Top 100 Now I See Quotes
#1. I always wanted to be something, but now I see I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
#2. Quiet laughter fills the tunnel."Now I see why you're so attached to her, Bowen. you're gettin' sugar," Tommy says
Bethany Wiggins
#3. And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine
A being breathing thoughtful breath
A traveler betwixt life and death
The reason firm the temperate will
Endurance Foresight Strength and skill
William Wordsworth
#4. I can honestly say - not proudly, but honestly - before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother's eyes.
Marissa Jaret Winokur
#5. Dear Dad,
When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you're the one that raised me.
Alexandra Bracken
#6. I used to think you all were missionaries bringing the gospel to your neighborhood, but now I see that it is in your neighborhood that you have learned the gospel, and that you are actually missionaries to the church.
Shane Claiborne
#7. Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.
Walt Whitman
#8. Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other."
"So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.
Richelle Mead
#9. I used to think I saw honour in battles and accomplishments and medals. But now I see those are the honours of men, which are as dust. The honour of the heart is another matter entirely.
Marc Secchia
#10. Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.
Katrina Kenison
#11. For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights.
Stephen Kinzer
#12. All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner
#13. Now I see that if one doesn't know how to die, one can hardly know how to live - because death is a part of life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#14. Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints ... He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.
Peter Kreeft
#15. Jo turns towards me. Her voice is calm but now I see her eyes blaze in a holy hazel fire. She doesn't want to die, but she will, for what she believes in. I need new friends.
Eliza Crewe
#16. I see myself traveling; I see myself with a much bigger living space than I do have right now. I see myself hopefully on a tour bus at some point.
Kat Dahlia
#17. Now I see why everybody who plays for him doesn't like him.
Shaquille O'Neal
#18. Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.
Paul Schrader
#19. Kyndel continued. "By calling forth, I mean they can actually shift from man to dragon and back again. Now, I see you think I've been smoking something really good, or maybe I drank the Kool-aid, but I'm telling you the absolute truth. If
Julia Mills
#20. And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you And there isnt a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives Arent as bad as they seem but now i see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and its just a bad dream ...
Michael Grant
#21. But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
John Heywood
#22. The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself ... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
Fay Weldon
#23. Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Sophocles
#24. You know, I used to think you were snarling at me, but now I see that...it's actually just your face.
Suzanne Wright
#25. You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.
Faith Evans
#26. Amma and i went to each house to tell them we were leaving. They all said, 'Don't forget us. Keep visiting.' At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. i had grown up among them - how was it even possible to forget these people? Now I see what they meant.
Vivek Shanbhag
#27. Jake once said on stage that Jonny was the mighty in their storm, and now I see that Jake is my mighty storm. He's broken and complex, and no one knows him like I do, or ever will. He needs me. He's my storm to calm. And I'm going to spend the rest of my life doing just that.
Samantha Towle
#28. I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.
Clive Anderson
#29. I had the intention of becoming a theologian ... but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'
Johannes Kepler
#30. I thought this director gig was just one of those side roads we take at times on the journey to our true purpose. Now I see that in God's economy, nothing is wasted
Gay Idle
#31. Every day I searched for the star
That never was in the sky
Now I see that star is on the earth
Stevie Wonder
#32. All I know is that I was blind, but now I see; that though I kick and scream, love is leading me. And every step of the way His grace is making me. With every breath I breathe, He is saving me. And I believe.
Andrew Peterson
#33. There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It's like the song "Amazing Grace": I was blind and now I see.
Marianne Williamson
#34. 'Nothin' on You' changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was.
B.o.B
#35. Growth will be slower, no one denies that. But the question is: Where are the chances and opportunities now? I see some positive and some negative trends.
Zhang Xin
#36. I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see.
John Newton
#37. When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing. And it is amazing how things really get made. I always used to think that where there is smoke there is fire, and now I see stories pop up out of nowhere with no basis in reality.
Jon Favreau
#38. I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.
Alana Stewart
#39. Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.
Chanel Iman
#40. I grew up in a single-wide, three-bedroom mobile home with my family. And now I see them, like, half a dozen times a year. Figuring out how to come home and talk to them again and feel like myself has probably been the greatest challenge.
Brandi Carlile
#41. Every time I drift away I lose myself in you. And now I see I can be me in every thing I do.
Michelle Branch
#42. When i was a child , i thought ,
the moon was a banana,
the full moon was a big cake.
when i was a child ,
i never saw the moon;
i only saw what i wanted to see.
and now i see the moon.
it's only the moon. -sushil
Sushil Singh
#43. I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.
Kenny Loggins
#44. Now I see that night does something to a person's identity, even when asleep.
Djuna Barnes
#45. I never saw Death before, and now I see
That it is warring eyes in a woman's form.
Thiruvalluvar
#46. Now I see
we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.
David Henry Hwang
#47. Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.
Tim O'Brien
#48. Now I see why Georgie was totally cool with Vektal claiming her as his mate. If he's anything like Raahosh, he dicked the brains right out of her.
Ruby Dixon
#49. As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.
Virat Kohli
#51. Jamie cocked her head, looking at Greta curiously. "You know, I used to think you were snarling at me, but now I see that . . . it's actually your face.
Suzanne Wright
#53. I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.
Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. Ms. Heller," said the man, "if you can hear me, say something, will you?" "What do you want, I'm shouting!" Lauren said at the top of her voice. "Now I see it," one of the female voices said. "Like she's trying to talk. I don't know what she said." "I think she said 'Ow.
Joseph Finder
#55. And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now.
Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me.
Elizabeth Scott
#56. I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
Barbara Kingsolver
#57. In those long-ago days I saw a daughter with a disability. Now I see a beautiful, engaging person with a different ability, one that has blessed her with extra gifts and special perceptions.
Lee Woodruff
#58. I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.
Brian Andreas
#59. I am sensitive soul; I feel with the moon,
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see their all just hiding behind false truths.
Nikki Rowe
#60. I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert. A wasteland. I won't live in a wasteland. I'd rather die in paradise.
Lev Grossman
#61. Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.
Charlie Brooker
#62. At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. She nods. "We have five knives, two guns, and a big hole."
I look up into her innocent blue eyes and try not to smile. "Erm, okay."
"If you do anything bad, I will shoot you and put you in the hole."
Aah. Now I see why she was rattling off the inventory.
Beckie Stevenson
#64. It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.
Alex Rodriguez
#65. Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
John Milton
#66. It's like we get so set in our ways, so entrenched in those grooves, we stop seeing our loved ones for who they are. But tonight, right now, I see you again, like the first time we met, when the sound of your voice and your smell was this new country.
Blake Crouch
#67. I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
Myrtle Reed
#68. On my heart in beautiful calligraphy You've written words that only You and I can know. Their secret You promised to reveal one day but now I see You were only teasing.
Rumi
#69. Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman
#70. My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.
Rufus Sewell
#71. I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.
Lydia Lunch
#72. I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it now I see what a quorum is!
Elizabeth Gaskell
#73. Hmm," he said. "Like the world is big again. No. Not again. Like I only thought it had gotten small while I was inside, but now I see it was big the whole time, just waiting out there. Waiting for me to come back.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#74. I admired my father very much ... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
Delmore Schwartz
#75. And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.
Ayn Rand
#76. When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small.
My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.
Kim McMillen
#77. I had thought a good mother would not elicit such comments, but now I see that a good mother is required to somehow absorb all this ugliness and find a way to fall back in love with her child the next day.
Kelly Corrigan
#78. Amazing grace how sweet thuh sound That saved a wretch like me; I once was lost but now I'm found, Was blind, but now I see. A-men." Jem
Harper Lee
#79. Job interview question: Q: Where do you see yourself five years from now?A: Well, five years from now I see myself being able to answer this question.
Matthew Dickson
#80. We didn't know each other well. I never had the time. Now I see that it doesn't make any difference. The ones who hurry and the ones who take their time all end up in the same place. Just don't have any regrets. No regrets.
Stanislaw Lem
#81. I closed my eyes and saw the children playing their game again. 'The ease seemed so frightening.' I said. 'Now I see why.'
'What?'
'The ease. Us, the children ... I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery.
Octavia E. Butler
#82. But now I see there's no such thing as "a" woman, "one" woman. There are dozens inside every one of them. I probably should have figured this out sooner, but what child can see the women inside her mom, what with all the Motherness blocking out everything else?
Kelly Corrigan
#83. When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and hurtfulness of sin; and therefore now I will mourn, not because I am crossed, but because I have deserved this cross, and a worse too."
William Whately
#84. And sometimes when you lie to me Sometimes I'll lie to you And there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives Aren't as bad as they seem But now I see blood and I hear people scream Then I wake up And it's just another bad dream . . .
Michael Grant
#85. When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular and when U2 invited Benny and I on stage to sing Dancing Queen, I just assumed we were being sent up. But now I see they were paying tribute to us
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#86. The best-case scenario here is that you make friends with a boy who's going to die."
"Ah," said Calla, in a very, very knowing way. "Now I see."
"Don't psychoanalyse me," her mother said.
"I already have. And I say again, 'ah'.
Maggie Stiefvater
#87. Amazing grace! how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind but now i see.
John Newton
#88. The irony," he said," ... is that now that I'm this blind man, it's clearer to me now than it's ever been before. What that line? 'Was blind but now I see ...
Wally Lamb
#89. I thought I was going nowhere, but now I see there was a pattern.
Kate DiCamillo
#90. Separation on the River Kiang KO-JIN goes west from Ko-kaku-ro, The smoke-flowers are blurred over the river. His lone sail blots the far sky. And now I see only the river, The long Kiang, reaching heaven. Taking
Ezra Pound
#92. One of my daughters was a bit flat-chested, so she had implants and she's got a lovely pair now. I see nothing wrong with it.
Rod Stewart
#93. We're on our own. An I feel calm. It seems crazy ... but I'm calm. Because now I see what I gotta do. An what I ain't gotta do, which is waste time thinkin that anybody's gonna help us. That somebody's gonna come along an rescue us. I cain't count on nobody but me.
Moira Young
#94. I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.
Adam Sandler
#95. As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.
Ahmet Davutoglu
#96. For a moment i thought i had died and gone to heaven. Now i see that i am very much alive, and heaven has been brought to me
Shannon Dermott
#97. No, you listen! All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!
Salvatore Quasimodo
#98. Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all comes down to two minds crying out from their solitude.
Roger Ebert
#99. It took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me ...
John Geddes
#100. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel.
Bruce Lee
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