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

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
Meryl Streep

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
Mercy Otis Warren

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.
Carroll Quigley

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
Loretta Young

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

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
Dave Barry

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
Dave Barry

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
Charles Baudelaire

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander Hamilton

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
Ella Maillart

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
Hedy Lamarr

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?
David Foster Wallace

Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.
Josh McDowell

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
Samuel Johnson

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger