Why Now Quotes:

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

- Steve Carell

source: "Steve Carell learns to love his first time". www.today.com. August 17, 2005.

topic: Talking, Wife, Why Now

Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?

- Sam Altman

topic: Ideas, Perfect, Why Now

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

- J. Cole

topic: Jobs, Tired, College, Part Time Jobs, Why Now

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow's spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

topic: Children, Lying, Spring, Why Now

So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a minute, there’s a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it’s life without a break.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

source: Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

topic: Sleep, Waiting, Needs, Why Now, No Exit

Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.

- David Gemmell

topic: Taken, Men, Years, Why Now

This was nonsense, he thought. The need of her was a physical thing, like the thirsty of a sailor becalmed for weeks on the sea. He'd felt the need before, often, often, in their years apart. But why now? She was safe; he knew where she was - was it only the exhaustion of the past weeks and days, or perhaps the weakness of creeping age that made his bones ache, as though she had in fact been torn from his body, as God had made Eve from Adam's rib?

- Diana Gabaldon

topic: Past, Years, Sea, Why Now, Physical Things

No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk.

- Margaret Atwood

source: Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.325, Anchor

topic: Death, Children, Home, Why Now

Why you? Because there is no one better. Why now? Because tomorrow isn't soon enough.

- Donna Brazile

topic: Tomorrow, Enough, Why Now

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

- Warren Farrell

topic: Son, Boys, Men, Why Now, Disposable

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me

- Drew Brees

topic: Example, Looks, Firsts, Why Now, Why Me

There are no demands - undue demands... There are many questions we get? why China? why now and the answer is why not?... There is no any hidden agenda in our cooperation with China, it is a relationship based on mutual understanding and equality; they understand our situation.

- Jakaya Kikwete

source: During President Hu Jintao's visit to Tanzania, February 16, 2009.

topic: Understanding, Why Not, Agendas, Mutual Understanding, Why Now

Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.48

topic: Love You, Jewels, Long, Why Now

I see why now Tohno-kun is different from the others. Like the rocket shooting off into space, on the loneliest journey to the far end of the solar system. Because he's always looking at something beyond me. He can never see me. I cried myself to sleep, thinking of him.

- Makoto Shinkai

topic: Sleep, Thinking, Journey, Why Now, Thinking Of Him

My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where it all started. Go back and look at history. Look at why the shows you are loving today happened and the artists you are listening to happened. And do your homework on history. Whether it's musical movies, musical plays, Broadway musical recordings - do your homework! And then, that way you will have an understanding of why, now, certain movies, certain plays, certain musicals are making some sort of sense.

- Lorna Luft

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Artist, Play, Careers, Why Now, Broadway Musical

If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly As threading dew I will take you gladly Nor ask more of you. You may sit beside me Silent as a breath Only those who stay dead Shall remember death. And if you come I will be silent Nor speak harsh words to you. I will not ask you why, now. Or how, or what you do. We shall sit here, softly Beneath two different years And the rich earth between us Shall drink our tears.

- Audre Lorde

source: Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Why Now, Harsh Words

She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable hunger for more of it, though she hadn't understood why. Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world. The apple tree was still nice to lie near. They peony, for its scent, also fine. When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within.

- David Wroblewski

topic: Running, Nice, Lying, Insatiable Hunger, Why Now

People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.643, Simon and Schuster

topic: People, Why Me, Sometimes, Why Now

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?

- David Mamet

source: "Crossings: David Mamet’s Work in Different Genres and Media". Book by Johan Callens, 2009.

topic: Want, Able, Three, Why Now, Screenwriting

Why now? Why not wait for a man to come along and…sweep you off your feet?” She gave a short laugh. “If the man you speak of had ever planned on coming, my lord, I’m afraid he has obviously lost his way. And, at twenty-eight, I find I have grown tired of waiting.

- Sarah MacLean

topic: Tired, Men, Feet, Why Now, Tired Of Waiting

Eight full lives,” I whispered against his jaw, my voice breaking. “Eight full lives and I never found anyone I would stay on a planet for, anyone I would follow when they left. I never found a partner. Why now? Why you? You're not of my species. How can you be my partner?” “It's a strange universe,” he murmured. “It's not fair,” I complained, echoing Sunny's words. It wasn't fair. How could I find this, find love–now, in this eleventh hour–and have to leave it? Was it fair that my soul and body couldn't reconcile? Was it fair that I had to love Melanie, too?

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Eight, Soul And Body, Voice, Why Now, Eleventh Hour

['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and answered my question, "Why this? Why now?" And the "why now" is that it's 50 years since the assassination, and the country needs to have and will have a conversation about that. And the "why this" is the construct, which I think is sort of ingenious.

- Rob Lowe

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Country, Book, Thinking, Ingenious, Why Now

That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.

- Sammy Hagar

source: Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

topic: Song, Darkness, Fans, Why Now, Van Halen

Certainly one is brought to the brink of one's sense of who one is, what one has to do, why me, why now, why in this time in history? I am really driven, believe it or not, am awakened by a sense of being in this powerful axis, this turning point in human history.

- Jean Houston

topic: Powerful, Believe, Axes, Why Now

My dad's all I've ever had. When I was 3 and 4, my mom used to take me to bars. I understand why now - babysitters cost beer, beer and-a-half an hour.

- Christopher Titus

source: "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

topic: Mom, Dad, Beer, Why Now, Babysitter

I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.

- Christian Boltanski

source: "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

topic: Dying, Why Not, Machines, Why Now

When I first walked into a church, I was judged heavily for my life, and how I had lived, and that's part of the reason why now I am trying to make a change in our churches, because what happened was it was almost like something I had to keep secret, when in reality, Jesus himself hung out with prostitutes and tax collectors.

- Heather Veitch

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Jesus, Reality, Secret, Why Now

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

- Nicholas Negroponte

source: "Being Digital". Book by Nicholas Negroponte, 1995.

topic: Differences, Yesterday, Atoms, Why Now, Small Differences

But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Men, Evil, Done, Exclusive, Why Now

We were once fish! We spent millions of years under the water in silence! That's why now we love talking continuously!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Love, Talking, Years, Why Now