I Quotes
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“It survives if true to itself. It lingers if real. It hopes if there is no hope. It lives beyond death.”
“It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)
“It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.”
Source: Stepping Heavenward
“It symbolises strength."
Bastien snorts. "It certainly doesn't provide any.”
Source: Endgame
“It symbolizes a spear, and in this sorry world the symbol is the thing.”
Source: American Gods
“It't hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.”
“It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.”
“It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to cities and industry, they will import more grain. As they do so, water scarcity will be transmitted across national borders via the grain trade. Aquifer depletion is a largely invisible threat, but that does not make it any less real.”
“It takes 10 hands to score a basket”
“It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.”
“It takes 10 years to get all the permits to build a bridge today. Ten years? What happened to the good old can-do America? Where is "We get it done, we work together"? We've become this bureaucratic, stifling environment. I'm not talking about violating environmental things - I'm talking about building a bridge, getting things going, getting people to work together.”
“It takes 12 flips per second to run a human. Six when they are resting.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.”
“It takes 16 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of beef. It takes 1 lb of grain to make 1 lb of bread. So, how many more plants are you eating if you eat a pound of beef? Secondly, I've harvested cabbages and pulled up carrots out of the ground and I've been in slaughter-houses and seen the animals have their brains bashed out with sledgehammers and their throats cut - the experiences are not comparable.”
“It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.”
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”
Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“It takes 21 days to develop a habit.”
“It takes 24 hours to 6 months to make money, but it takes 1 to 5 good years to build a successful business with structure.”
“It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.”
“It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.”
Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“It takes 3 weeks to break a habit, 6 weeks to develop a new habit and 36 weeks to hardwire this new habit.”
“It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.”
“It takes 4 weeks for you to notice your body changing, 8 weeks for your friends to notice, & 12 weeks for the rest of the world to notice. Give it 12 weeks. Don't quit.”
“It takes 42 muscles to smile. Instead pick up your middle finger and say "bite me!”
“It takes 43 muscles to frown and 3 to raise the middle finger.”
“It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.”
“It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.”
“It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?”
“It takes 90 seconds from the time we have a thought that is going to stimulate an emotional response. When we have an emotional response it results in a physiological dumpage into our bloodstream. It flushes through and out of our body in less than 90 seconds.”
“It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.”
“It takes a bee to get the honey out”
Source: A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets
“It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.”
“It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.”
“It takes a big person to avoid small worries.”
“It takes a bomb under his arse to make Hitler see logic.”
“It takes a brave heart to love a baby with wings.”
Source: A Fate Unwound Too Soon: Glimpses of the Divine
“It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.”
“It takes a cat to heal a woman's wounded heart." I say this knowing it takes a full range of other factors to resolve emotional damage issues and restore personal equilibrium. I've had a heaping share of therapy, familial support, friendships and rescue. What I craved now, however, was the privacy, closeness, and unconditional love of a cat to bring my healing process full cycle. I needed CiCi.”
Source: It Takes A Cat
“It takes a cautious swan to conquer a pond.”
“It takes a certain amount of courage, he though, to face yourself and say with candor, I'm rotten. I've done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.”
“It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.”
“It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.”
“It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.”
Source: Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley
“It takes a certain amount of time and faith to accept or to realize that there is no difference between Him and His name, to get to the point where you're no longer mystified by where He is. You know, like, "Is He around here?" You realize after some time, "Here He is - right here!" It's a matter of practice.”
“It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated.”
“It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.”
“It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.”
“It takes a certain kind of man to be in politics--a small one.”
“It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.”