Top 100 How Long It Takes Quotes
#1. No matter how long it takes, never give up on your dreams
Phoenix Summers
#2. There's one detail I've always remembered: He told me how long it takes the light from the stars to reach through space to us.
How most of the points of light we see actually no longer exist. We're just seeing the remnants of what was
ghosts of what use to be.
Carrie Ryan
#3. If you want something bad enough, take the steps needed to make it happen, no matter how long it takes. Sometimes you get lucky and can skip some steps, but most of the time you can't. The secret to achieving any goal is nothing more than putting in the necessary time and effort.
Bill Loguidice
#4. It's better to do something with quality, no matter how long it takes you rather than do something mediocre, with constant quantity.
Auliq Ice
#5. A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.
Linda Howard
#6. Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you are going to get it done no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, no matter what comes up.
Jack Canfield
#7. Because I believe that love is an overwhelming, all-consuming force, and when its genuine you can't really ignore it. No matter how long it takes. It knocks down your door by force. It keeps you awake at night. It plagues your thoughts and burns your soul.
Jessica Thompson
#8. Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.
George Meany
#9. I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
John Ortberg
#10. Chaos isn't the problem; how long it takes to find coherence is the real game. - Doc Childre and Bruce Crier
David Allen
#11. Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
Ralph W. Sockman
#12. Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.
John Updike
#13. School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#14. No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting ..
Alicia Keys
#15. Living to give to others, working hard for your destiny
and fighting for your dreams are the battles you will never regret no matter how long it takes.
Michael Hutchison
#16. Not just starting marathons but actually finishing them ... (no matter how long it takes) will always lead to making a better you.
Timothy Pina
#17. Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.
Ann Brashares
#18. Lucy Marie Maris ... I am completely and utterly in love with you. And as god is my witness- no matter how long it takes- someday I will be worthy enough to be your husband, because I can't bear the thought of living without you.
Gina L. Maxwell
#19. No matter how long it takes, the United States will find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible for Kayla's captivity and death, iSIL is a hateful and abhorrent terrorist group whose actions stand in stark contrast to the spirit of people like Kayla.
Barack Obama
#20. But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.
Estelle Parsons
#21. Every man can change, no matter how long it takes;
patience and persistence.
K.R. Albers
#22. How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.' I haven't really been fair to you.
Maggie Stiefvater
#23. I am astounded
at how long it takes
to discover ...
for the first time,
the things I have learned ...
over and over again
all my life.
Portia Nelson
#24. People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#25. If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.
Gail Zappa
#26. There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.
John Irving
#27. It doesn't matter how long it takes." She thought of him, of them, the lifetime already shared. "It's how long it lasts.
Nora Roberts
#29. When you do things for the right reasons, eventually no matter how long it takes, people will take notice of it and can't help but respect it.
Gina Carano
#30. Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.
Mat McNerney
#31. If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.
Meg Rosoff
#32. Do you know how long it takes to charm people from Maine? They're uptight white people coated with a hard exterior made from other uptight white people.
Joel Stein
#33. It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.
A.C. Grayling
#34. People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don't know, I'm never there.
Dolly Parton
#35. It does not matter how long it takes. God will fulfil the promises.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#36. There's a sense you get from the Coens' work, like 'No Country for Old Men,' where you put these characters in situations, and you just let this painful amount of time take place. Part of the tension is just how long it takes to get out of that scene.
Noah Hawley
#37. The apple ... came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.
Jodi Picoult
#38. I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I can work before my hand gives out, that sort of thing.
Raina Telgemeier
#39. It does not take a long time," said madame, "for an earthquake to swallow a town. Eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?
Charles Dickens
#40. Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes.
Sanjo Jendayi
#41. The point of war is to win, Kachiun. It does not matter how we do it, or how long it takes.
Conn Iggulden
#42. There's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've been together.
Jennifer E. Smith
#43. Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.
Catherine The Great
#44. Daisy Bowman," he said unevenly, "I'd spend eternity in hell for one hour with you." "Is that how long it takes? An hour?" His reply was rueful. "Sweetheart, at this point it would be a miracle if I lasted one minute.
Lisa Kleypas
#45. Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
Francoise Sagan
#46. No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always-always-makes itself known.
Andy Andrews
#48. A friend of mine once told me a month is about how long it takes to begin seeing another person as another person instead of a character making a cameo appearance in your life
Katie Heaney
#49. The reward of being able to tell stories every day is worth the effort required to make it happen, no matter how long it takes.
Sean Platt
#50. Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!
Daniel Day-Lewis
#52. I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.
Jonathan Nolan
#54. It doesn't matter how long it takes for you to get up again ... Just make sure you get up again.
