I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.”
Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel
“It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.”
“It takes tremendous courage to change and grow up to be what we want to be.”
“It takes tremendous courage to keep going for your dreams in the face of laughter. Particularly if those judging you are closes family, or prominent in some way that matters to you. I'm here from my fiftysomething perch to say to you: Keep going. Honor your voice. Even if they laugh, do it anyway. People who judge others tend to be very unhappy with some aspect of their own life. A huge aspect of adulting is finding the courage to do what you want with your life even if those who claim to love you the most outright disown you for it. It's YOUR life. Don't you ever forget that.”
Source: Your Turn: How to Be an Adult
“It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.”
“It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.”
“It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life and a happy life, and of course, be dedicated to the cause.”
“It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.”
“It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.”
“It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth.”
“It takes truth, and it takes speaking truth to power, but because the stranglehold is so tight it seems to take something else - a real political threat.”
“It takes twenty or so years before a mother can know with any certainty how effective her theories have been--and even then thereare surprises. The daily newspapers raise the most frightening questions of all for a mother of sons: Could my once sweet babes ever become violent men? Are my sons really who I think they are?”
Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie
“It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.”
“It takes two flints to make a fire.”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.”
“It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!”
“It takes two hands to clap.”
“It takes two men to make one brother.”
Source: The Principle of Nationalities
“It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.”
Source: Sand and Foam
“It takes two people to create a successful relationship, but it takes only one to fail it.”
Source: When Fate Conspires
“It takes two people to make a friendship work”
Source: Between the Lines
“It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”
Source: William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck
“It takes two people to plant a tree, and they should take their time over it, for they cannot have anything more important to do with the time saved by haste.”
Source: Good Fruit Guide
“It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.”
“It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.”
“It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.”
“It takes two to bribe.”
Source: The New Land
“It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one.”
“It takes two to destroy a marriage.”
“It takes two to get one in trouble.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“It takes two to have a fight.”
Source: Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking About Human Interactions
“It takes two to know one.”
“It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.”
“It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“It takes two to make a thing go right.”
“It takes two to make a woman into a sex object.”
Source: The Descent of Woman
“It takes two to make an accident.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“It takes two to make peace.”
“It takes two to manage the relationship, but it takes one to begin the change.”
“It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.”
“It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.”
“It takes two to tango and one to let go.”
“It takes two to tango, but is alway takes one person to ask another to dance. Don’t sit and wait.”
Source: How to Live in the City
“It takes two to tango, but it always takes one person to ask another to dance. Don’t sit and wait.”
Source: How to Live in the City
“It takes two to tango but It takes "ONE" to Love”
“It takes two to tango but just one dance with the devil to bring the house down.”
“It takes two to tango, but only one to step on toes.”
“It takes two to tango”; one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made.”
Source: If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...