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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.


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I was never ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, once when I won one
VOLTAIRE I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
VOLTAIRE I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn'...
YARA SHAHIDI Never think twice, when you have decided once.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.
WHITEY FORD Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.
DALE CARNEGIE I've never been lost, but I was mighty turned around for three days once.
DANIEL BOONE An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it...
HELEN HAYES I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
NATALIE PORTMAN Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God, never.
HANS RICHTER You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
IAN FLEMING For once I thought I was dead; for once I thought I had lost everything, and for once I thought all ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled perso...
URSULA ANDRESS We went to Denmark twice and Germany and also to the Canary Isles one year. I remember once when we ...
DIXIE DEAN I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
DANIEL BOONE When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twic...
SOPHIA LOREN When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twi...
SOPHIA LOREN You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face
IAN FLEMING I never won a World Cup competition. I won jumping, but never won the whole competition. This mornin...
GEORG HETTICH Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took...
BARBARA KRUGER My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to ...
ELLIOTT YAMIN I failed myself when I ruined a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be Robert Griffin III's running mat...
JOSH GORDON I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was...
NATALIE BABBITT But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once los...
JOHN ADAMS For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost ...
SUSAN HILL I've only fallen in love once, and once was enough for me, but that doesn't mean my eyes won...
KENDRA WILKINSON Never once when gazing at the sky wasn't I in awe and wondering.
JONATHAN CHEN Once is never. Twice is always.
JAMES S.A. COREY For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
BIBLE Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.
KEVIN MITNICK I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS When pleased, I beat like a drum. When sad, I break like glass. Once stolen, I can never be taken ba...
MARISSA MEYER Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappea...
IVO ANDRIć I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI In the case of a person, ... you know, I was 10 once. I was 15 once. I was 20 once. I was 30 once. A...
DAVID JOHANSEN I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
LUCY VAN PELT I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.
EMO PHILIPS My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the differ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS When I was 8, I won something, but that was a while ago, and what I won wasn't even for me.
MARTI HOLLAND I have only been a ‘Poor Me’ once or twice in my life… And that was my own fault.
GARY HOPKINS Born twice, die once. Born once, die twice.
UNKNOWN You meet a lot of people twice in life, Danny. Once when you're not ready, and then again when you a...
STEVE BURROWS When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wan...
EMANUEL STEWARD Once I, deemed myself a poet. But when I stood before him in Bethany I knew what is was to hold an i...
KAHLIL GIBRAN When I was going through a break up once, I bought myself pickled herrings and watched french musica...
B.C. STERRETT I lost some weight once, but I found it again in the fridge.
ANONYMOUS Those born once will die twice and those born twice will die once
CHUCK MISSLER I've lived a very colorful life, and I've said some things, But not once have I taken them b...
JAMES MATTIS It was one of those situations where if we would have played Calgary (who they lost to in the Cup) n...
BOB CAMERON An innovative mind is never once bitten, twice shy.
HARESH SIPPY A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, i...
JOHN ADAMS Once upon a time
I fell in love
Lost myself
And find another one.
ARZUM UZUN It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one ...
TOM HOLT I wore so much rubber when I was at MGM, I bumped into the wall once, and I ricocheted.
RITA MORENO My lord was never sane, but he was my love, once. He always will be, somewhere. Wherever it is that ...
SEANAN MCGUIRE After I false-started once, I felt like he targeted me on the second one, so I just sat there and wa...
ELLI OCHOWICZ Once or twice a year, we'll have one of those week-long cloudy weeks. And when they get those, they ...
NEZETTE RYDELL It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once-when I was poor.
LARRY HOLMES Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.
DREW CAREY I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when ...
ROGER FEDERER i was lieing to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost - I just wasn't ready to be...
NIKKI ROWE I rent movies once or twice a month. It's more convenient for me.
STUART ALLARD A word said once means alot..said twice means nothing, I LOVE YOU
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN I can remember once when they were going through the top three or four closers, a couple months ago ...
TONY LA RUSSA People always want you to look pretty. I would like to live in the Midwest in a small town and never...
CATHERINE HICKS Once Al got that interception and that touchdown, I think everybody felt it was our time. When it ha...
CULLEN JENKINS Once Al got that interception and that touchdown, I think everybody felt it was our time, ... When i...
CULLEN JENKINS When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and...
BORIS SPASSKY It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one even...
TOM HOLT I knew when you were with be, I was found, But I never knew how lost I'd be without you.
CAMERON WORRALL When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all...
DWAYNE JOHNSON I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I...
MAURY YESTON Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.
CHRIS WOODING Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.
WALT HANDELSMAN Most of us will die twice; Once when we take our last breath, and again when the world forgets your ...
T. ARCHMAN I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR It's funny, one of the reasons why I never wear my glasses any more is that, when I was younger,...
DANIELLE PANABAKER It always makes the tournament very special when you win it once, and twice is very different,
AMELIE MAURESMO New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again. I shed tears when I think about it. It se...
CHARLES HARPER New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again, ... I shed tears when I think about it. I...
CHARLES HARPER I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once ...
J. D. SOUTHER Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
TRENT LOTT I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
CAMILA ALVES I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.
JAMIE LEE CURTIS When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the w...
EMILY BERRINGTON Amazing grace! how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now a...
JOHN NEWTON There were a lot of races I was going to win at Milwaukee, but I had mechanical problems or somethin...
DICK TRICKLE On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young...
MITCH KAPOR I lost you once, I think I can do it again.
NICHOLAS SPARKS It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
LARRY HOLMES If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did se...
MAC DAVIS I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I Later on it became twice a year, which was too much. I think I would go for it as long as it's once ...
DILIP VENGSARKAR Once is a Mistake But Twice is not a Mistake!
SAHIB DINO Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely h...
PAULO COELHO If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.
DAVID SEABURY I remember in the minors, once there was a sandstorm and the game got sanded out, ... But never fog.
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