Top 100 Now Was Quotes
#1. For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between them, and no pride; whatever happened to him would happen to her too, all feeling, all movement, all sensation of body and of mind.
Daphne Du Maurier
#2. Life, Teresa knew by now, was a series of losses. It was other things too, better things, but the losses were as solid and dependable as the earth itself.
Ann Patchett
#3. Question that remained now was whether he would be alive to perform the day's final salaat. That was in Allah's
Tom Clancy
#4. In the course of nearly a century of gusty living he had been broke many times, had several times been wealthier than he now was; he regarded both conditions as he did shifts in the weather, and never counted his change.
Robert A. Heinlein
#5. She stared at the featureless iron and felt more keenly than ever the distance between them. Now. Now was the time to say what might be the last words he would ever hear from her.
"Fight," she said at last. "Win.
Suzannah Rowntree
#6. Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.
Walter De La Mare
#7. Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want that adjective assigned to my name for all of eternity. You know, gay Rosie O'Donnell.
Rosie O'Donnell
#8. Aunt Agatha's demeanor now was rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.
P.G. Wodehouse
#9. Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
Walter Raleigh
#10. Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.
Esther Meynell
#11. Darlin', I'm settling. What you didn't know, what I was keepin' back 'til the right time, that time bein' now, was, I'm doin' it with you.
Kristen Ashley
#12. Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
Joshua Slocum
#13. He had found his monsters, and now was the time to leave them behind.
Tim Lebbon
#14. Talking to her now was like flailing his hands at a storm of hornets. It did nothing, and it stung, and yet he couldn't stop himself.
Joe Hill
#15. If anything, the spirit that drove him now was fiercer, but there was no denying the diminishing powers of his body. He
Donna Leon
#16. No matter what they said, I was alive. I had to be. At least in part. Because that once clear though screaming through me right now was: I don't want to die.
Debra Driza
#17. Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#18. It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. ( ... ) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.
David Millar
#19. Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad.
Macy page 199
Sarah Dessen
#20. What they had right now was not what she wanted. And if the rules of the game were always going to stay this way, she just didn't know if she even wanted to play.
Lauren Kate
#21. Despite all the other factors that had contributed to my fate, in the end it was my decision that destroyed my life. And all the hurt I was enduring now was my doing. The blame rested solely with me.
Brodi Ashton
#22. She smiles when she sees me. That's it. All she did just now was smile, but all of a sudden, my chest is on fire, and it feels as if a wave of heat just rolled down the entire length of my body. I recognize this feeling, and it's not good.
Colleen Hoover
#23. Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.
Martin Milner
#24. I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.
Sarah Dessen
#25. He pondered his turmoil, wondering which he feared most - losing his father or being alone in the world. Both were inevitable. Neither could be stopped or slowed down. All he could do now was brace for impact.
Brent Jones
#26. His only thought now was the question in what way he could best, with most propriety and comfort for himself, and consequently, with most justice, shake off the mud with which she had splattered him in her fall, and then proceed along his path of active, honourable, and useful existence.
Leo Tolstoy
#27. He still looked so sad. Not a sign of the laughter that once used to be as much a part of his face as his black eyes. The smile he gave her now was only a sad shadow of it.
Cornelia Funke
#28. It seems sometimes that we get so caught up in missing the past, or looking forward to the future, that we forget that this, right here and now, was once the days we longed for and will soon be the ones we miss.
John A. Ashley
#29. Now was not the time to quit and mourn. Now was the time for prayer and action.
Todd Burpo
#30. My apologies. To kiss you now was inappropriate. But gladly, I would kiss you again.
Ashlan Thomas
#31. Talk to strangers politely ... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. He wouldn't take anything from her ever again. But from this point on, he'd give her whatever she wanted. Which was easy, because what she wanted right now was an orgasm.
Larissa Ione
#33. What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection.
H.G.Wells
#34. Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was great to see, and it hurt like hell.
