I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It takes all sorts (to make a world”
Source: Exemplary Stories
“It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.”
Source: Robert Frost: Speaking on Campus: Excerpts from His Talks, 1949-1962
“It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared.”
Source: Anne of Avonlea
“It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books
“It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.”
“It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.”
“It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.”
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.”
“It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.”
Source: Alice Through the Looking Glass: Musical
“It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
“It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us”
Source: Second Ring of Power
“It takes almost as much effort to NOT do something, as it does to do it.”
Source: How To Focus - Stop Procrastinating, Improve Your Concentration & Get Things Done - Easily!
“It takes almost no capital to open a new See's candy store. We're drowning in capital of our own that has almost no cost. It would be crazy to franchise stores like some capital-starved pancake house. We like owning our own stores as a matter of quality control.”
“It takes an aggressive empathy to accurately replace a person.”
Source: Temporary
“It takes an artist…. to be an artist”
“It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer”
“It takes an average of three hours after the first symptoms of a heart attack are recognized by the patient, before that patient arrives at an emergency room. Symptoms are often denied by the patient - particularly us men, because we are very brave.”
“It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75, or a hundred variations on a single line sometimes. I work on the process of refining low-grade ore. I get maybe a couple of nu ggets of gold out of 50 tons of dirt. It is tough for me. No, I am not inspired.”
“It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.”
“It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.”
“It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.”
Source: Advice from a Failure
“It takes an enormous amount of self-confidence to tell others about your struggles while you are still struggling.”
“It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.”
“It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.”
“It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life.”
“It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.”
“It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.”
“It takes an understanding of humankind to be kind to others.”
“It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.”
Source: Stonewielder: A Novel of the Malazan Empire
“It takes another decision- a daily decision- to rise above this moment. For shalom. For my God.”
Source: A Time to Rise
“It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.”
Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.”
“It takes around 30 minutes for your body to realize you're full, so if you're hungry when you sit down to eat, and you eat as quickly as most Americans do, you're just going to keep throwing down food before that feeling kicks in.”
“It takes as little as 1% of a population to create positive change, and I believe that if 100 million people underwent a personal transformation in the direction of peace, harmony, laughter, love, kindness, and joy...the world would be transformed.”
“it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!”
“it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.”
“It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”
“It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.”
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
“It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.”
“It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something.”
“It takes at least five years of rigorous training to be spontaneous.”
“It takes at least one to make a marriage.”
“It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.”
“It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.”
“It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.”
“It takes awhile, but eventually you realize they lost you. You didn’t lose them.”
“It takes balls to execute an innocent man.”
“It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.”
Source: Midsummer Snowballs
“It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.”