#once

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#been #emotion #eradicated #last #nothing

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#around #coherent #creating #grown #half-million

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#country #difficult #i #just #military

There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#felt #fit #grateful #hawaii #here

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#came #concepts #exchanged #land #ownership

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#convincing #face #felt #i #into

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#almost #automatically #because #characters #come

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#become #controversial #hallowed #once #proposals

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#around #bad #first #first time #get

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#envelope #eye #failure #feel #get