Once Quotes (page 9)

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• men
• insightful
• reaching

Once a certain degree of insight has been reached," said Wylie, "all men talk, when talk they must, the same tripe. Samuel Beckett

• success
• failure
• consider

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success. Nora Roberts

• simplicity
• amazing
• amazement

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing. Paulo Coelho

• hope
• choose
• possibility

Once you choose hope, anything is possible. Christopher Reeve

• world
• through
• wandering

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• book
• picked
• pick

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again. Mark Twain

• death
• writing
• vices

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Ernest Hemingway

• time
• son
• witch

Once upon a time there lived an old woman, called Janet Gellatley, who was suspected to be a witch, on the infallible grounds that she was very old, very ugly, very poor, and had two sons, one of whom was a poet, and the other a fool, which visitation, all the neighbourhood agreed, had come upon her for the sin of witchcraft. Walter Scott

• look
• father
• intelligent

Once or twice every night, serving dinner at the big round table, Enid glanced over her shoulder and caught him looking, and made him blush. Al was Kansan. After two months he found courage to take her skating. They drank cocoa and he told her that human beings were born to suffer. He took her to a steel-company Christmas party and told her that the intelligent were doomed to be tormented by the stupid. He was a good dancer and a good earner, however, and she kissed him in the elevator. ... Jonathan Franzen

• wonderful
• friend
• men

Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends. Barbara Pym

• she
• hand
• little

Once I saw Graham - wholly unconscious of her proximity - push her with his restless foot. She receded an inch or two. A minute after one little hand stole out from beneath her face, to which it had been pressed, and softly caressed the heedless foot. Charlotte Bronte

• him
• rest
• rightly

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow. C. S. Lewis

• friends
• friend
• time

Once upon a time there was a musician who slew his four cats, stuffed then in a garbage can, left the building, and went to visit friends. Gunter Grass

• love
• hope
• crying

Once off the bush. The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair. That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.-Blackberry picking Seamus Heaney

• friends
• age
• angel

Once in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us... not the person that we are, But the angel we may be. Harriet Beecher Stowe