Top 100 For Now Quotes
#1. There is no happily ever after. There is just not miserable for now.
John Goode
#2. There is simply too much to be done for us all to go round 'enjoying ourselves.' When the world is perfect, then we can all sit down and eat jelly beans, but for now the fact that things are going well for you just means that you are in a position to alleviate someone else's suffering for a while.
Jon Richardson
#3. I am so pathetic with machines in real life, it's not a joke. I'd rather walk, or even run, than take the car out myself. I like to be driven around. Yes, I like fancy cars, and fancy bikes, too. It's my dream to learn how to ride one myself, but for now, I am content being driven around.
Bipasha Basu
#4. Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
William Shakespeare
#5. For now, they had simpler concerns. Keeping the children from the roofs at night, the bereaved from crying out too loud, the young in summer from falling in love with the human.
Clive Barker
#6. Frida. So after all, it is not for nothing that I was born a poet. For now she is going forth into the great wide world, that I once yearned so passionately to see. Little Frida sets out in a splendid covered sledge with silver bells on the harness -
Henrik Ibsen
#7. I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.
Augusten Burroughs
#8. No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.
Brandon Sanderson
#10. I could go on, but I've decided for now that three examples will suffice. Three examples if nothing else, will give you the ashen taste in your mouth that defined my existence during that year.
Markus Zusak
#11. So, what would you like to drink?"
"Aside from you?"
I laughed anxiously. "You can't drink me."
He leaned forward, his eyes running up and down my body, causing my skin to heat. "Yes, I believe I can. And I believe I will. But for now, I'll just have a Bombay and tonic.
Karina Halle
#12. I take his hand and pull him back to me, stealing another kiss, smiling against his lips as he kisses me back.
And kisses me again.
And then some more.
And I know he is mine. For now, for the rest of our lives, no matter what comes next.
Stacey Jay
#13. For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
Lech Walesa
#14. Beer is fine," I said.
"For now." Adam waited as I put in my order. "You'll need something stiffer after Mike really starts getting to you."
"Oh, he's getting to me," I said, as the bartender brought my beer. "Usually, I drink Sprite.
Diana Peterfreund
#15. I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.
Anthony Burgess
#16. We could double our chances by working for one of these candidates, not against the other. For now, I've figured out how to answer reporters when they ask if I'm supporting Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. I just say yes.
Gloria Steinem
#17. She'd worry about it later. For now, she had an appointment with a homicidal godlet.
Diana Pharaoh Francis
#18. Now was the time for now. Now was one of those rare and precious moments with which one was gifted from time to time. That was all it was. A moment. But it was one to be enjoyed to the full while it lasted and treasured for a lifetime after it was over.
Mary Balogh
#19. I'm learning in my own sort of quiet, out-of-the-spotlight kind of way. I certainly have my general point of view about the government, and the future of our children. I'm certainly learning all the time, I'm happy to be an onlooker for now.
Cathy Freeman
#20. I should have been sorry for her, at any other time; but for now if they had laid her and ten more ladies like her down upon the floor and told me my way out was across their backs, I'd have run it with clogs on.
Sarah Waters
#21. I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle.
Matt Sharp
#22. For now, let's just say that if your API is re-defining the HTTP verbs or if it is assigning new meanings to HTTP status codes or making up its own status codes, it is not RESTful.
George Reese
#23. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Anonymous
#24. I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.
John Green
#25. Betimes I will - to the weird sisters. (140) More shall they speak, for now I am bent to know, By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good, All causes shall give way. I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
William Shakespeare
#26. Those who can afford private schooling need not worry about their children being deprived of art, music and literature in the classroom: they are more sheltered, for now, from the doctrine of efficiency that has been radically refashioning the public school curriculum.
Azar Nafisi
#27. Life is brutally short, and there's only one go at it. We don't go for the old myths about helping somebody as we travel along life's path or our living will have been in vain. It's for now. Not tomorrow. But now.
Mick Norman
#28. I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient ... for now.
Toni Sorenson
#29. Women in love are pathetic
and I cannot be bothered, for now,
I am back to metaphysics
and my armpits gather hair.
