I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It takes a certain kind of person to live in
China now', Chen mused.
'What kind of person?' Mary asked.
'Someone who can see true meanings; someone who does not only want the world better but also believes it can be made better, and gets angry because it is not done. ; someone who is not willing to hide himself in one of the few good places left in the world--someone who is tough!”
Source: Kinfolk
“It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.”
“It takes a checkbook to change the world”
“It takes a child to say the unsayable.”
“It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.”
“It takes a community to start a revolution.”
“It takes a compassionate heart to realize that people are suffering and needs help. And a compassionate heart produces love, and it takes love to give. It is only a heart filled with love, that will not be greedy or selfish.”
“It takes a confident and competent rat to compete in a rat race and win.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“It takes a conscious practice of reason to recognize greatness in the making and shallowness in the limelight.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“It takes a constant effort of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally.”
Source: The Trick to Money is Having Some
“It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOOING your woman” should be a continuous process. It should NEVER end after you get your “yes” from her. If you did a lot to get her, you should do more to keep her.”
“It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.”
“It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.”
Source: Venus in Arms
“It takes a crazy person to understand a crazy nation!”
“It takes a day to break a city, then fifty years to rebuild.”
“It takes a dedicated hand, to put it through the wall.”
“It takes a deep and abiding love for yourself to have the patience to wait for the companion who is mentally healthy enough to see the beauty in your heart. No filters required.”
Source: Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul: Poems and Inspiration to Live and Love Harmoniously
“It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.”
“It takes a different approach to create success that supports life, but it’s a choice you can make for yourself right now. Today. In this moment. EnVision is your path to sustainable, nourishing, aligned profitability.”
Source: The Path To Profits: An Entrepreneur's Guide To Having It All... And Still Having A Life!
“It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.”
“It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.”
“It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.”
“It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.”
“It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish.”
“It takes a fantastic will to unbelief to suppose that Jesus never really ‘happened’, and more to suppose that he did not say the things recorded of him – so incapable of being ‘invented’ by anyone in the world at that time: such as ‘before Abraham came to be I am’ (John viii). ‘He that hath seen me hath seen the Father’ (John ix); or the promulgation of the Blessed Sacrament in John v: ‘He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life’. We must therefore either believe in Him and in what he said and take the consequences; or reject him and take the consequences.
Letter 250
To Michael Tolkien”
Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.”
“It takes a female to have a baby,
It takes a woman to raise a child,
It takes a mother to raise them correctly,
It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.”
“It takes a few days for the transformation to be complete, depending on how much venom is in the bloodstream, how close the venom is to the heart. As long as the heart keeps beating, poison spreads, healing, changing the body as it moves through it. Eventually the heart stops, and the conversion is finished. But all the time, every minute of it, a victim would be wishing for death”
Source: Twilight
“It takes a few key building blocks including leadership, strategy, structure, and capability to shape a customer-centric digital business.”
Source: 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready
“It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.”
“It takes a few years to understand what we've lived through. At the moment, we're still sort of mired in the irrelevant bullshit. There isn't yet that public conversation about 9/11.”
“It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle.”
Source: Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer
“It takes a fool to rush off to war!”
“It takes a genius to whine appealingly.”
Source: A Life in Letters
“It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.”
“It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past”
“It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.”
“It takes a good guy with a gun, to stop a bad guy with a gun (unless the bad guy's a much better shot).”
“It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.”
“It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.”
Source: Where There's a Will
“It takes a great client to create great architecture.”
“It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry.”
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
“It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.”
Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
“It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.”
Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
“It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.”
Source: Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections
“It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.”
Source: the female eunuch
“It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.”
Source: Who You are when No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.”
Source: Twelve angry men: a play in three acts
“It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.”
Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters