One Time Quotes - Page 4

• Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change?

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Brother, Bed

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• At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

  Albert Camus

  People, Normal, Loved Ones

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.65, Vintage

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• I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

  Virginia Woolf

  Gifted

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.136, Virginia Woolf

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• No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Childhood, Parent, Adults

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• And now, sis. Transportation for the Hunters, you say? Good timing. I was just about ready to roll." These demigods will also need a ride," Artemis said, pointing to us. "Some of Chiron's campers." No problem!" Apollo checked us out. "Let's see... Thalia, right? I've heard all about you.". Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo." Zues's girl. yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree didn't you? Glad your back. I hate it when pretty girls get turned into trees. Man, I remeber one time-

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Hate, Men

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Powerful, Men, Evil

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.

  Michelle Sagara

  Trying, Lasts, Failing

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• Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo." Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn't you? Glad you're back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time—

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Hate, Men

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Raven! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!"..."But I thought it was just the one time?

  Ellen Schreiber

  School, Ravens, Tomorrow

  Ellen Schreiber (2010). “Vampire Kisses: The Beginning”, p.9, Allen & Unwin

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• I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in pain? A woman's scream of terror? A gunshot? A baby crying? And the professor shakes his head and says, 'No, the scariest noise is, you're all alone in your dark house, you know you're all alone, you know that there is no chance anyone else is home or within miles—and then, suddenly, from upstairs, you hear the toilet flush.

  Harlan Coben

  Baby, Pain, Home

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• I wronged him, Katra. Greatly. I had the entire world in my hand at one time and I didn’t know it. I let stupidity blind me and I lost him because of that. (Artemis) Then tell him you’re sorry. (Kat) As your father would say, there are some things ‘sorry’ can’t repair. Some pains run too deep to ever be healed by something as simple as words, no matter how much you mean them. (Artemis)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Sorry, Pain

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• At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me, like perhaps I wasn't capable of having that many people in my life at any one time. My mom turned up, Nate walked away, one door opening as another clicked shut.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mom, Doors, People

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.254, Penguin

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• my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

  Charles Bukowski

  Youth, Celebration, Knows

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• Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.

  Steven Wright

  Time, Sorry, Mind

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• One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Nice, Struggle

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.

  Nicholas Sparks

  All Time, Understood, God's Presence

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Last Song: Student edition”, p.456, Hachette UK

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• I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only think I could compare it to was the feeling I got one time when I walked from the peach stand and saw the sun spreading across the late afternoon, setting the top of the orchard on fire while darkness collected underneath. Silence had hovered over my head, beauty multiplying in the air, the trees so transparent I felt like I could see through to something pure inside them. My chest ached then, too, this very same way.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Moon, Thinking, Air

  "The Secret Life of Bees". Book by Sue Monk Kidd, November 8, 2001.

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• The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.

  William Goldman

  Feet, Tree, Tears

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know, Talon. Towels look really good on you. You go outside like that and you’ll start a whole new fashion craze. (Sunshine) Do you always say everything that comes to your mind? (Talon) Mostly. I do have some thoughts I keep to myself. I used to not care and would say anything at all, but then one time my college roommate called the psycho unit on me. You know, they really do have white coats. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fashion, Sunshine, College

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• Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

  Charles Stross

  Years, Nuts

  Charles Stross (2010). “Overtime: A Tor.Com Original”, p.5, Macmillan

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• I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.

  Donna Tartt

  Numbers, Stories, Might

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.5, Vintage

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• I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, "No, but he and Ken got married last week." Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check.

  James Howe

  War, Clueless, Mean

  James Howe (2005). “Totally Joe”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Magazines, Closets, Time Magazine

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• Hopeless implies that at one time there was hope. And that's another word I don't understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices. [Zarek]

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Choices, Hopeless

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.248, Macmillan

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• Love can touch us one time And last for a life time And never let go till We're gone.

  Celine Dion

  I Love You, Letting Go, Time

  Song: My Heart Will Go On

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