It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
‐‐ Lewis B. Smedes
It takes one person to give you a big chance.
‐‐ Patricia Velasquez
It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.
‐‐ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
It takes one 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 only a few seconds to make history new again.
‐‐ Amity Shlaes
It takes only five minutes to look nice before you go out.
‐‐ Evelyn Lauder
It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
‐‐ George Burns
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
‐‐ George Santayana
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
‐‐ Louisa May Alcott
It takes people a while to trust you.
‐‐ Karl Malone
It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.
‐‐ Drew Curtis
It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
‐‐ J. B. Pritzker
It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
‐‐ Eugene Wigner
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
‐‐ Les Brown
It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.
‐‐ Patti Davis
It takes such a commitment of passion and energy and time, and it's all so encompassing to direct that you've got to see the bullseye, and you know you can hit it - or at least get awfully close.
‐‐ Jonathan Mostow
It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
‐‐ Cal Hubbard
It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.
‐‐ Jorge Paulo Lemann
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
‐‐ Steve Jobs
It takes three to make a child.
‐‐ E. E. Cummings
It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
‐‐ Daisy Donovan
It takes time for 700,000 people to get to know their congressman.
‐‐ Chuck Fleischmann
It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.
‐‐ Utkarsh Ambudkar
It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.
‐‐ Chris Hughes
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
‐‐ Colley Cibber
It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.
‐‐ Chanel Iman
It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.
‐‐ Mark Roberts
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson
It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off.
‐‐ Nicole Scherzinger
It takes time to understand the difference between civilian POWs and military POWs. There's an educational process.
‐‐ Gene Green
It takes too much energy to hate.
‐‐ Cory Booker
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.
‐‐ Regina Brett
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood
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.
‐‐ Vera Wang
It takes two flints to make a fire.
‐‐ Louisa May Alcott
It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.
‐‐ Ed Belfour
It takes two hands to clap.
‐‐ Jiang Zemin
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!
‐‐ Akshay Kumar
It takes two men to make one brother.
‐‐ Israel Zangwill
It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.
‐‐ Gary Bettman
It takes two to get one in trouble.
‐‐ Mae West
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
‐‐ Herbert Samuel
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.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley
It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.
‐‐ Nigel Lythgoe
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
‐‐ Matthew Prior
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau