Top 100 I Know Now Quotes
#1. I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.
Joan Rivers
#2. I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
Jeanette Winterson
#3. I think I know now why it is called the Kangaroo Suite. It's because even when you no longer have a child, you carry him forever. It
Jodi Picoult
#4. I know now that I want to do more voice-over projects. They really have the ability to transport you into the world of whatever movie it is you are working on.
Bridgit Mendler
#5. Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.
Anna Lee
#6. I know now that truth is a troubling thing. You can't drink your way to it. You can't snort your way to it. You can't fuck your way to it. You can't love your way to it. You can only let it envelop you and try to make sense of it all.
Nick Miller
#7. I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.
Claudette Colvin
#8. If I knew then what I know now, I would still be dreaming BIG today.
Tim Storey
#9. Love is like a fart. It's warm, unpredictable. And sometimes it stinks, but it can also be the best feeling in the world. That's why I'm so happy that I passed you that day. I know now ... I fart you
Ryan Higa
#10. I know now that the most genuine happiness is kept afloat by an underlying sorrow.
Sere Prince Halverson
#11. I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.
Jenny Han
#12. Neither words can bring you back... I know now,as I have tried
Not the tears... I know now, as I have cried
Kiran Joshi
#13. I know now that this isn't true love or perfection or happily ever after. It's not even meant to be. This is a broken condom at the end of a drunken night. This is a generational walk of shame with two hundred spectators
Christina Meredith
#14. What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this was going to happen and I didn't know that Germany was going to lose the war and be in ruins.
Oswald Pohl
#15. I wanted to be a farmer's wife. I thought it would be quite fun to wake up of a morning, collect eggs and have sheep and pigs as pets. I know now that it would also involve having to sleep with the farmer, but at the time I wasn't thinking about the sexual implications - I was 11.
Miranda Hart
#16. I know now that I don't want to love or be loved in half measures. I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all.
Jenny Han
#17. I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.
Neil Gaiman
#18. When people say "If I only knew then what I know now" makes me wonder why they aren't using that wisdom now.
Rob Liano
#19. I wanted, of course, for this bittersweet season to be over. I felt so strongly that when I finished the book, I'd be free to move into another season, one of life and celebration. But this is what I know now: they're the same thing, and that's all there is.
Shauna Niequist
#20. If I knew exactly what I know now and had it to do over, I'd be a switch hitter. No telling what I could have done.
Hank Aaron
#21. I don't want him to stop. I want to be his. I want to be his everything. I want him to take me, and make me, and use me, and abuse me, because he thinks he has control and I know now that's what he craves.
J.M. Darhower
#22. I thought that you could not make a commitment until you were truly in love. What I know now is that you cannot love truly until you have made a commitment.
Kate Kerrigan
#23. I used to see dolphins as cute,
Smart and funny sea animals.
I know now that they're astute,
Divine beings, clever mammals.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#24. I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, not what should be, not what ought to be, not what once was.
Only the is.
Augusten Burroughs
#25. Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.
Ansel Adams
#26. And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now.
Lauren Oliver
#27. At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn, sweet song. (I know now that it was Beethoven's Romance in F.) I listened, and suddenly it was as if the fog that surrounded me had been penetrated, as if I were being spoken to.
Jennifer Paynter
#28. As with many things in life-what we know at 30we wish we knew at 20-what we know at 40we wish we knew at 25and so on. 'If I knew then, what I know now' is the old adage that has been said for generations.
Kim Mitchell
#29. Yes, but when I go out, I let my light shine. Unlike you, who has yet to actually turn your light on. At least I know now there's a bulb in there.
Kristen Painter
#30. I know now that no one can "steal" boyfriends against their will, not even Angelina Jolie itself.
Tina Fey
#31. Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.
Stephen Fry
#32. I know now that hurting people hurt people Living With Max
Chloe Maxwell
#33. Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now ...
Belle Whittington
#34. The only thing I know now is that we're all connected, everyone of us, even people we don't know.
Lee Martin
#35. I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.
Lana Del Rey
#36. We just hold each other. Where I was once lost, he's found me. But I know now that I have only begun to truly discover Chris. He's still lost.
Lisa Renee Jones
#37. I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.
C.S. Lewis
#38. I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
Malala Yousafzai
#39. I know now that there is something dead inside me though I cannot remember exactly when it died.
Claire North
#40. I know now one thing only matters in these days ... true love ... love and love alone.
James Taylor
#41. I know now it doesn't matter how well I say grace
if I am sitting at a table where I am offering no bread to eat
Andrea Gibson
#42. But I know now that if you just wake up every single day ready to do battle- ready to fight for what you have- then you have a real chance to hold onto it.
A. Zavarelli
#43. I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects
not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
Therese De Lisieux
#44. I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me
Susan Smith
#45. And I knew then, as I know now, that I still have so much to do.
Stevie Nicks
#46. I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a
woman to do that kind of work.
Harper Lee
#47. I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.
Sonia Sotomayor
#48. Everything I know now ... the pitfalls, the highs and lows, everything ... it taught me and made stronger.
Ray Allen
#49. And I know now that all the time I was trying to get
out of the dust,
the fact is,
what I am,
I am because of the dust.
And what I am is good enough.
Even for me.
Karen Hesse
#50. Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.
Kij Johnson
#51. As much as I had wanted a love story out of a movie, I know now that movies can only hope to to capture this kind of love.
Nina LaCour
#52. I know now who I am, what I have been hiding from my entire life, and why I am the way I am. I know I am not broken, and that there's nothing wrong with me.
Scott Hildreth
#53. I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.
Brian Friel
#54. The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
Dan Simmons
#55. The best Paris I know now is in my head.
Alan Furst
#56. I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.
Kristin Hannah
#58. If you offered me the chance to do it all over, knowing what I know now, after the things I've seen ... I'd shoot you in the head. That ain't the kind of thing you ask a lady. - Frances Brown
Seanan McGuire
#59. Claire, I'm sorry. I know now that I did everything wrong with you. By loving you so much, I turned into everything you'd ever feared. I wanted to take all your pain away, and instead I only gave you more. I drove you away and I know you will never trust me. You will always think that I'm like him.
Sydney Landon
#60. How someone wants to explain catastrophe isn't important--that's what I know now. When shit happens, it doesn't really matter what asshole is responsible.
Catherine Lacey
#61. I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.
Shehan Karunatilaka
#62. I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.
Ronald Reagan
#63. I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
Jimmy Carter
#64. What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.
Stephen King
#65. Did you tell anyone?"
"No. Neither did I tell anyone about the time you broke into the chancellor's office and used a three-century-old marble bust to open the door."
"How did you know that?"
"I know now.
Jonathan Renshaw
#66. Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it ... Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late. I know now that I loved him more than anything on earth or off of it.
Peter Heller
#67. I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .
Nikos Kazantzakis
#68. I know now, just quite how
My life and love might still go on
In your heart, in your mind
I'll stay with you for all of time.
The Calling
#69. I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.
Peter Benchley
#70. I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.
Ma Jian
#71. I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.
Mary Balogh
#72. There was no sound but that of his shoes and the now senseless singing of birds. Once I thought they sang because everything was right with the world, Robert Neville thought. I know now I was wrong. They sing because they're feeble minded.
Richard Matheson
#73. I know now that people only seem to live when they care only for themselves, and that it is by love for others that they really live. He who has Love has God in him, and is in God - - because God is Love.
Leo Tolstoy
#74. You know its more than that. I know now that it was right that I didn't find my queen all these years. Waiting for you was worth everything that I thought I couldn't endure.
Melissa Marr
#75. You are everything good in my life. Even when I thought all I had was the darkness, you were there. And you gave me something to live for. I couldn't let you go. No matter how hard I tried. I know now that's because to lose you would be losing the very best part of myself.
A Meredith Walters
#76. I know now that the universe hears everything you ask of it. And oftentimes what you will is what you manifest. But it only takes requests in the order they are received, and it doesn't always give you what you want, though you do get a version of exactly what you ask for.
Mark "Fightshark" Miller
#77. I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.
John Steinbeck
#78. I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.
Jillian Michaels
#79. I didn't realize it at the time. I really didn't even think about it, until you. I couldn't figure out why you were so different to me.I know now that it's not right ... But it was something. It made me feel less ... lonely.
S.C. Stephens
#80. I know now, what I didn't then, that affection can't always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.
Magda Szabo
#81. I think if I had known then what I know now, I would have been a lot more relaxed. I'm really happy with the result and I think Bjorn helped me take it in directions I couldn't have taken it in myself. It is a scary thing to be putting it in other people's hands, but it's really necessary sometimes.
Sarah Blasko
#82. Grief has a colour. It has other characteristics, I know now, collectively forming a personality of sorts. An antagonizing figure that arrives in your life and refuses to leave or sit anywhere but next to you or stop whispering the name of the departed in your ear.
Andrew Pyper
#83. I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller country.
Bill Maher
#84. I know now why God gave us babies. They require constant attention, of course. They make messes and disturb the peace, but their cuteness and smiles are something the only reminder of God we have in the house.
Ann Rinaldi
#85. I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.
Gail Caldwell
#86. Sometimes you may think you're doing the right thing, but it turns out to be the wrong thing. And you just have to live with it. If I'd known what I know now when I was young, I could have done a lot more right, but I didn't. That's the way life is: you figure it out right before you die.
K. Martin Beckner
#87. Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is being truthful, the greater pain is that of the offender. I know now that I would much rather be a victim of violence than a perpetrator
Frank Delaney
#88. 19. All possibilities I will attempt
And as I am here now,
Knowing what I know now,
I have faith in myself
That I will succeed
And I will succeed.
And I will succeed.
Priscilla Koranteng
#89. I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
Paris Hilton
#90. In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.
Scarlett Thomas
#91. If you have ever come up against Nothing you have no idea how it can scare you out of your wits. When I was a child I used to be afraid of Something in the dark. I know now that the most fearful thing about the dark is that we may find Nothing in it.
Howard Spring
#92. I know now, from experience, that the path to joy winds through this dark valley. I think every well-adjusted human being has dealt squarely with his or her own depravity.
Donald Miller
#93. Tristan would egg me on to trash-talk the little blondie who had "stolen" my boyfriend. Of course I know now that no one can "steal" boyfriends against their will, not even Angelina Jolie itself. But I was filled with a poisonous, pointless teenage jealousy,
James T. Fey
#94. I know now that I have to speak from eternity into time, from the lasting joy into the passing realities of our short existence in this world, from the house of love into the houses of fear, from God's abode into the dwellings of human beings. I
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#95. The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses the heartbreak within. A deal that seems to be the price we pay for getting to hold on to our beloved dead.
Gail Caldwell
#96. I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, insanely, and without recourse
Khaled Hosseini
#97. There were days when I felt that a dragon slept inside me, and exhaled poison with every breath. I flirted with suicide more times than I can count. But I know now why I never did it. I was saving that day for you.
Michelle Hodkin
#98. I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track.
Evelyn Ashford
#99. But I know now that you can't expect anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, it's because he wants to. And it's never because it's what he's supposed to do.
- Pete Cassidy
Cynthia Rylant
#100. They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
Lord Byron
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