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 tremendous amount of passion to do innovative things every day.”
“It takes a tremendous amount of strength to be a single mother. To hold down the forte of a home, a life and your child's entire happiness.”
“It takes a tremendous act of courage to admit to yourself that you are not defective in any way whatsoever.”
“It takes a tribe to raise a human.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“It takes a truly cool girl to pull off short-shorts and rain boots.”
“It takes a unique woman to see me as any sort of catch.”
“It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.”
“It takes a vast amount of self control to be this dangerous.”
Source: Prospero Burns
“It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.”
Source: The substance of man
“It takes a very long time to become young.”
“It takes a very long time to read a script. I'll look at a script, but there are so many scripts. I remember once being at the dentist, and the guy was doing my teeth and telling me about the screenplay he'd written and he said, "Will you read it?" And I said "Oh...okay." And it turns out that it was about a dentist!”
“It takes a very selfish person to not feel lonely at times.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.”
“It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.”
“It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.”
Source: Science and Government
“It takes a very very strong individual not to be corrupt in any of those things as time moves on. Myself and other people who went that road and experienced that world, some got a second birth of life and some is in the dirt.”
“It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.”
Source: The Ordeal of Change
“It takes a victorious mindset to be prosperous in the end, regardless of what happened in the process.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“It takes a village to raise a child.”
Source: Talking It Over: A collection of her newspaper columns from 1995 to 1996
“IT TAKES A VILLIAGE TO RAISE A CHILD! BUT A NATION TO TRANSFORM SPECIAL CHILDREN LIFES!”
“It takes a warrior's courage to acknowledge that your point of view matters, that your truth matters, that your gifts matter, and that your presence on this earth matters. You don’t have to earn this right; it’s yours as part of your birthright.”
“It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.”
“It takes a well-adjusted animal to know when to ask for help”
Source: Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
“It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
“It takes a while, but all of us will find our path. That day is not far away.”
Source: Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected
“It takes a while for the heat to work in this piece of shit, but when it kicks in, you’ll sweat like a fat whore at confession.”
Source: How Hard Can It Be?
“It takes a while to believe that someone who promised to be with you forever has left you forever.”
“It takes a while to get a movie together, and they dont start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.”
“It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.”
Source: Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
“It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.”
“It takes a while to really love yourself...”
“It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years.”
“It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.”
“It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.”
“It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.”
“It takes a wild sort of courage to break your own heart in order to stay true to yourself.”
“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”
“It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.”
Source: Siren Land: And Fountains in the Sand
“It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.”
Source: Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments : a Text and Translation with a Commentary
“It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.”
“It takes about 6 hours of practice a day for quite a few years to become a professional juggler. I started when I was 14 and that discipline has helped me immensely as a performer.”
“It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.”
“It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in order to strengthen the muscular structure of the body. The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. The movement become clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life, the law which governs its outer aspects”
“It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.”
“It takes all kinds to make a world go round.”
“It takes all my strength to do daily tasks. To some people, I’m just a number. I’m a projected food stamps debit card lifetime member. I’m seen as crazy or insane, but it doesn’t matter. I know I am bigger than my suffering.”
Source: Trace The Grace: A Memoir
“It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and – something that may surprise you more – it takes just as long to learn how to die.”
Source: On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“It takes all of this technology to come up here and understand the simplicity of things. From here, it’s really difficult to understand borders, wars, and hate.”
“It takes all shapes, sizes, and light to uplift this world. Be your own special kind of weird. You're of immense value!”