O Quotes
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“Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.”
Source: Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917
“Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.”
“Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air closes behind them, afterwards no sign where they went is to be found.”
Source: Personal Pleasures
“Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion would be played again, often in these same places, in an oddly similar fashion two or three centuries later. The role of the leper was to be played by the poor and by the vagrant, by prisoners and by the 'alienated', and the sort of salvation at stake for both parties in this game of exclusion is the matter of this study.”
Source: History of Madness
“Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)
“Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.”
“Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.”
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
“Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.”
“Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.”
“Once lively peonies now
wind-weary, and ragged
at the edges, hang their heavy
crowns; rain on their backs,
one final act, before
detaching from the stem
and falling down.”
“Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.”
“Once lonely, it seemed the evolution of lonely was getting lonelier, as if sad heads boarded a lifeboat in an ocean that naturally pulled one farther and farther apart from the coast of love.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“Once- long ago and for millennia before that- we had been slaves to High Fae overlords. Once, we had built them glorious, sprawling civilisations from our blood and sweat, built them temples to their feral gods. Once, we had rebelled, across every land and territory. The War had been so bloody, so destructive, that it took six mortal queens crafting the Treaty for the slaughter to cease on both sides and for the wall to be constructed: the North of our world conceded to the High Fae and faeries, who took their magic with them; the South to we cowering mortals, forever forced to scratch out a living from the earth.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.”
Source: Lilacs from the Dead Land: A Narrative of Nostalgia, Identity, and Dreams
“Once, long ago, Jesus had called her name, breaking through the darkness of her oppression to set her free from the seven demons that bound her. now He broke through the hopelessness of her grief and despair. Mary might not have recognized His face, but she could never forget the sound of His voice, not when He called her name.(From "I Have Seen The Lord!")”
Source: Arms Open Wide: A Call to Linger in the Savior's Presence
“Once, long ago, there was a world in which we called different languages "ours".”
Source: My Heart
“Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.”
“Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off.”
“Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.”
Source: Like Life
“Once Luang Por Chah was going to visit a branch monastery down near the Cambodian border. The road through the hills down to the borderlands was very twisting and precipitous. Luang Por Chah was in the front of the little pickup truck with a young Western monk and the driver, while there were a few other monks on the benches in the back.
The Western monk soon realized that the driver was extremely reckless, and he became convinced the driver had a death wish. They were haring around the steep mountain roads, with enormous drops and blind corners, screeching
around one bend after another. The monk sat there the whole time thinking, ‘We’re gonna die! We’re gonna die! We’re gonna die!’ and he kept looking over to Ajahn Chah to see if he was reacting, and whether he was going to ask the driver to slow down. Instead Ajahn Chah sat there quite calmly looking out of the windscreen and didn’t say a thing.
To the young monk’s amazement they got through the hills safely and arrived at their destination. When they got there Ajahn Chah turned around to him with a big grin and said, ‘Scary ride, huh?”
Source: The Breakthrough
“Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.”
“Once made a mistake, it won't happen again.”
“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
“Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants.”
“Once man, in his vast intelligence, thinks he has ‘figured out something,’ someone else comes along and ‘disproves’ him." Uncle Henry”
Source: Working for Uncle Henry
“Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.”
Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism
“Once Mandela was elected we could finally live freely. Exiles started to return. I met my first one when I was around seventeen. He told me his story and I was like, "Wait, what? You mean we could have left? That was an option?" Imagine being thrown out of an airplane. You hit the ground and break all your bones, you go to the hospital and you heal and you move on and finally put the whole thing behind you - and then one day somebody tells you about parachutes. That's how I felt. I couldn't understand why we'd stayed. I went straight hoe and asked my mom.
"Why? Why didn't we just leave? Why didn't we go to Switzerland?"
"Because I am not Swiss." she said, as stubborn as ever. "This is my country. Why should I leave?”
“Once married, God does not call one as an individual to the ministry, but He normally calls a family for His service.”
“Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but...well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren't going to hurt you.”
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire
“Once, media was controlled by wealth and power. Today, every individual has become their own media.”
“Once Mel Gibson revealed himself to be, like the president, a person of serious religious faith, the gloves came off. Mel Gibson has done a major favor for serious faith, both Jewish and Christian, in America. He has made it "cool" to be religious, but in so doing he has unleashed the hatred of secular America against himself personally, against his work and against his family. God bless him.”
“Once, men and women were able to turn themselves into eagles and fly immense distances. They communed with rivers and mountains and received wisdom from them. They felt the turning of the stars inside their own minds.”
Source: Piranesi
“Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.”
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
Source: DUNE
“Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible.”
“Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.”
“Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.”
“Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half-eaten sandwich of butter and canned sardines, and his mug of thick hot chocolate, which every night he poured carefully into a thermos labeled COFFEE.”
Source: Liesl & Po
“Once Modern men discern that traditional things offer certain advantages, they are always tempted to say, “There is an awful lot about this I like. But I don’t like everything about it. Perhaps I can keep the parts I like and remove the parts that are distasteful and annoying.” However, if traditional things work just as well without the distasteful and unlikable parts, some sage would have removed those part a long time ago. The parts of old things that Modern men do not like are exactly what make old things work.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Once money is involved, it is no longer social. It becomes business. Even on social media, when money is involved, it is no longer just social media. It is business. And in business, there is rivalry and competition. People can cheat, be mean, brutal, violent, cunning, tricky, dishonest, and manipulative. They are willing to do whatever it takes to win or make a profit. That is why, when money is involved in social media, it is no longer fun but turns toxic and violent. Some people are in it to win it and are willing to do distasteful, horrible, evil, vile, mean, toxic, barbaric, and inhuman things to get that money.”
“Once more a good man is led astray by the undeniable sexiness of evil.”
Source: Untold
“Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.”
“Once more, an example in humanity sees an old man by yesterday!”
Source: Voor een betere wereld
“Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon.”
“Once more for Britain,” I said to the empty room. I might not be the Queen everyone wanted me to be, but I was intelligent and fully capable of breaking the code.”
Source: The Queen of England: Coronation
“Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure he'd grasped things. How much more satisfying it was than all that skimming, all that jumping around. At present, he was working his way, deliciously, through a book on Mendel, the father of genetics. A man who might not have spend seven years watching peas, if he'd had the internet.”
Source: The Message
“Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.”
Source: Winter garden
“Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.”
Source: The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind
“Once more, I close my heavy eyes,
My dreadful fate I cannot disguise.
The darkness of my loneliness,
Strangling me in its abyss.
My hollow heart is aching so,
And it's growing ever colder, I know.
My blighted soul lies still and numb,
In the deep and silent tomb.
My hopes, once soaring like an eagle,
Have perished in the frozen gale.
No one hears my silent cries,
Echoing amidst these solemn skies.
The wintry storms that rage around,
Have shattered all that I have found.
As I drift away in mournful grief,
My hopelessness consumes me like a thief.”