I Quotes
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“It took me a long time to turn the page and close the chapter. That's because i wasn't finished writing the book, but sometimes characters leave and the story must go on without them.”
“It took me a long time to understand not to get caught up in other people's expectations. It really comes down to creative fulfillment. It took me a while to realize I don't want to just be on a show to be on a show.”
“It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.”
“It took me a long time to understand why so much that surrounded me was too ugly to tolerate without protest. But eventually I learned the reason. I saw that the conduct of my fellow-men could not be otherwise than disappointing, in fact parasitical and corrupt, and that most of our troubles emanated from a cause which manifestly would grow worse so long as we put up with it. That cause was Capitalism...The motivating principle of business (though not openly confessed), when summed up, meant: "Get yours; never mind the other fellow." I saw, too, that our law-makers and judges of the meaning of the law put property rights first and left human rights to shift for themselves.”
Source: Art Young: His Life and Times
“It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.”
“It took me a long while to realize it but being unseen didn’t mean I didn’t matter. It didn’t mean that I wasn’t chosen. When you think about it, it all comes down to who’s looking. You don’t need every eye on you. Just the right one.”
Source: Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts
“It took me a long while to realize that Rhysand, whether he knew it or not, had effectively kept me from shattering completely.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.”
“It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“It took me a really long time to decide who I want my circle to be and who I want to surround myself with. Once you make that choice, that is where I feel like I have built my strength. This is my life choice. These are the people that make me feel good about me, and that I love and adore and will do anything for.”
“It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.”
“It took me a very long time to realize that inherently the materials have this beautiful quality without me having to impose meaning onto them.”
“It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy too.”
“It took me a while to accept that I'm not going to have the curves other girls get.”
“It took me a while to feel comfortable in front of the camera and so I just needed to do it a lot.”
“It took me a while to figure it out, but it was faster after I got around that mental block. Walk or die, that's the moral of this story. Simple as that. It's not survival of the physically fittest, that's where I went wrong when I let myself get into this. If it was, I'd have a fair chance. But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty. It isn't man or God. It's something... in the brain.”
Source: The Long Walk
“It took me a while to figure it out, but to have a real hit on Broadway, you have to get the respected Broadway people to like it. But then the production also has to appeal to the most middle-class people who know nothing about Broadway and who come to see it later.”
“It took me a while to figure out why I was frequently almost pooping my pants! It eventually emerged it was an abrupt increase in solar radiation levels that was triggering diarrhea to occur.”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.”
“It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.”
“It took me a while to realize I'm an NBA player.”
“It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.”
“It took me a while to realize that's just your body preparing you to do something.”
“It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'”
“It took me a while to work out what it was; love—the kind of love that shouldn't exist for two sixteen year olds. It's almost too much. Too heavy. Too soon. I used to worry about what could be left. What is there to look forward to when you fall in this kind of love when you're so young? And then I worked it out. Forever. I have forever to look forward to.”
Source: More Than Forever
“It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.”
“It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.”
“It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.”
“It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.”
“It took me all day to get that car out. Well, it wasn’t a car. That’s just what I thought it might be when I spotted part of it jutting out from decades of forest undergrowth, and moss, inside a mound of blackberry bushes.”
Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.”
“It took me being faced with a choice whether to take a child's life to make me able to surrender to the undeniable call to love my enemies. That was the first time I felt pulled between what God was asking of me and what my country required of me. God wasn't calling out my bad theology- God was confronting my Unlove.”
Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First
“It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.”
“It took me even longer to understand that, once you have reached a certain age, you can no longer suffer one loss at a time, that loss is cumulative and, with each new experience of it, all your old losses will join forces and come back en masse to haunt you again.”
Source: Our Lady of the Lost and Found
“It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
“It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.”
“It took me five minutes of awkward silence to come up with an answer, but upon careful consideration, I told her that my perfect job would entail spending the day in a cushiony room, napping with baby animals. Maybe they had been abandoned by their mothers of left by the side of the road; whatever their situation, it would be my job to keep them company and pet them and generally give them a warm motherly vibe. When they wanted to play and roll around on the floor, I would do that with them, and then when they got tired, they could fall asleep in the crook of my arm or snuggled in my blouse. And sometimes I would give them a warm bottle, just like in all the nature specials. But they would definitely have to be baby animals. I wasn't about to get scratched or nipped or anything - I'm no St. Francis.”
Source: I Know I Am, But What Are You?
“It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.”
“It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.”
“It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.”
“It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.”
“It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.”
Source: A pocketful of pebbles
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
“It took me getting to my 50s before I could say "Whatever!" about other people's criticism, especially when it's not true.”
“It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.”
“It took me longer to arrive because I chose God as my only partner. By His grace, I am here.”