Anne Lamott
#35. Now was the time to get everything back on track, to figure out who I was and what I wanted to do with the rest of my life before I got all distracted by a soul mate with a bod for sin.
Madelyn Alt
#36. The message had been delivered. All they could do now was wait. Valden hated waiting.
Nicole Sager
#37. He took another quick swallow of the coffee. Tasted awful to him, though it was good coffee, he'd brewed it himself. A beer was what he wanted. Not to have a beer right now was like not breathing. But it was just too great a risk.
Anne Rice
#38. Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk.
Neil Gaiman
#39. Now was not the time to get ensnared in something new and complicated, and he didn't really have the energy for a one-night hookup which, he knew, had a funny way of becoming as exhausting as something longer-term.
Hanya Yanagihara
#40. Only now was it starting to make sense why Lady Macbeth could never scrub the blood off her hands, why it was still there after she washed it away.
Donna Tartt
#41. 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
#42. Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts.
Ilona Andrews
#43. Because she had done the best she could for many years back and the way they were together now was no one person's fault.
Ernest Hemingway,
#44. What is reason now was passion heretofore.
Ovid
#45. Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation.
"Black bear," he repeated. "It's undoubtedly because I'm so terrible in battle."
"I'd guess so," Will put in. "I've seen you in battle and you're definitely terrible.
John Flanagan
#46. For the past eight or so months their pack had been dealing with one issue after another from violent anti-paranormal maniacs to crazy vampires. It was nice that the only thing they had on their plate now was a bet for how soon two of their packmates would finally get together.
Katie Reus
#47. The question now was ... whether that beautiful fabric [the English constitution] ... was to be maintained in that freedom ... for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country.
Charles James Fox
#48. Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward virtue, morality, uprightness, order: call it what one liked. A long ever-recurring battle.
Dick Francis
#49. They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not; what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#50. For any thing so overdone is
from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the
first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the
mirror up to nature;
William Shakespeare
#51. Now was not the time to be sentimental. As a child, she'd been ridiculously sentimental about loss, about time passing.
Maryanne O'Hara
#52. I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound, as if a vessel filled with liquid had been placed on its side and now was slowly emptying out.
Jamaica Kincaid
#53. And now was one to believe that there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whom this hog personality was precious, to whom these hog squeals and agonies had a meaning?
Upton Sinclair
#54. The pendulum had swung too far, as always, and now was swinging back, and the horror of intolerance had been loosed upon the land.
Clifford D. Simak
#55. now. The freedom he had now was intoxicating, even though he had had but a taste, a glance at what it was really like, the entire sensation of it all made him light headed. He was something he had never thought he'd be. Freedom was a fairy
Chandler Duke
#56. All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone.
Lauren Myracle
#57. What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.
Ursula Hegi
#58. My problem now was that no one was will- ing to look deep enough to see the real me that lay dormant beneath the surface. Everyone thought I was a trouble maker, the bad boy, the punk.
I wasn't. I was just broken. - Chase
Lacey Weatherford
#59. Not separate in this place where I now was. I could hear the visual beauty of the silvery bodies of those scintillating beings above, and I could see the surging, joyful perfection of what they sang.
Eben Alexander
#60. Ivan took his tea gratefully but Philippe watched dispassionately as he took a long sip from it, as though he did not think that now was the moment for drinking tea.
William Axtell
#61. If his choice now was to risk either sunshine with a chance of rain or heatstroke with a chance of tornado, he'd go with the sunshine.
Meredith Marple
#62. The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance.
Kenneth Noland
#63. Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible.
Molly Ringle
#64. 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
#65. I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity ... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.
Beverly Sills
#67. I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.
Bill O'Reilly
#68. I just want you as you are. Broken. Misunderstood. Jerk. I want the real version, the dark version, the one who made me the saddest I've ever been in my life, but also the happiest." Now was
L.J. Shen
#69. I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one's innermost thoughts to life?
Chingiz Aitmatov
#70. He had never been particularly young, or to put it another way, he had been young for a long time and now was at his true age, old enough for civilized comfrots and not too old for the primal ones.
