O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom”
“Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.”
“Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.”
“Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.”
“Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: "Don't forget that I made you happy.”
“Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.”
“Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.”
“Once you've proved to [the players] that you can help them become better players, you've earned their respect. They respect if you've achieved at a high level in this league, but that's not what they respect you for as a coach.”
“Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.”
“Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.”
“Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.”
“Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.”
Source: Amrita
“Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.”
Source: Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)
“Once you've said it, you can't put it back. So choose your words carefully in heated moments in personal relationships. Anything you say, people have feelings. If you're thinking something, you keep thinking it and it just sort of slides out, it's gonna happen.”
“Once you've said to yourself, "But I'm not using my physics in my house," or "I'm not using my ecology in my garden, I've never applied it to what I do," it's like something physical moves inside your brain. Suddenly you say, "If I did apply what I know to how I live, that would be miraculous!" Then the whole thing unrolls like one great carpet. Undo one knot, and the whole thing just rolls downhill.”
“Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.”
“Once you've seen certain things, the moral compunction drives you to act.”
“Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.”
“Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.”
Source: White Noise
“Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.”
“Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.”
“Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and they don't know. It's through conflict that you come out with something that might be different, better than either of you thought to begin with.”
“Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?”
“Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.”
Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You
“Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it.”
“Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.”
Source: The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)
“Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.”
“Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.”
“Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...”
“Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.”
“Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars getting interested, and the superstitions in Hollywood rising or falling around what is over and done with versus what's in.”
“Once young girls used to play with baby dolls, seeing themselves in the role of the nurturing mother; now they can be seen playing with Barbie dolls, seeing themselves in the place of the doll. And of course, the doll is both pretty and stacked. The pressure is on and stays on.”
Source: Reforming Marriage: Gospel Living for Couples
“Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.”
“Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.”
“Once your baby tree is in the ground, check it daily, because the first three years are critical. Remember that you are your tree's only friend in a hostile world.”
Source: Lab Girl
“Once your character is poured with vigor and your attitude radiates confidence, there is no power in any external force to have any form of authority over you.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.”
“Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.”
“Once your dreams match your destiny, your goals will turn into your achievements”
Source: Timeless Fate: Love Adventure Through the Ages
“Once your excuses are gone, you will simply have to settle for being awesome!”
Source: No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
“once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.”
Source: It Occurred to Me
“Once your fairytale gets shattered multiple times, life will finally paint reality in its place.”
“Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.”
“Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It all has to be there.”
“once your get your hopes up, your mind starts acting on its own. And when your hopes are dashed you get dissapointed, and dissapointment leads to a feeling of helplessness. You get careless and let your guard down. And right now, she though, that si the last thing I can afford.”
“Once your health is taken away, you have nothing.”
“Once your intentions are real and wise, helpful and positive, keep going forward. Never ever give up!”
Source: Become a Better You
“Once your investment account has touched a peak value, it's almost impossible to forget that number.”
“Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.”
“Once your kids are grown and you know that you're completely healthy, consider canceling your life insurance policy.”