Onced Quotes & Sayings

As for Porthos, I believe him to be eternal, like God, although less patient. — Alexandre Dumas

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Before she had died she had been young, like him, and not yet been onced by life. Today — Ali Smith

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me. — Charles Spurgeon

There's eight million people here pretending the others aren't getting on their nerves. I believe it's called civilization. — Chris Cleave

I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city. — Kyo Maclear

To do action without cuts is infinitely more exciting. — Cary Fukunaga

Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.
Angels and Demons p. 484 — Dan Brown

The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny. — Edward Snowden

School appropriates the money, men, and good will available for education and in addition discourages other institutions from assuming educational tasks. Work, leisure, politics, city living, and even family life depend on schools for the habits and knowledge they presuppose, instead of becoming themselves the means of education. — Ivan Illich

Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability. — Hermann Zapf

Between twenty and thirty I gradually became more and more agnostic and irreligious, yet I cannot say that I ever lost that 'indefinite consciousness' which Herbert Spencer describes so well, of an Absolute Reality behind phenomena. — William James