One Time Quotes - Page 2

• My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

  Reba McEntire

  Grandchildren, Winning, Awards

  13 Copy quote

• Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Majority, Followers

  21 Copy quote

• We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.

  Pat Paulsen

  Beautiful, Land, Effort

  "Paulsen's Running - But Where Is He?" by David Holmstrom, www.csmonitor.com. February 05, 1992.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.

  Michael Jackson

  Play, America, Car

  10 Copy quote

• And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

  Enrique Iglesias

  People, Asking, Kind

  12 Copy quote

• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  Zac Efron

  Girl, Guy, Embarrassed

  8 Copy quote

• Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory.

  Roger Ebert

  Religious, War, Paris

  59 Copy quote

• At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

  David Duchovny

  Artist, People, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.

  Snoop Dogg

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!

  Beth Ditto

  Joy, Overcoming, Baptists

  "'Everything that you think is weird is normal to me'". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Government, Boss

  9 Copy quote

• We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.

  Hillary Clinton

  New York, Knows, Millions

  Hillary Clinton's remarks during the Democratic Presidential debate in Philadelphia, www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Death, Dying

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.414, Wordsworth Editions

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

  Orlando Bloom

  Character, Thinking, Remember

  9 Copy quote

• I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

  Emma Watson

  Art, Larks, Television

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

  Lawrence Welk

  Music, Orchestra, Shampoo

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Time, Mistake

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.112, Penguin

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Love, Encouragement, Religious

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.289, Macmillan

  100 Copy quote

  Show source

• A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.

  Mitch Daniels

  People, Decision, Doe

  4 Copy quote

• San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

  George Halas

  Mean, Cities, San Francisco

  11 Copy quote

• I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, Actresses, Goodness

  "Michelle Pfeiffer: 'I never had a big game plan'". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

  Lady Gregory

  Son, Race, Land

  Lady Gregory (1905). “Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.

  Crystal Gayle

  Fun, Thinking, Surfing

  17 Copy quote

• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Time

  39 Copy quote

• I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

  Gene Wilder

  Believe, Names, Devil

  "An Interview with Gene Wilder on a Career in Comedy and the First Person He Tried to Make Laugh: His Mother". Interview with Brian Braiker, www.newsweek.com. March 17, 2005.

  289 Copy quote

  Show source