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 phrase to produce a lie and ten minutes to decode it.”
“It takes a pillage.”
Source: It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street
“It takes a poet to re - member grief , humiliation , rage and ecstasy , to mine her own sweet soul and ravaged heart a thousand times to forge a wonder tale so true each listener will know just how and why they too might choose to dare , flee , love , or lie .”
Source: Sitting On The Hag Seat: A Celtic Knot of Poems
“It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.”
“It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to temptation. There are so many things today in modern music, on television, and in the movies that portray a life that is nowhere near the life the Lord would have us live. Consequently, we cannot afford to turn to the radio, television, or Hollywood to take our cues about what is right and what is wrong. It is scary to realize that the more we are exposed to Hollywood's version of life, the more we gradually begin to accept it.”
“It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.”
“It takes a Real man to fill my shoes.”
“It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.”
“It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.”
“It takes a real man to wear silk! There aren't a lot of manly men in rock and roll because it's all about cross-dressing to a degree. You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll.”
“It takes a real secure man to understand it's okay to cry and a even wiser one to teach that it's okay.”
“It takes a real secure man to understand it's okay to cry and an even wiser one to teach that it's okay.”
“It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.”
“It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.”
“It takes a really long time to realize this, but if you’re lucky you eventually see that you’ve got this life on this planet and you’re responsible for really loving yourself. And I mean really, really, really loving yourself. Love is never a corruption. I’m talking about loving yourself with a true love, a love that’s incorruptible and everlasting.”
“It takes a relative amount of courage just to get out of bed each day. There are those who are stronger in their courage, and they help to compel us along a little further in the fulfillment of our faith.”
Source: Re:
“It takes a revolution, to create a solution”
“It takes a safe and wide love to teach a man that it's possible to fail and remain.”
Source: Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
“It takes a serious head injury to make some lose path, but only takes an opportunity for many to forget where they're coming from”
“It takes a small town to keep you humble.”
Source: A White Bird Flying
“It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.”
“It takes a smart guy to play dumb.”
“It takes a society to combat homelessness, and a strong nation to fight poverty.”
“It takes a society to raise a generation.”
Source: Do Good Design: How Design Can Change Our World
“It takes a sour woman to make a good pickle.”
Source: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
“It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.”
Source: how to save your own life
“It takes a special ear to appreciate the many sounds of good music.”
“It takes a special key to lock the door that no other keys can open.”
“It takes a special kind of person to fight back.”
Source: Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)
“It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur”
Source: #Girlboss
“It takes a special person to take failure on the chin, check their ego at the door, and to learn from their mistakes. But oftentimes that is what's required to be successful.”
Source: Fit For Success - Lessons on Achievement and Leading Your Best Life
“It takes a special reader to experience a special book, and allow the inspiration, inevitable in the process, to move him to action.”
Source: Justin is a Special Eight
“It takes a sterner stuff for a person in love to think straight. Most people fall head over heel in love leaving their minds behind. Love sweeps them off their feet and they stand lopsided, and so is their thinking. They accept the unacceptable in the guise that love is blind. When the reality of matrimony opens their eyes, they are pregnant with regrets.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“It takes a strong, brilliant person to do that—to love the world after it wronged them, not just once but over and over again.”
Source: Dreaming of Hiraeth
“It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.”
“It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.”
“It takes a strong heart to drive on clogged arteries.”
“It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.”
“It takes a strong man to be with a woman full of fire and stars and all of October.”
“It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“It takes a strong woman to tolerate a weak man. That said, it takes a strong man to tolerate a weak woman, too.”
Source: The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
“It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.”
Source: Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
“It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.”
“It takes a team to do anything of lasting value”
Source: Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)
“It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing”
Source: Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane
“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
“It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.”
“It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.”
“It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.”