James Salter
#71. But lots of people do parody now. The whole mash-up thing that's so prevalent now was starting in the 80's when I was starting to think about this stuff. I certainly wasn't the first person to do it but now ... comics mash-ups, all kinds of mash-ups are everywhere.
Robert Sikoryak
#72. It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
Richard Bach
#73. Now was a time not to anger, but for survival. I would survive. I knew that was all I could do.
Betsy Cornwell
#74. If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.
Jack Canfield
#75. Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
Mary Balogh
#76. Paul took a place in the line behind Chani. He had put down the black feeling at being caught by the girl. In his mind now was the memory called up by his mother's barked reminder: "My son's been tested with the gom jabbar!" He found that his hand tingled with remembered pain.
Frank Herbert
#77. So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.
Neal Shusterman
#78. All he wanted to do now was to get up quietly and undisturbed, get dressed, and, most important, eat breakfast, and only then consider what to do next, because, as he was well aware, in bed he could never think of anything through to a reasonable conclusion.
Franz Kafka
#79. I was just thinking now was as good a time as any to acknowledge that you're perfect and it wouldn't suck if you fell madly in love with me anytime soon. - TRENT
Jamie McGuire
#80. What he would tell her instead, he hadn't yet decided, but now was not the time to think about such things. Now was the time to sit with his little family of two people, and cry.
J. Ryan Stradal
#81. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.
Edgar Allan Poe
#82. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting.
George Orwell
#83. Glass is sand and sand is glass!
The ant dancing blind as blind ants do
on the lip of the rim and the rim of the lip.
White in the night and grey in the day-
smiling spider she never smiles but smile she does
though the ant never sees, blind as it is-
and now was!
Steven Erikson
#84. The one thing that astonished him now was that he should have stood for five minutes arguing with her across the width of the room, when just touching her made everything so simple.
Edith Wharton
#85. All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter
expectation was such an innovative concept to him that he couldn't help but be a bit moved by what they were saying. Whatever that was.
Colson Whitehead
#86. The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.
Karen White
#87. He still had the problem with getting the album finished. Now was definitely not the time to be messing around with a reporter or a woman. And now he had both those things rolled into one glorious package. He just hoped he survived them both.
Samantha Chase
#88. I had to let go first. Trying to control the timing and outcome was a terrible waste of energy. My intentions were already out there and I had taken what action I could. My only job now was to get out of the way.
Bronnie Ware
#89. We'd been given a gift and our job now was to unwrap it ... and see what's inside.
Todd Burpo
#90. Love, I saw now, was an exterior spiritual force that swept through our bodies in the symbolic forms of eros, then bound us materially, skin and bone, in the symbolic moment of birth.
Andrew Klavan
#91. He had risen from the core of the earth but now was at the core of it all. He was with God.
Soroosh Shahrivar
#92. My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
Barbara Corcoran
#93. Every Halloween I missed being a kid, getting to dress up and eat tons of candy. The only thing I got to do now was ... eat tones of Candy. Not half bad
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#94. Between the way things used to be and the way they were now was a void that couldn't be crossed.
William Maxwell
#95. Whatever happened behind now was simply that: behind. Lyra had left it. She felt she was leaving the world altogether, so remote and intent she was, so high they were climbing, so strange and uncanny was the light that bathed them.
Philip Pullman
#96. Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.
Russell Kirk
#97. All she wanted now was to eat her leftover pasta and curl up with a good book. She needed to escape to a different world because she wasn't overly fond of the one she was living in now.
Lily Harper Hart
#98. She was so beautiful when she smiled, but now was not the time to tell her so.
Melanie Dickerson
#99. Gone now was the tease. Gone was the lesson on the how's and why's. Now came the need ... The need to finish, the need to come, and the need to be part of the other person.
Ella Frank
#100. She'd barely survived him the first time. Playing emotional roulette with him now was dangerous. Even if it felt damn good to be in his arms again.
Catherine Bybee
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