N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Now I am the killer AND the prey, a circle of a completely different kind, and my mouth has gone dry as the sterile air, my heart as cold: The temperature of true rage is absolute zero, and mine is deeper than the ocean, wider than the universe.”
“Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.”
Source: Frankenstein
“Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance and sanity, a means of recalling normality.”
Source: The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade
“Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.”
“Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.”
“Now?” I asked. “Like, now now?”
“What other kind of now is there?” Loretta asked.”
Source: The Lost Compass
“Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork that I'm interested in.”
“Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.”
Source: Conversations with May Sarton
“Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?”
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to "real life" -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.”
Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone
“Now I begin to be a disciple. I care for nothing, of visible or invisible things, so that I may but win Christ. Let fire and the cross, let the companies of wild beasts, let breaking of bones and tearing of limbs, let the grinding of the whole body, and all the malice of the devil, come upon me; be it so, only may I win Christ Jesus!”
“Now I begin to be a disciple. Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.”
“Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.”
“Now I believe dreams can come true
And the only thing that matters is spending the rest of my life with you.”
Source: planned to PERFRECTION
“Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.”
“Now I believe in Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. I believe that we are in Christ, we are hid with Christ in God, and we are sealed with the Holy Spirit. So in essence, for Satan to get at me he has to go through the Trinity.”
“Now I believe in the divine work of hands for myself and the world’s fruitful healing and nourishment. It is better than knocking on doors that refuse to open and accept me in. I believe every divine goal will always be successfully achieved when the Spirit of God Almighty is present.”
Source: God's Little Flock Healed 2nd Edition
“Now, I believe it is time for the groom to get ready." He points toward the back pew. "Suit's in the bag there. Private room is just a little ways down the hall. Go get pretty--but take it easy on the lipstick this time.”
Source: Midnight Sanctuary
“Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.”
“Now I brushed a quick kiss over her ruby-colored mouth that tempted me beyond belief. "You should wear lipstick more often."
She snorted. "Why, because you like getting it all over your face?" She rubbed her thumb over my bottom lip and showed me the crimson stain she'd left behind.
"You can get all over my face anytime, darling."
Her cheeks blushed a lovely complementary shade of pink. "Promises, promises."
I grinned at her. "You know I'll keep them.”
Source: Love Walked In
“Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.”
“Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes.”
“Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.”
Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson
“Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week." The magic shifted and swirled, finally etching a picture in the air. It was a rough picture of Foaly, and he was laughing. I hate you, centaur!" screamed Opal, lunging toward, and then through, the insubstantial image. Her eyes rolled back into her head, and then she collapsed, snoring, on the floor. Artemis straightened his tie. Freud, he was certain, would have a field day with that.”
“Now, I can finally break free from their web.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“now i can get them teeth”
“Now I can go back to being ruthless again.”
“Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.”
“Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.”
“Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.”
“Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.”
Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
“Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.”
“Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.”
Source: The Year Of The Flood
“Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.”
“Now I can show you my true nature.”
“Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.”
“Now I can tell you something dirty.
I like men who have a foot fetish.
I absolutely think it's the most charming thing.
It's just so romantic.”
“Now, I can understand why the appearance of a man struggling violently, as it would seem, with an airy nothing, and calling for assistance against a vision, should have appeared ludicrous. Then, so great was my rage against the mocking crowd that had I the power I would have stricken them dead where they stood.”
“Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.”
“Now I can wear high heels again.”
“Now, I choose peace. I choose wholeness. I choose love because I can. I am the author of my own life; I am both the pen and the paper. I am the source and the light. I am the one who declares, "This is how it is now," and so it is.”
“Now I come to look at love
in a new way, now that I know I'm not
standing in its light.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.”
“Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.”
Source: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
“Now, I’d like to ask people in the room, please raise your hand if you have not broken a law, any law, in the past month... That’s the kind of society I want to build. I want to guarantee — with physics and mathematics, not with laws — that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.”
“Now I deny most energetically that anything is, or can be, uninteresting.”
Source: Selected essays
“Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.”
“Now I did not say to you that I don't believe at all!' he finally shouted. 'I'm letting you know, purely and simply, that I'm an unhappy, boring book and nothing more, for the time being, for the time being. But let my name perish! You're what ... we're discussing, not me... I am a man without talent, and all I can do is spill my blood and nothing more, like any man without talent. Let my blood perish as well!”
Source: Demons
“Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.”