Top 100 Quotes About Now
#1. There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.
Sharon Salzberg
#2. Girls, now, they wear leggings. As pants. It's embarrassing. Just parading their coochies around town.
Stephanie Danler
#3. He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He's continually working out His ultimate perfection for you...
Oswald Chambers
#4. What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts.
Enric Sala
#5. But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.
Edward Hirsch
#6. Artemis: Holly, how did you find me?
Holly: Oh, I saw a huge explosion and wondered: now, who could that be?
Eoin Colfer
#7. The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.
Noam Chomsky
#8. I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
Ahmed Ben Bella
#9. Now my uncle knew many of them personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind. He used to entertain them at his house.
Marcel Proust
#10. I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.
Avril Lavigne
#11. Okay," I started, "perhaps at this juncture we should discuss our
relationship."
"Clue in again, Gwen, the reason our relationship is the way it is, is
so I don't ever have to waste my fuckin' time doin' stupid-ass shit
like discussing it."
Oh boy. Now I was getting really angry.
Kristen Ashley
#12. When I watch the movie, which is I don't know how many times I've done now with editing and everything, I walk out giddy just because I feel like that's the movie that I want to see.
Thomas Tull
#13. We think being a Christian means to go to church on Sunday and trying to be good through the week. Now I see it means suffering, being willing to let the hard things happen to you, so that God can use us to do His work on this earth!
Kimberly L. Smith
#14. You defy me again, I'll take you to that bed and make you my queen right ... fucking ... now.
Kristen Ashley
#15. We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.
Donal Logue
#16. My outlook has changed, Antonia. Last year this time, I'd bemoaned the ruined hay." He shrugged. "Now I know what real loss is. So I'm seeing things differently.
Debra Holland
#17. 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
#18. Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.
Hugo Gernsback
#19. You don't see him again. Sometimes you worry that he loved you better than any man ever has or will
even if it had nothing to do with you. Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into a cab, every runner along the river, every motorcycle coming and going.
Melissa Bank
#21. O sleep! O sleep!
Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep,
Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand
Over the lids that crave thy visits bland,
Thou kind, thou comforting one.
For I have seen his face, as I desired,
And all my story is done.
O, I am tired.
Jean Ingelow
#22. The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.
John Conyers
#23. Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.
Julie Murphy
#24. you need to make changes in yourself and your environment, don't dwell on your past. You can't change it. Don't worry about your future. You can't control it. Focus on the current moment and what you can do now. 6.
John C. Maxwell
#25. You've got a goal in life. I've got a goal. Now all we need is a football team.
Groucho Marx
#26. Rich and famous and doing good," mused Schlichtmann. "Rich isn't so difficult. Famous isn't so difficult. Rich and famous together aren't so difficult. Rich, famous, and doing good
now, that's very difficult.
Jonathan Harr
#27. Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?
Pope Paul VI
#28. 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
#29. Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
A. N. Wilson
#30. No need for false hope...
...
So far where I am now... is nowhere done... just nowhere....
Deyth Banger
#31. It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.
Jeff Bridges
#32. 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
#33. If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.
Derrick Rose
#34. We use Ann sparingly right now so that people don't get tired of her.
Mitt Romney
#35. I see her now."
I stop and look at him. "Um, see who?"
"You. The girl I used to know.
Nyrae Dawn
#36. I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone. But they wouldn't leave me alone. They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me.
Charles Dickens
#37. The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.
Anna Wintour
#38. During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
Ibrahim Rugova
#39. The domestic violence policy has been given to our players. My personal view is there's no place in our society for it. I think, especially with the emphasis and education that's out there now, let's hope better light will be shined on this area.
Mike McCarthy
#40. Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.
Fergie
#41. When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.
Charlotte Bronte
#42. The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.
Tracy Morgan
#43. There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.
NeNe Leakes
#45. How funny it was. The very thing that had broken her heart, now no longer wanted. A trick of time.
Robin Black
#46. I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
Fatima Siad
#47. Look at me, now. Don't I sit before you, e very way, just as much a man as you are? Look at my face - look at my hands - look at my body," and the young man dr ew himself up proudly. "Why am I not a man, as much as anybody?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#48. Now, for what sins he made satisfaction, for them the justice of God is satisfied; which surely is not done for the sins of the reprobates, because he justly punisheth them to eternity upon themselves, Matt. v. 26.
John Owen
#49. I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.
Catherine Opie
#50. I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.
Mike Krzyzewski
#51. Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!