Mie Hansson
#30. A simple life can make you happy, but taking a few risks along the way can also make it fun. This could all end badly, but for now, I'm going to enjoy it for what it is.
Lisa De Jong
#31. He feels himself falling. He wants to spend every minute with her, he wants to possess her, her purity, her body, her mind. She is what he has been waiting for. Now he can live.
Alan Lightman
#32. Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter.
Tupac Shakur
#33. She ran up the hill toward the woods. The moon watched her every step, bathing her in silver suspicion. She ignored it for now. The trees swallowed her up, hiding her
Edward W. Robertson
#34. For now, the tension was subtle, a vibration, like the inaudible cry of overstressed steel.
Erik Larson
#35. I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now.
be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.
-Tally Youngblood
Scott Westerfeld
#36. Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
Samantha Power
#37. Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.
Ben Marcus
#38. I crossed across the Ocean called Hate, to find the Sea of Love. But to my disappointment i found it nowhere. I cherish the moment of love i had before but too faded for now. Ages passed to find it again in my new Life.
Debolina
#39. When men start affording more rights to women, maybe we'll be nicer to the ones we don't like. But for now, I know that I myself am too busy trying to preserve my rights and faculties to take care of a man's fragile ego.
Leanna Renee Hieber
#40. I will make THIS worthwhile. I will make THIS enough until we can tackle more. THIS matters, whatever it is, and for now THIS is everything, okay?
Jay Crownover
#41. I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.
Prince William
#42. For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Wendell Willkie
#43. He's safe, I repeated to myself over and over again. But even I knew it wasn't the truth. For now he was safe, but they'd find him. Eventually they'd find him, they always do. I was supposed to protect him. I was supposed to keep him alive. Instead I'd brought him directly into the lion's pit.
Nicole Sobon
#44. Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted.
Deyth Banger
#45. For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.
Jewel
#46. I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
Malcolm X
#47. Keep his pants on or take them off? Better keep them on for now, or the whole massage pretense might vanish before it began.
Nina Croft
#48. But for now there was this, and it was enough, it was more than they could have hoped for: the two of them in their stone corner, their dark clothes bleeding into the dusk, lights being kindled across the city, and a few pale stars in the sky.
Sarah Waters
#49. The snake is captivated for now.
- Hafsa, The Valide Sultana.
P.J. Parker
#50. Next time I'll rip your dick off, she muttered, eyes narrowing. Okay, so round two was definitely out for now. Noted.
Joanna Wylde
#51. Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion.
Tom Upton
#52. Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#53. My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to write.
Sefi Atta
#54. So all I've got to wait for now is Snape to steal the Stone," Harry went on feverishly, "then Voldemort will be able to come and finish me off. ... Well, I suppose Bane'll be happy.
J.K. Rowling
#55. For now, the idea was enough. It was indestructible. Transforming it into reality, well, that was something else altogether. For now, though, let's let him enjoy it.
We'll give him seven months.
Then we come for him.
And oh, how we come.
Markus Zusak
#56. The Captain just gave us our orders, and Mom we must carry them through. I'll finish this letter first chance I get, but for now I'll just say I love you.
Merle Haggard
#57. Charming's a pain in the ass, but he finds trouble the way a hog roots out truffles. The best thing to do for now is let him loose and follow the trail of bodies." "It
Elliott James
#58. Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.
Kevin Sampson
#59. He knows me so well. I don't have to say it. Not any of it. Not yet. There will be time for it later. For now, it is enough. It is enough and it is easy. Easy to walk the last few steps between us. Easy and so beautiful to step into his arms.
He kisses me. He kisses me.
I kiss him back.
Joshilyn Jackson
#61. For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power
Wole Soyinka
#62. For now most of what exists in the universe will be seen and enjoyed only by me, like special canvasses in the back of an artist's studio, but one day ...
Wm. Paul Young
#63. With this life I give you love. Cherish your Clan as you cherished your kits, for now they all are your kin.
Erin Hunter
#64. Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff,
J.K. Rowling
#66. I'm not sure why we want each other," she grumbled.
"Nor am I, but the fact remains that we do want each other."
"Maybe I'm just shallow. You're quite pretty."
"For now, that will do."
Infuriating man. Couldn't take an insult the way she intended.
