Now Quotes - page 10

I still believe there are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature. (Stephen Hawking)
Now is the age of anxiety. View quote
W. H. Auden
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. View quote
Samuel Johnson
When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow. View quote
Fred Hoyle
We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. View quote
Margaret Atwood
There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves. View quote
Jane Goodall
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience. (V. S. Pritchett)
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth. View quote
Martin Feldstein
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? View quote
Carl Rogers
GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I now think Love is rather deaf than blind, For else it could not be That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me And cast my love behind. View quote
Ben Jonson
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright. View quote
Ben Jonson
I spilled spot remover on my dog; now he's gone. View quote
Steven Wright
Every now and then, when you're onstage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live. (Shelley Winters)
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important. View quote
Mae West
I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak. View quote
David Boreanaz
Haven't laughed this hard in a long time,I better stop now before I start crying.Go off to sleep in the sunshine,I don't want to see the day when it's dying. View quote
Elliott Smith
Here lies my wife here let her lie Now she's at rest, and so am I. View quote
John Dryden