I Quotes
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“It took a woman to actually do something about the lack of women in creative departments.”
“It took a year for us to conceive our second child. This is a common ordeal for the average middle-class American couple that puts off having children until their thirties. We knew so many other couples that had experienced fertility problems and miscarriages that it was more surprising when someone we knew had a child without being consigned to thirty-eight consecutive weeks of bed rest. Turns out God WANTS you to conceive when you’re eighteen years old, apparently so that you can spend your twenties miserable and penniless and living in a camper.”
Source: Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood
“It took about three minutes for the unassuming Waffle House to become the new offices of the law firm of Amber, Amber, Amber, and Madison. They set up camp in a clump of booths in the corner opposite from us. A few of them gave me an "oh, good, you are still alive" nod, but for the most part, they had no interest in anyone else.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
“It took all four of us to make our friendship work. We were a square, and if one side collapsed, all sides collapsed.”
Source: The Best Summer of Our Lives
“It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.”
“It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?”
“It took Caine a few beats to get it. “No. Go kill yourself. Eat your own gun. No. No no no.”
“You’re happy here counting fish and nagging kids to work?” Edilio asked.
“He’s not,” Virtue said, beating Toto to the punch and earning an annoyed glance from Caine.
“He’s only done it for two days since the battle, and he’s already bored.”
Source: Light
“It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.”
“It took centuries for the justice system in modern history to adopt the law of the Presumption of Innocence from ancient Babylonia. It is past due that we humans do as well, adopting it as a principle of moral values in our personal and social life.”
Source: Rebel Thoughts of Wisdom: Inspiring Conscious Change for Personal & Collective Growth
“It took Christians many years to realize that we cannot love God and also keep humans as slaves. It has taken even longer for Christians to realize that we cannot love God and also regard women as second-class humans. Now is the time for Christians to realize that we cannot love God and hate the Creator's nonhuman creatures.”
Source: Animal Gospel
“It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.”
Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel
“It took courage to live an immortal life and not close off your heart and mind to any new experiences or new people. Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I won't, either.”
“It took dust in my eyes to see clearly, it took fasting for me to understand hunger & it took forgiveness for me know love.”
“It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.”
“It took every ounce of me to try to not love you back. And then I did. Now it takes every ounce of me to try to not show you how much I do. And then I do.”
“It took every ounce of self-control I could muster to keep my eyes focused on my work and not on you the entire time. All I could see was the way your nose would shrivel slightly when you laughed... The longing in your eyes for a love like that of the bride and groom.”
Source: The Echo of Choice
“It took fifty years for me to release that pain and to honor the voice of the broken girl. I feel blessed to have found the words to tell this story, tough I don't recommend that anyone wait that long Pain is pain. Speak up. Tell your story." Ruth Behar, the author”
Source: Lucky Broken Girl
“It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.'”
“It took four years for me to fall in love with him.
It only took four pages to stop.”
Source: November 9
“It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.”
“It took greater energy to be able to focus when heard
the voice of wisdom in a hustle bustle than in serenity.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“It took her a moment, as always, to acclimate to the roar that surged in her mind's ears, a sound she had attempted to describe to her sister and mother more than once but never could. Like being filled with golden bees that were all actually one bee, which was actually a field of shining wheat rustling beneath a blazing sun. It was a sound but not a sound. It was in her ears but it was in her head. It was like tasting a feeling and the feeling was power.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“It took her all her energy to sit up on her bed and take a couple of bong hits before deciding which mask to wear for the outside world.”
Source: The De-Coding of Jo: Hall of Ignorance
“It took her forty five minutes to die.”
Source: Sarah Luger
“It took him 75 steps to get from third to home. I thought we were going to have to go out there and help him. A lot of players start thinking double then maybe wind up with a triple because the outfielder slips.”
“It took him a minute to register what I said, but when he did, he threw his head back and
laughed as we walked to lunch. I loved that about him, how his eyes crinkled shut with
complete confidence that the world would wait for him.
-Andy and the Extroverts”
Source: Andy and the Extroverts
“It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.”
Source: Jesus Land: A Memoir
“It took him forever to disappear.
It took him so long that by the time he was gone, everything had changed. I didn’t hurt anymore, didn’t feel like hiding anymore, wasn’t scared anymore. Because I wasn’t anything anymore. Not anything I love or know or care about.”
Source: The Brothers K
“It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.”
“It took him half an hour to reach the little mission chapel. From his position on his back in the river he could see just the tip of the steeple, but for the most part he gazed upward at the constellations. Rudy knew his constellations, because each one of his daughters had done a science project on them and they'd spent hours lying on their backs in the middle of the Edgar Lee Masters campus looking up at the sky. As the river bent to the south, he could see Virgo and Centaurus coming into view. At first they reminded him of true beauty, and he was overwhelmed. He knew that this heart-piercing ache, however painful, was the central experience of his life and that he would have to come to terms with it. No one - not Aristotle, not Epicurus, not Siva Singh - would ever convince him otherwise. But then it occurred to him that Virgo and Centaurus were just as arbitrary as the rudimentary classification system he'd used for his books - Helen's books. There were a lot of stars left out of the constellations, and nothing to stop you from drawing the lines in different ways to create different pictures. He wanted to lift his wings and fly, but he didn't have the power. He could only let the river carry him along.”
Source: Philosophy Made Simple
“It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.”
Source: The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
“It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.”
“It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.”
“It took just three years of working extreme night shifts to wreck my health!”
Source: Night Shift Recovery
“It took less than a year from first detection of COVID-19 for it to rampage through the White House staff and the President of the USA.”
“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!”
Source: The Creation of the Universe
“It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.”
“It took like 5 hours to complete my virgin Mary. I was raised Catholic and it seemed like a good idea.”
“it took
losing him
to finally
find
myself.
It took
losing him
a second time
to be sure
of myself.
that
was my
first act
of
self-love.”
Source: The Princess Saves Herself in This One
“It took losing him to finally find myself. It took losing him a second time to be sure of myself that was my first act of self-love. - I would thanks you, but we both know you don't deserve it”
Source: The Princess Saves Herself in This One
“It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
“It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.”
“It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.”
“It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.”
“It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.”
“It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'”
“It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.”
“It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF IN YOURSELF.”