O Quotes
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“Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.”
“Once the light shines on your path, you will see clearly.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.”
“Once the makeup is on, it's a collaborative process but it's pretty neat to have the makeup sort of speak to you when you look in the mirror and see how the face moves. For me, the personality comes through that makeup and that exploration of how it all looks and moves. You try to make it more unique than just a human with a mask on.”
“Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.”
“Once the mechanisms of patrilineality, patrilocality, and exogamy were in place, it was difficult for women to escape. In time, men in some groups raised vying for status to an organising principle, competing to show their importance within the group and generating "Big man" societies. These societies fostered the rise of the state and its sociopolitical form - patriarchy.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
“Once the mind chooses the path of corruption, then the soul will also follow along, it will become corrupted too.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Once the mind commits to a story, the facts become secondary. Truth bows to bias.”
Source: Dreams of the Dying
“Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.”
“Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.”
“Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don't go around peeing on the furniture and such.”
“Once the movie's over, there's not much point. When the thing is edited, mixed, and color-corrected, and you've finished it... In my case, I never read anything about it, I never think about it.”
“Once the music gets in you, it doesn't leave you.”
“Once the nations can genuinely engage in interventions of international unity, national security will prevail on its own.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.”
“Once the NFL decided to go in on gambling, it sought to squeeze every last dollar out of the betting economy.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).”
“Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.”
“Once the others were below, Hazel and Leo faced each other awkwardly. They were alone except for Coach Hedge, who was back on the quarterdeck singing the Pokémon theme song. The coach had changed the words to: Gotta Kill ’Em All, and Leo really didn’t want to know why.”
Source: The Mark of Athena
“Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you want to suffer pain, or both. There isn't really much difference between the two. You are not conscious of this, of course, and will vehemently claim that you do not want pain. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Once the past has passed, the present presents presents. Tomorrow brings smiled”
Source: Shadows in the Dark
“Once the past has passed, the present presents presents. Tomorrow brings smiles”
Source: Nothing in the Void
“Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.”
“Once the pattern of not being hungry in the morning is set, it modifies the way you eat for life.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Once the people are terrorized, you can force a police state on them.”
“Once the people begin to reason, all is lost”
“Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry about any significant challenge to their power.”
“Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obstacle to the transformation of this statement into its opposite.”
Source: Eclipse of Reason
“Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.”
“Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.”
Source: The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
“Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.”
“Once the question is in consciousness, the answer is constellated in the unconscious... the answer often lies in the unconscious waiting for the question to be consciously asked. [...] What has to be let go to make room for the transformations of energy that are ready to pour through the body-soul? I don't want to be here if I can't carry my own weight. As life asks new things of me, I feel I must pause, go inward, and ask, "What is my weight now? What are my new values? Who am I and not-I at this stage? Do I have the courage to live with this evolving me?”
Source: Bone: Dying into Life
“Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.”
“Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Once the reader firmly grasps the truth of human exceptionalism under our Creator God, then the answers to confusing cultural issues begin to be clear.”
“Once the reality sets in of a superhuman intelligence being in control of every aspect of the infrastructures we rely upon for everyday life, we will simply have to try to come to an accommodation with that entity.”
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
“Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry -- keep swinging at them.”
Source: I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story
“Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.”
“Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.”
Source: Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
“Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.”
“Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.”
“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.”
“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?”
“Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.”
“Once the roots of love have grown deep and firm,
the flowers will keep on blooming!”
“Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political advancement, and they have availed themselves of the symbols of loyalty to mobilize popular support for their own personal ends.”
“Once the screws left, most of the six or seven boys who had been overpowered by the SAS were not in any fit state to move, never mind talk. In May 1988 Malkie and Sammo and one other boy, whose name escapes me right now, got a total of twenty-seven years between them for mobbing and rioting and assault.”
Source: Scottish Hard Bastards
“Once the script is done, I put it aside for a month. I start thinking of all the films that have influenced me, which I have liked for different reasons, and not necessarily the look, but films that have moved me. Some very strange films came to mind.”