Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.
Bud Abbott

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.
Richard Branson

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Virginia Woolf

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia Woolf

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Emo Philips

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.
Emo Philips

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
Marcel Proust

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Indira Gandhi

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
Andrew Jackson

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
Andrew Jackson

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Edward Abbey

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.
Jim Carrey

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