Top 100 Now Not Quotes
#1. I know how precious life is. You had no right to take Renaud's and you have no right to take your own now. Not over this. Too much death. It needs to stop.
Louise Penny
#2. I am confident - very confident - that if I help solve this problem in a way that we won't have 20 million illegal immigrants 20 years from now, not only will I get re-elected, I can look back and say I was involved in something that was important.
Lindsey Graham
#3. It disguises itself as motor vehicle knowledge, but really it's physics, which any other time would be fascinating but not right now, not while you're trying to learn to drive.
Polly Horvath
#4. I was never one to pull a band aid off slowly. Besides, we could be struck by lightning right now and I don't think I'd feel it or care. I want you inside me, Jack. Now. Not slowly, but like right now.
Natasha Boyd
#5. The massive debt we have racked up to finance our wasteful government is pulling down growth today. Gross debt over 90 percent of GDP weakens growth now. Not tomorrow - now.
Jeff Sessions
#6. Arthur had almost given up. That is to say, he was not going to give up. He was absolutely not going to give up. Not now. Not ever. But if he had been the sort of person who was going to give up, this was probably the time he would have done it.
Douglas Adams
#7. Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him.
Charles Bradlaugh
#8. No. There is no getting away from the word nigger, not now, not in the world we've been given to live in, you and me. Country
Stephen King
#9. I see my future
now not as something
intangible like a dream,
but like a boat
meeting land
after time spent at sea,
a destination I will reach.
Stephanie Hemphill
#10. I sleep with the lights on now. Not because I'm afraid of the dark, but because I like to keep the night as far away as I can.
Keith Kekic
#11. Gratitude for every day along the way is the key to acknowledging and enjoying happiness now. Not when the results come in or when you retire, or when this or that happens.
Bronnie Ware
#12. Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.
Gary Johnson
#13. I looked at myself in the mirror and realized I wasn't bitter about that, not like I thought I'd be. I'd miss it, but it was just a piece of who I was now, not everything I was. (p.141)
Kiera Cass
#14. I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.
Frank Zappa
#15. Eumenes had been with her more than 400 years, Lollia nearly as long. Until now not one of her transformations had failed to last 200 years. Was she getting worse at it, or was the strength of the human stock in decline?
Whitley Strieber
#16. I will do whatever is necessary to protect you and her. Last night only muted my hunger for you to a hum. I'm not ready to let you go. Not now, not ever.
Lia Davis
#17. My fingers lightly trace her arm and I swear she presses closer to me. I'd love to kiss her right now. Not the type of kiss that makes her body come alive. The type of kiss that shows her how much I care - the type that involves my soul.
Katie McGarry
#19. When you call me a sexy bitch? I like that. If you're just going to call me a bitch, prepare to fight. I'm not going to let another man run over me. Not now. Not ever." Damn.
Scott Hildreth
#20. No can mean: not right now, not through this person, not this way, not through here. It does not mean: never, no other way, you don't deserve it, you're unworthy, it's not gonna happen.
Emily Maroutian
#21. Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous
readers.) But it was all too much - too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps
too much ice cream ...
James Patterson
#22. I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.
Kami Garcia
#23. I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.
Joyce Maynard
#24. It's never too late - not now, not ever - for you to pursue your passion.
Debbi Fields
#25. Christopher's heart bled that night and he could not sleep. Deborah who used to call him numerous times in a day and send countless messages was now not answering his calls. And she never called him.
Ayibu Makolo
#26. One of the things I've found now, not just for television, but in the restaurant, is that you have many anxious chefs, who know how to cook twenty recipes really well, but they don't have a good foundation for other things.
Wolfgang Puck
#27. It's as if the whole house is missing Granny now. Not the people living in it, but the actual building.
Fredrik Backman
#28. Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#29. Christ already made full provision for the abundant life through His atonement. It's now not up to Him to do, but you to receive what He's done!
Andrew Wommack
#31. Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
Robert Teeter
#32. I think in my earlier albums I lived in my head a lot more. The issues I dealt with were all personal, depression or how I would react to certain situations. Now, not feeling too depressed that much anymore, I think about other things. I turn my thoughts outward now.
Happy Rhodes
#33. The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
Joshua Chamberlain
#34. I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
Michelle Obama
#35. If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.
Pema Chodron
#36. You are the reason my heart beats. Your love is my lifeline, and I'm not about to give it up - not now - not ever!
Emily Rose Philips
#37. Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them ... the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives.
Billy Graham
#38. I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line.
Sabirul Islam
#39. I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors.
Melissa Leo
#40. Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later. Do what you want to do, and with the people you love. Learn to appreciate time and make doing so a habit. And if you want to do nothing, then enjoy doing it well. Why do anything by half? Why live a life diluted? What's the use?
Carew Papritz
#41. This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.
Martin Luther
#42. He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view
Marcus Sakey
#43. Look," she said. "You're right. You deserve an explanation. I think it's okay to tell you everything now - not that we know too much of the why.
James Dashner
#44. 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
#45. I don't want to let you go. Not now. Not ever." While she said this, tears streamed out of her eyes. "I'm here with you. Always," he murmured softly against her hair. "I love you, Ahmar. I love you so much," she whispered.
Sara Naveed
#46. I want to talk to you," she said, "for hours and days and forever, but we can't right now. Not here, and not while we're still in danger.
Dan Wells
#47. Novels hadn't interested her for a long time now: not for a moment could she tear her mind away from her own life and concentrate on somebody else.
Lydia Chukovskaya
#48. Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
Henry Rollins
#49. Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.
Will.i.am
#50. And I knew that my only way through this mass of simultaneous future outcomes was to hold tight to the idea that it was possible to get to OK from where we were now. Not assured. Just possible.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#51. Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.