Timothy Pina
#55. And I'm just saying that by the end of these seven days or maybe a week from then, or a month, you'll say yes." He cupped my cheek and leaned inm pressing his forehead to mine. "And I'll be waiting. No matter how long it takes.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#56. No! You stay alive! Submit, do you hear? You're strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you ... (Hawkeye / The Last of the Mohicans) 97
James Fenimore Cooper
#57. The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#58. I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?
Dan Groat
#59. Bankrupsy stays on your record for 7-10yrs. That gives you an idea how long it takes to rebuild trust.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#60. No matter how long it takes to heal ... we share the same scars ...
Daniel Yanez
#61. My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.
Nayvadius Cash
#62. No matter how long it takes, true love is always worth a wait, because waiting is the sign of true love...
-In Search of a Soulmate.
Swapna Rajput
#63. Faeries are real. Magic is real. My tendency to greet dangerous situations by plunging in headfirst and seeing how long it takes to get myself covered head to toe in blood is also real.
Seanan McGuire
#64. I hate how long it takes to feel radical, militantly maternal self-acceptance.
Anne Lamott
#65. Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.
Randy Pausch
#66. Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes.
Corrie Ten Boom
#67. To take one step forward is the way to the finishing line, it doesn't matter how long it takes as long you'll get there eventually.
Euginia Herlihy
#68. Someone once told her there's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've been together. Hadley has her doubts about how accurate this could possibly be, a calculation so simple for something as complicated as heartbreak.
Jennifer E. Smith
#69. Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.
Ted Allen
#70. You may not know what the outcome will be, but you have to try to give yourself a future, no matter how long it takes. You have to hold on to hope.
Peter W. Smorynski
#71. I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.
Joe Theismann
#72. Be good, be honest and fair, find something I believe in, work hard and keep the faith no matter how long it takes?
Dave Pelzer
#73. I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'
Doug Harvey
#74. When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in.
Janny Wurts
#75. We have a lifetime ahead of us to decide what we're going to do. I love you; heart and soul, and we're going to grow old together. We'll make things right and find our way, no matter how long it takes or where life takes us.
Ella Dominguez
#76. I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it.
Philip Schultz
#77. Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it's only happened three times - usually at work when someone takes me for granted.
Peter Capaldi
#78. A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome; and takes care to leave the company at least as soon as he is wished out of it. Fools never perceive whether they are ill timed or ill placed.
Lord Chesterfield
#79. I don't think many people have ever read the report. Who has read 26 volumes of this case? How many read the summary? If you read the summary, it takes a long time.
John Sherman Cooper
#80. Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.
Sugata Mitra
#81. I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.
Ai Yazawa
#82. Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.
Bill Willingham
#83. How long do you think it takes to get over someone?
Forever. Sometimes it takes forever.
Winna Efendi
#84. Familiar like a forgotten song from long ago that takes you back to a moment the second you hear it. And you recognize who you were. Then. And now. And you have to figure out how to reconcile the two.
Katy Regnery
#85. I have some decades to spare. Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?
Joseph Heller
#86. When people ask us how long does it take for something to manifest, we say, It takes as long as it takes you to release the RESISTANCE. Could be 30 years, could be 40 years, could be 50 years, could be a week. Could be tomorrow afternoon.
Esther Hicks
#87. No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong.
Mark W. Boyer
#88. I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.
John Cleese
#89. I felt a different kind of loss in that moment. It reminded me of how a cocoon must feel when the butterfly emerges. Having nurtured and protected a thing for so long. Only to be left behind one day, a hollow shell, when it suddenly takes flight and never looks back.
J. Walker
#90. We all have different skill sets, interests, concentration cycles, and energy levels. The key is to find out how long it really takes YOU to do the things you need to do and move away from wishful thinking.
Julie Morgenstern
#91. I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge it is, how much space it takes up in your heart and in your thoughts, unless you mention it to other people, they have no idea it exists.
Sharon Shinn
#92. If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long.
Glenn Beck
#93. It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.
P. J. O'Rourke
#94. How long will you be gone?" I asked just to make very clear how I didn't enjoy getting ditched.
"As long as it takes. When I get back, I'll kiss you until you can't stand."
"Stop with the threats. I'll miss you even if you're a jerk.
Bijou Hunter
#95. It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.
Marty Rubin
#96. We recall that to the Cherokee, as to other people who have noticed how long it sometimes takes for humans to develop fully, adulthood comes
if it is coming at all
at the age of fifty-two.
Alice Walker
#97. I've been sober for so many years. It wasn't like you flick a switch, and you're sober. It takes a while. You have to learn how to do everything all over again. You can measure how long that takes in terms of years.
Joe Walsh
#98. I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
Fantasia Barrino
#99. But nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.
B.J. Novak
#100. To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.
Warwick Davis