George Rogers Clark
#52. U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1911, couched its decision in these clear terms: 'Seven men and a corporate machine have conspired against their fellow citizens. For the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15th.
Jim Marrs
#53. It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it.
Elizabeth Berg
#54. Dumbledore turned back to look out of the fiery window; the sun was now a ruby red glare along the horizon.
J.K. Rowling
#55. Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!
Robert D. Hales
#56. Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.
David Markson
#57. They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them
Kevin Martin
#58. Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.
Marquis De Lafayette
#59. Now that is the real thing, the straight goods from the mass unconscious, friend; that little girl is a witch. There's just no place for her to function in this society. She'd have seen the devil, if she hadn't been brought up on The Bionic Man and all those Star Trek reruns.
William Gibson
#61. No words could possibly contain all he has to say. He manages to utter, at last, I'm okay, and this is enough for now.
Lauren Groff
#62. Mephistopheles: Over! A stupid word. How so over? Over and pure nothing: completely the same thing! "It's over now!" What's that supposed to mean? It's as good as if it never was.
Jonathan Franzen
#63. I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.
Sergio Aragones
#64. Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.
William Bolcom
#65. If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.
Dorothy Parker
#66. She only wears black now and she's umm; well she's threatening to become a vampire.
Guy Portman
#67. It's great to have other people's help. Then the music gets heard. There's a lot more commercial support for that now.
Madeleine Peyroux
#68. I hate to tell but now is all there ever is.
Confucius
#69. Calm down, I'm calling you to say I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe. Calm down, I'm calling back to say I'm home now I,m coming around, coming around nobody likes to but I really like to cry nobody likes me maybe if I cry.
Tegan Quin
#70. If our holding certain values had no effect at all on what we chose to do, values would lose all their importance. Now
Peter Singer
#71. Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden.
Henry Mitchell
#72. I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
Agatha Christie
#73. Eli: [whispering to Solara, after seeing the graves George and Martha made] We gotta go now.
Solara: They killed all these people.
Eli: Not just killed them, they ate them.
Solara: Her hands, her hands were shaking.
Eli: Too much human meat. Let's go.
Book Of Eli Movie
#74. Get in here and make me some dinner - now, woman."
"News flash, Michael, you're supposed to be evil, not redneck!
Rachel Caine
#75. Everton are now hitting the ropes running.
Glenn Hoddle
#76. Every now and then, someone will stop me and say, 'Do I know you?' And I just say, 'Nope.'
Jade Jagger
#77. Now, Rowsby Woof was the man's dog; and he was the most objectionable, malicious, disgusting brute that ever licked a man's hand. He
Richard Adams
#78. Now for reasons that have to do with the increase of the artificial, the move away from ancestral and natural models, and the loss in robustness owing to complications in the design of everything, the role of Black Swans in increasing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#79. Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the better. We have the opportunity to raise the bar in the faith-based world by forging a culture in which inclusivity, diversity, and equality are paramount.
Lynn Schusterman
#80. The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.
David Hockney
#81. Technology is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming like one family. With the global threats resulting from science and technology, the whole of humankind now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty to the whole of the human race.
Joseph Rotblat
#82. I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!
Dick Van Dyke
#84. If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.
Christopher Hitchens
#85. So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
Billy Joel
#86. Moments. This is one. This right here, right now, is definitely a moment.
Now Is Good
#87. They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity.
Edith Wharton
#88. One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
#89. It is indeed a much greater thing that I do now than I have ever done.
Charles Dickens
#90. I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.
Tarvaris Jackson
#91. We gave you too much education and now you've gained too much knowledge that is blinding your wisdom.
S.A. David
#92. Now is not the time for making new enemies.
Voltaire
#93. Being is central, and Being is now. The fulfillment of your life is not going to happen through anything. The outer activities in your life are secondary. What is Primary is Being.
Eckhart Tolle
#95. First you must face your own reality in the present, here and now! If you fail to do that, if you do not obtain first-hand experience from it, there will be no deep, far-reaching changes in you.
Frank M. Wanderer
#96. Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope ... Now we are together again to make peace.
Black Kettle
#97. What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.
Siobhan Davies
#98. It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.
Thomas Jane
#99. It's so scary. And then I end up getting so nervous that I get like [I am] now. I get really hyper. [Squeals.] So then I go in interviews and I'm like, 'I'm like a chihuahua! I'm shaking and peeing!' And then afterwards, I'm like, 'I just talked about peeing on the red carpet.'
Jennifer Lawrence
#100. In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.
Walter Bagehot
