A Quote by William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

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William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
British - Politician
March 15, 1779 - November 24, 1848

It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.

John Maynard Smith

I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.

Asma Jahangir

I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.

Mayim Bialik

I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.

R. S. Thomas

I understand, certain scenes have to have a lot of takes. As an actor, I think it's quite nice to have a handful of takes, because you don't want to do it once or twice; I think once or twice sometimes is quite terrifying because you don't really feel like you've given them what you want.

Luke Evans

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.

Joseph Epstein

We were Orthodox Jews, but we really didn't deserve it. I mean, bacon - my father said, 'Don't put bacon in the house,' but we had bacon. We didn't keep kosher. And we observed which today would be Conservative Jews. But in those days, we belonged to an Orthodox temple. So we made out we were Orthodox Jews, but we really weren't.

Don Rickles

The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible study.

Noah Feldman

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

James Nicoll

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

Ian Fleming

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

Peter Mayle

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

William Penn

I have been baptized twice- once in water...once in flame.

Joshua

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

Voltaire

The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

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