-Annabelle and Zacharel
Gena Showalter
#67. I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons. - Greg Heffley,
Jeff Kinney
#68. Love is dead; let lovers' eyes,
Locked in endless dreams,
The extremes of all extremes,
Ope no more, for now Love dies.
John Ford
#69. We've lost so much. We might lose more. But for now I can sit here, under the trees and sky, and pull music from the strings.
Emma Trevayne
#70. So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
Og Mandino
#71. Alone doesn't mean lonely. It just means alone. It just means that for now, you're on your own, and that's not a terrible thing.
Hemal Jhaveri
#72. For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.
Frank Herbert
#73. For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.
Barack Obama
#74. They were stranded on the opposite sides of death, at least for now, and that was all there was to it.
Mary Balogh
#75. For now, I'll let you plead temporary amnesia," he said and lifted my chin to him. "But I'm never going to forget what it felt like when you were biting my lip instead of your own.
Magan Vernon
#76. You were the best thing that ever happen to me. I hope that someday I can say you were one of the best, but for now, it's only you.
Penelope Ward
#77. In Heaven we'll understand why we've suffered on Earth. The Apostle Paul explained, For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known [of God] .
David Berg
#78. I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
Nate Parker
#79. Heil Hitler," he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, "Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon.
John Boyne
#80. For now there is only the darkness expanding and deepening, deepening into light; there is only this final peace, this consciousness of being no more separate, this illumination . . .
Aldous Huxley
#81. Hoop nodded. "Everything's good."
"For now," Ripley said. "Only for now. Nothing stays good for long. Not ever.
Tim Lebbon
#82. Do you want me, too?
Yes. And no.
I'll take that. For now.
Alex Adams
#83. I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true.
Francis Ford Coppola
#84. Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent.
James Coburn
#85. One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times ... He is beyond human forgiveness.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#86. For there clings to him something that often overwhelms us
memory, a recollection that whatever we're striving for now
was once closer and truer, and that its union with us was incredibly tender.
Here, everything is distance;
There, is was breath.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#87. Porn was something, it was a fill with lessons, full of them..., but for now it's empty so far and what I see I have already saw.
Deyth Banger
#88. Let me keep him ... even if I burn in hell later, just for now ... let me keep him.
Jewel E. Ann
#89. That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
Kate DiCamillo
#90. Funny, what a freeing thing right is. And how ... flexible it is. There is all sorts of right available to me now. Before, when I had to choose between Adam and James, I chose the hardest right path. It almost killed me. For now, I'm choosing the easiest right path.
Kiersten White
#91. Now I was standing at her bedroom door, leaning my cheek against the cold white wood of the paneling. I wanted to be with her, as close to her as I could get without having another heart attack. And if this was as near as she would let me get, it was enough for me, for now.
Kami Garcia
#92. There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to insist on meanings, and they are rarely even looked for now, except in cases involving the simplest, safest phenomena.
Donald Barthelme
#93. He places a hand on the curve of my hip. His touch is tender yet possessive. "That's good enough for now. And just so you know, I'm not letting you walk away from me this time. No dogs, no assholes, no appointments. Today you're mine." I
Mia Asher
#94. Steer clear of pot. It's an ambition zapper. Wait till you've made it. When you're 45 buy a bong. But for now, buy a suit.
Greg Gutfeld
#95. This is the currency of friendship, traded over years and miles, and I hope it's an even exchange someday. For now, I do what all best friends do when there's nothing left to say. We lie together in all the darkness, shoulder to shoulder, and wait for the worst to be over.
Emery Lord
#96. I try to stay in shape, I work out in the gym, take my vitamins every day, and I guess maybe I have some good genes, but lately I've been feeling it. You know, after all these years it does catch up with you. But just for now.
Regis Philbin
#97. Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.
Gabriela Mistral
#98. You have something you want to do. Something you like to do. Something you're good at. Why don't we start with that? Why don't you let that be the entire plan for now?
Laura Dave
#99. Write what you're thinking. Write one fucking word, and that will be good enough for now.
Pepper Winters
#100. Someday I'll write a textbook about personality profiling through possessions; but for now let's just say this example is screaming "megalomaniac!" at me.
Charles Stross
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