All Quotes

It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
‐‐ Charles Studd

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
‐‐ Chubby Checker

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
‐‐ Bruce Barton

It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.'
‐‐ Reese Hoffa

It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.
‐‐ Russell Means

It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to get it out. Life is supposed to be peaches and cream, but it doesn't turn out that way. I sometimes found things confusing and sometimes didn't understand how things can be so difficult.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.
‐‐ Frank Perdue

It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one. Basketball could be another. Things where you need incredible hand-eye coordination are always options. I think a football player would be able to adapt to a lot of sports.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.
‐‐ John Burnside

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
‐‐ Jean Rostand

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.
‐‐ Kelsey Grammer

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.
‐‐ Peter Mullan

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.
‐‐ Tyler Perry

It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.
‐‐ Omar Dorsey

It takes a while for executives to understand that every company is a spatial company, fundamentally: where are our assets, where are our customers, where are our sales. But when they get it, they light up and say, 'I want to get the geographic advantage.'
‐‐ Jack Dangermond

It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.
‐‐ Gregory Keyes

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.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
‐‐ Diogenes

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
‐‐ Norman Douglas

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
‐‐ Xenophanes

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.
‐‐ Martha Beck

It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.
‐‐ John Madden

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
‐‐ Don Marquis

It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it's not a simple answer. To see Julianne Moore play your mother. To see Paul Dano play you - that's an even more inscrutable question... he's amazing, he's totally amazing, but I can't really say if he's a good me or not.
‐‐ Nick Flynn

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

It takes an extraordinary toll on me to re-live my experiences, the horrors of my past and the pain I had to endure. And yet, I believe remembering is the only way to promote healing, to promote awareness and accountability.
‐‐ Ger Duany

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.
‐‐ Paul Goodman

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
‐‐ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
‐‐ Suzanne Vega

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
‐‐ Leonard Orr

It takes awhile for writers to get to know actors rhythms, not just as actors, but what they bring to the characters. I think it takes a few episodes for the writing room to catch up to the actors and vice versa.
‐‐ Logan Marshall-Green

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.
‐‐ Andy Goldsworthy

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.
‐‐ Ray Comfort

It takes bravery to end a relationship.
‐‐ Leona Lewis

It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
‐‐ E. E. Cummings

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
‐‐ James A. Michener

It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?
‐‐ Regina Brett

It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.
‐‐ Ken Adam

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
‐‐ Alexis Ohanian