Jane Smiley
#52. I think we need to leave now," Holden said, fear making the words come fast. "Like now now. Not later now.
James S.A. Corey
#53. that piece of herself. Not now, not ever.
Sarah Price
#54. All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW ... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire ... but NOW.
Susan Jeffers
#55. America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and blue facts. The right-wing believe in creationism. The left in evolution.
John Sayles
#56. something good will come out of that disgrace, pain, hopelessness, troubles and cries. It's happening right now. Not tomorrow.
Paul Gitwaza
#57. You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.
Rajneesh
#58. I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place I can read without straining my neck, and I take an afternoon nap, which is my reward for making enough money from my writing now not to have to work. I never get up in the morning before 11.30.
Martin Millar
#59. We should have learned by now not to be surprised by kittypets.
Graystripe
Erin Hunter
#60. Wanderlust. These are words that I associate with him now. Not genius. Not gifted. Extraordinary in any way.
Abigail George
#61. Their voices have doubled in strength now, not faded with time. Their chatter plays with my thoughts no end. And I am sustained by this, it gives me spark.
Sonali Deraniyagala
#62. What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.
John Updike
#63. The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.
Marie Kondo
#64. It was Brian's blood, and for some reason I knew it was pure. No other man I'd held in my arms -and now, not even I- had blood this pure.
Scott Heim
#65. We do not kiss. We do nothing but hold on and breathe, but still I know. I cannot go gently now. Not even for the sake of my parents, my family.
Not even for Xander.
Ally Condie
#66. And yet, it gives Peter nothing. Not now. Not today. Not when he needs ... more. More than this well-executed idea. More than the shark in the tank meant to frighten, more than the guy on the street meant to say something pithy about celebrity. More than this.
Michael Cunningham
#67. You can only know how you feel in the here and now, not how you'll feel years, months or even days down the line.
Kamila Shamsie
#68. Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we're talking now, not factuality but possibility.
Hal Duncan
#69. Would an evil man show this much concern for me when I'm upset? Stand up for me? Rescue me in the middle of a concert? That's who you are now. Not the man who almost killed Colin Westwood. But one who's sorry for what he did and wants to move on with his life.
Jessica Lauryn
#70. No matter how cultured or ancient the civilization, no average American is going to condone the absence of flush toilets. Not now, not ever.
T.R. Fehrenbach
#71. You are a human being now, not like them [the animals].
Herbert Mason
#72. I've lost many of my best friends ... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
Elia Kazan
#73. Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of society. Let free enterprise fight back now, not for itself, but for all those who believe in freedom.
Margaret Thatcher
#74. Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
Elliott Carter
#75. I think a lot of people are really scared right now. Not every person makes good choices, and sometimes, when people are scared, there are people who try to take advantage of that fear.
Ezekiel Boone
#76. Careful, even now, not to thank the wights, she added, You have all been most kind.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#77. Lori's biggest quest in life was to find Mr. Right Now, not to be confused with Mr. Right.
Lindsay Chamberlin
#78. Ain't no way I'm letting her out of this now. Not after that confession. It was as epic as the fucking storm and ten times as unexpected.
C.M. Stunich
#79. He's ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#80. If I were a real Creek View girl, the kind Josh liked, I'd be hammered right now, not thinking about my dead father.
Heather Demetrios
#81. It is not memories but the person we have become because of those past experiences that we should treasure. This is the lesson these keepsakes teach us when we sort them. The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not the person we were in the past. P.118
Marie Kondo
#82. I don't know how to make you better. I wish I did, but please stay with me. I need you, and I can't lose you. Not now. Not ever.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#83. She felt no relief at having survived this attack. No heady satisfaction surged through her because she'd made it to shore. She felt only a growing emptiness. A gathering dark. For this was her life now. Not boredom and lectures, but hell-flames and assassins. Massacres and endless flight.
Susan Dennard
#84. Now, not every blog post or 'Top 10 Ways to Make Money on the Internet' piece deserves to live forever. But there's gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#85. Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
Barbara Walters
#86. The boy became a man and left home and became a dying figure on a cross. I want to be able to imagine that what happened to him will not come, it will see us and decide - not now, not them. And we will be left in peace to grow old.
Colm Toibin
#87. Keep it simple, and focus on what you have to do right now, not on playing with your system or your tools.
Leo Babauta
#88. And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?
Og Mandino
#89. No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.
Gore Vidal
#90. Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.
Stacy London
#91. We want to move along and make sure, both internally and externally, that people realize how the company is being run, and it's being run by a group of people now, not just me.
Richard Kinder
#92. I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#93. When I came here as a child, he would always remove the bullets as soon as he walked in the door. I guess he considered me old enough now not to shoot myself by accident, and not depressed enough to shoot myself on purpose.
Stephenie Meyer
#94. The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life
is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.
Vimala Thakar
#95. But the Modern Utopia must not be static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and overcome the great stream of things, but rather float upon it. We build now not citadels, but ships of state.
H.G.Wells
#96. Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.
Brene Brown
#97. You develop relationships with people, and suddenly a family of actors and crew that you became so close to are now not around anymore. I'm not too sad about it because I got to move on to something else, but it's sad the way these things turn out.
Mark Pellegrino
#98. Everybody changes. I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I've done in the past has made me what I am now. Not everyone is going to like what I do, but I look back at everything, and it makes me smile.
Victoria Beckham
#99. I wasn't ready for goodbye, not now, not yet. Stay with me tonight, please don't go just yet.
Anya
#100. I grew up in a town with no movie theater. TV was my only link to the outside world. Film wasn't such a big deal to me. It was TV. So much so, that when I meet TV stars now ... Not my co-workers, but real TV stars, I get nervous. I freak out around them.
DJ Qualls
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