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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
George Jean Nathan

Time, Said, Goes

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Place, Problems, Ourselves

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler

Try, Old, Nation

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler

Science, Light, Reading

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
Samuel Butler

God, Last, Witch

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.
Bret Michaels

Brain, Enjoy, Moment

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
Annie Lennox

Best, Future, Past

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Kin Hubbard

I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia.
Puff Daddy

Sleep, Night, Working

I've never been more normal than I am now.
Adele

Now you know the rest of the story.
Paul Harvey

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.
Garrison Keillor

Life, Love, Good

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
Leonard Cohen

Young, Old, Face

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.
Alanis Morissette

Spiritual, Angry, Point

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Crazy, Drunk, Him

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
Alexander McQueen

Fashion, Idea, Modern

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
Jimmy Durante

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco

Truth, Mad, Whole

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.
Stephen Fry

Depression, Word, Point

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
David Suzuki

Home, Future, Human

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
Zhuangzi

Around, Sky, Wonder

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
Gertrude Stein

Doubt, Depressing, Fathers

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
Martin Heidegger

Food, Same, Industry

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope

Before, Rich, Poor

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
James Allen

Good, Money, Real

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
Paul McCartney

Down, Said, Write

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
Horace

Time, Light, Whatever

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
Horace

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Joan Baez

Live, Die, Choose

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
Jack Welch

Work, Hard, Around

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