#once

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#get #give #i #i think #like

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away. ↗

— Thia Megia

#crowd #energy #i #nerves #once

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#believe #canvas #concentrate #difficult #figure

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#figures #greatest #here #honors #humble

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#far #gentlemen #going #her #i

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#learned #meaning #meaning of #once #read

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.' ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#art #band #been #born #called

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.' ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#ever #every #every time #hit #home

Endurance is patience concentrated. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#concentrated #endurance

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#asserted #by the time #else #even #feel