N Quotes
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“Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.”
“Now I know that if I'm in a fight or a big argument with executives or the studio or whoever, and it's getting to a point where it's starting to get bad, I don't have to have the fear of, "Am I strong enough to see this through? Would I really make a stand here? Would I really quit over this issue?" And I know in my heart that there is a place where I would walk away. I don't have to make it about my ego. I don't have to make it about whether I'm being strong enough or tough enough.”
“Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life”
“Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!”
“Now I know that lives tear too. Can they be re-sewn, re-configured, sides to middle, new strength found? Even if they can, I know I will always feel the tell-tale ridge down the centre, at the heart of me.”
Source: A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss
“now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang”
“Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.”
“Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.”
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story
“Now i know that some of those hidden pearls of truth exist but some are just empty shells that trap us.”
Source: Please Love Me
“Now I know that somewhere inside of you, you understand this and are ready to forgive and let go.”
Source: The Sun Rises in Eastmoor
“Now I know that strange things happen to your body when it meets the snow at 100 mph, no matter what the position. In the twinkling of hitting the snow I regained a proper respect for speed. If you are inattentive, as well as somewhat stupid, you may breed a contempt for big speeds, forgetting respect through the grace of being atop your skis each run. No one on his back at 100 mph will ever after have contempt for speed.”
Source: The Perfect Turn: and other tales of skiing and skiers
“Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.”
“Now I know that the American Dream can leave you in a coma or even kill you. But of course, we knew that back then too. It wouldn’t have been any fun otherwise.”
Source: The Lightness
“Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
“Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.”
“Now I know that you can soak your skin in starlight and scrub your lungs with noonday winds and trail your fingers through ombre sunrises and call yourself the granddaughter of the witches they couldn't burn, and none of that breath or beauty or blaze is ward or amulet.”
Source: The Arrival of Someday
“Now I know that, from this point on, we'll be the ones doing the chasing. And Iike it.”
“Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.”
“Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.”
Source: Strindberg, Five Plays
“Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!”
Source: Not So Deep as a Well
“Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don’t take anything away. A relationship shouldn’t impose limits—and if it does, then it’s wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.”
Source: Killbox
“Now I know this is going to seem counter to every instinct that you have, but I'm going to ask you to sit still, or I'll put you in the trunk.”
Source: The Light and Fallen
“Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.”
“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”
“Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!" "No you don't!" he heard Dori answering, "because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks!”
Source: The Hobbit Or There and Back Again
“Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.”
“Now I know what appears
as the motion of Heaven
is just the motion of Earth.
Not stars.
Not whatever I want.”
“Now I know what happens at a gig, I will be ready for it, next time--I will come in just a T-shirt and shorts and books, and fight my way to the front, like a quietly determined soldier, and then let the band take my head off. I want to walk into rooms like that every night, with a sense of something happening.”
“Now I know what he’s been hiding under these three-piece suits ...”
Source: The Power of Salvation
“Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.”
“Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.”
“Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Now I know what Stephen Hawking meant by the Big Bang! Big Bang is the explosion you experience by the touch of your loved one's lips.”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“Now I know what success is: living your truth, sharing it.”
Source: Live Your Truth
“Now I know what the atom looks like.”
“Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.”
“Now I know who you are U got nothin' on me, I see I should've known it from the start You can't tell me lies Don't even try cuz This is goodbye Goodbye”
“Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!”
“Now I know why I am so strange!!”
“Now I know why I have struggled with my drinking all these years ‘cause I see your face every time I pick a glass.”
Source: Letter 19
“Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.”
“Now I know why the Lord took his day off on Sunday. That must be the day he personally greets his favorites.”
Source: The Wednesday Letters: A Novel
“Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye.”
“Now I know why tigers eat their young.”
“Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.”
“Now I know why yoga is so life-giving for so many. I have never experienced a practice that combines such physical challenge and spiritual wellbeing in my life.”
“Now I know why you have always desired to see Andilain at this time of year. The sweet fragrance of the trees blossoming remind me of the soft skin at your neck. If we should ever travel here I will insist on taking a carriage. You know how I detest riding horses and after two days my backside would be grateful if I never beheld a saddle again.”
Source: Hobin Luckyfeller's Fieldguide: Demoni Vankil
“Now I know without a shadow of doubt that you can't chase away those images, let alone the visible holes that burrow deep down inside. You can't chase away the reverberations or the memories that stir as night falls or in the early hours. You can't chase away echoing screams, still less echoing silence”
Source: No and Me
“Now I know you should listen to what your body is telling you.”
“Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowing into my ears.' But the humble, common tears had relieved me[...]”
Source: The Vet's Daughter