much better than it already is, marinate it. If you still like the piece, send it out and see what others think. If not, it's time to put it away and forget about it for a while.”
“Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.”
“Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.”
“Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that everything I've ever learned about writing lyrical fiction has been informed by three decades of writing in lines and stanzas. For me the real drama of fiction is almost always the drama of the language.”
“Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word "myth" only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.”
“once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.”
“Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.”
“Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.”
“Once a price move exceeds its median historical age, any method you use to analyze the market, whether it be fundamental or technical, is likely to be far more accurate. For example, if a chartist interprets a particular pattern as a top formation, but the market is only up 10% from the last low, the odds are high that the projection will be incorrect. However, if the market is up 25% to 30%, then the same type of formation should be given a great deal more weight.”
“Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.”
“Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.”
Source: The diary of a magus
“Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?”
“Once a profound truth is seen, it cannot be unseen.”
“Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.”
“Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.”
“Once a Raider, always a Raider.”
“Once a relationship is done, it's done. You can't do that back and forth thing.”
“Once a renowned skirt-chaser, now an exceptionally devoted husband, St. Vincent knew as much about these matters as any man alive. When Cam had asked glumly if a decrease in physical urges was something that naturally occurred as a man approached his thirties, St. Vincent had choked on his drink.
“Good God, no,” the viscount had said, coughing slightly as a swallow of brandy seared his throat. They had been in the manager’s office of the club, going over account books in the early hours of the morning.
St. Vincent was a handsome man with wheat-colored hair and pale blue eyes. Some claimed he had the most perfect form and features of any man alive. The looks of a saint, the soul of a scoundrel. “If I may ask, what kind of women have you been taking to bed?”
“What do you mean, what kind?” Cam had asked warily.
“Beautiful or plain?”
“Beautiful, I suppose.”
“Well, there’s your problem,” St. Vincent said in a matter-of-fact tone. “Plain women are far more enjoyable. There’s no better aphrodisiac than gratitude.”
“Yet you married a beautiful woman.”
A slow smile had curved St. Vincent’s lips. “Wives are a different case altogether. They require a great deal of effort, but the rewards are substantial. I highly recommend wives. Especially one’s own.”
Cam had stared at his employer with annoyance, reflecting that serious conversation with St. Vincent was often hampered by the viscount’s fondness for turning it into an exercise of wit. “If I understand you, my lord,” he said curtly, “your recommendation for a lack of desire is to start seducing unattractive women?”
Picking up a silver pen holder, St. Vincent deftly fitted a nib into the end and made a project of dipping it precisely into an ink bottle. “Rohan, I’m doing my best to understand your problem. However, a lack of desire is something I’ve never experienced. I’d have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting—no, never mind, I was on my deathbed in the not-too-distant past, and even then I had the devil’s own itch for my wife.”
“Congratulations,” Cam muttered, abandoning any hope of prying an earnest answer out of the man. “Let’s attend to the account books. There are more important matters to discuss than sexual habits.”
St. Vincent scratched out a figure and set the pen back on its stand. “No, I insist on discussing sexual habits. It’s so much more entertaining than work.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little son watching it burn. The reporter, fishing for a human interest angle, said to the boy, "Son, it looks like you don't have a home anymore." The little boy promptly answered, "Oh, yes, we have a home. We just don't have a house to put it in."”
“Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.”
“Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. ‘The scholars‘ he answered , ‘are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science.’”
“Once a sarriyal, always a sarriyal, she thought.”
Source: Undying Affinity
“Once, a scientist in Britain asked: Can machines think? He built a machine, taught it to read ghosts, and a new kind of ghost was born.”
Source: Soft Science
“Once a script is released that doesn't mean it's the final product. It's not set in stone.”
“Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.”
“Once a seminary student asked to shadow me for two days to see what my life as a pastor was like. At the end, he said, "Oh my gosh, you're basically a person for a living.”
Source: Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
“Once A Sister by Stewart Stafford
In a mirror, admirably still call yourself sister?
Of festering, viperine plot and scaling threat,
Cast your brother out as a street mongrel,
Then counted coins from his dwelling's sale.
If this is a blood relative, yours is now poison,
And tears his, for none shall believe his truth,
That family acted so cruelly in his innocence,
What made his loved ones mortal enemies?
No apology will ever pass those lips, not one,
Explanations merely justify the unforgivable,
Sober fact imparts the brazen cuckoo nests,
With ignominy's profits in bricks and mortar.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“Once a small planet is discovered, astronomers try to determine which category it belongs to. This is like biologists trying to classify a new animal as either being a mammal or reptile.”
Source: The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
“Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.”
Source: Cagney by Cagney
“Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.”
“Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.”
“Once a state has completely withered away, it is an extremely difficult task to re-create it, as Blackwell quickly discovered. If Blackwell had been under any illusions that the Quakers were a meek and passive people, he was in for a rude surprise. He was to find very quickly that devotion to peace, to liberty, and to individualism in no sense implies passive resignation to tyranny. Quite the contrary.”
Source: Conceived in Liberty Volumes I-IV
“Once a story was unfolding, it seemed you couldn’t go back.”
Source: The Last Ever After