O Quotes
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“Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.”
Source: The Miss Silver Mysteries: Grey Mask, The Case Is Closed, and Lonesome Road
“Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.”
“Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.”
“Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."”
“Once a thing is forgotten, it's forgotten until next time. Then you find to your surprise that a lot of things you thought were essential aren't essential at all. It's very enlightening.”
Source: We Took to the Woods
“Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.”
Source: Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
“Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.”
Source: In Cold Blood
“Once a toxic thought pattern has been recognized, applying the Word of God comes next. Looking at the thoughts that batter your brain through the eyes of Scripture will lead to hope in a way that therapy alone is found wanting.”
Source: Joyful Sorrow: Breaking Through the Darkness of Mental Illness
“Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.”
Source: The Alchemy of Finance
“Once a vampire drinks another vampires blood they are connected to them forever”
“Once a vegan, we are always so, because our motivation is not personal and self-oriented, but is based on concern for others and on our undeniable interconnectedness with other living beings.”
Source: The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
“Once a week I would meet up with the coolest teacher and we'd go over my work. All my friends were like, Soooo... once a week at lunch you meet up with Mr. Schulenberg to talk about poetry. They all thought I was having sex with my teacher. But I really just loved to write and it was a nice outlet.”
“Once a week, take a day off to be generous-minded.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.”
Source: Ready For Anything: 52 productivity principles for work and life
“Once a week, I am a very desperate man.”
“Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.”
“Once, a Whimsical poet died of despair after finding himself unequal to the task of capturing a fair one's beauty in simile. I think it more likely he died of arsenic poisoning, but so the story goes.”
Source: An Enchantment of Ravens
“Once a wise man asked me, why you always smile, laugh? You seems like a casual person, you don't use to take things seriously why? I simply started laughing again, and then he joins with me laughing and teaches me the greatest lesson of life.”
Source: Who has a heart and the mind?
“Once a wolf, always a wolf.”
Source: The Aesop for Children
“Once a woman goes over 25, she prioritizes 'financial security' in a potential lover. Love and good looks are just a bonus.”
“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
“Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“Once a woman has opted for the role of the child (instead of lover) the next step is predetermined. A child must not show too great an interest in sex, on pain of losing both credibility and a child's privileges. A woman who values her status as protegee, therefore, must keep her sex drive under control. She must be in a position to make conscious use of her sexuality for her purposes i.e. to win a man who appears suited to play her father, rather than a man who excites and confuses her senses and her mind. And she must be able to refuse herself to her intended protector until he adopts her or at least commits himself clearly to such an intention. To see primarily the sex partner in a man is the end of her power over him. It means losing the motive of making him her protector - what good is a lover restrained by protective feelings ? - and being quite as dependent on him, sexually, as he is on her.”
Source: The Polygamous Sex
“Once a woman is comfortable in her own skin, living her own life and building a foundation by herself; it takes one heck of a man to make her want to sacrifice her independence.”
“Once a woman is free to desire and pursue her own desires, she moves beyond the reach of our empathy; she's a threat that must be contained or destroyed.”
Source: Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
“Once a woman is made man's equal, she becomes his superior.”
“Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.”
“Once a woman put her hand in a gate and it ate her fingers. A five-legged spider with red eyes crawled out. That woman put in three fingers from her other hand, so that the spider might be complete. Do you have that integrity of purpose, sister?”
Source: Conservation of Shadows
“Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.”
Source: Women
“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”
“Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?"”
“Once a year go someplace you've never been.”
“Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.”
“Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that.”
“Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.”
“Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.”
“Once a year the Hattifatteners collect there before setting out again on their endless foraging expedition round the world. They come from all points of the compass, silent and serious with their small, white empty faces, and why they hold this yearly meeting it is difficult to say, as they can neither hear nor speak, and have no object in life but the distant goal of their journey's end. Perhaps they like to have a place where they feel at home and can rest a little and meet friends.”
Source: Finn Family Moomintroll
“Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. Ive never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.”
“Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.”
Source: How the Water Feels to the Fishes
“Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.”
“Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.”
“Once achieved, maintaining relevance requires constant listening, questioning, prototyping and testing.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Once acquired, knowledge feels like common sense.”
“Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built a nice comfy home there, her goodness expanding until it filled every limb.”
Source: Split Second
“Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)
“Once adrift, you can go any direction”
“Once after Barefoot In the Park had been playing for about a week I went back to see it, watching the audience, which was just falling over laughing except for one guy sitting the aisle. I was transfixed. I said to myself, there seems to be no way to get to him. No one else would I watch except this one man. My wife joined me about 20 minutes later and asked me how it was going, and I said, terrible. I really meant it. There was no way to get to this man. It destroyed me.”
“Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.”
Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential
“Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On average married black women contribute 40 percent to household income compared with only 29 percent for white women.°
Simply put, all wives did not contribute to their households in the same way: Black women were likely to earn as much (or more) money as their husbands, while white women were likely to earn much less. This was certainly true in the case of my parents (whose income was more or less equal most years). But the joint tax return system, under which most married couples file their taxes together, offers the greatest benefits to households where one spouse contributes much less than the other to household income. That meant couples like my parents-my hardworking, home-owning, God-fearing parents, who wanted to earn a little bit more to enjoy their lives after raising two daughters-weren't getting those breaks. My parents' tax bill was so high because they were married to each other. Marriage-which many conservatives assure us is the road out of black poverty -is in fact making black couples poorer. And because the IRS does not publish statistics by race, we would never know.
It's long been understood that blacks and whites live in separate and unequal worlds that shape whom we marry, where we buy a home, whom we have as neighbors, and how we build a future for our children. Race affects where we go to college and how we pay for it. Race influences where we work and how much we are paid. What my research showed was that all of this also determines how much we pay in taxes. Taxpayers bring their racial identities to their tax returns. As in so many parts of American life, being black is more likely to hurt and being white is more likely to help.
The implications of this go far beyond the forms you file every April. In the long run, tax policy affects whether and how you'll be able to build wealth. If you're eligible for tax breaks, you either pay less in taxes throughout the year or receive a larger refund in the spring. If, like my parents, you're considered ineligible for a particular tax break, you never see that money. One missed tax break may not sound like much, but those dollars not given to Uncle Sam can be put into your bank account, invested in stocks or property, or used to build home equity through improvements or repairs every year. Think of that money as an annual pay raise – but if you do not get it, you cannot save it. Over time those dollars, or the lack of them, add up to increased or depleted wealth.”
Source: The Whiteness of Weatlh