The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
Conan O'Brien

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
Gary Ryan Blair

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
Gloria Steinem

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
Mao Tse-Tung

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Elie Wiesel

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
Larry Bird

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Victor Hugo

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Gertrude Stein

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Germaine Greer

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.
Brett Favre

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'
Jimmy Carter

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
William J. Clinton

I can't die but once.
Harriet Tubman

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. Wells

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.
Norman Rockwell