Top 100 Sometimes It Takes Quotes
#1. Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.
John Frusciante
#2. That's a bit sweeping. Sometimes it takes a while to find out how good or bad something has been.
Sophie Page
#3. Sometimes it takes being at your lowest point to see who's really there for you. And they're all standing right beside me now. The
A. Zavarelli
#4. Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.
Julia Child
#6. Sometimes it takes more than shouting it to show your pride. It takes more than a sign, a fabulous outfit, or a month of parades. Pride has to resonate from within; shine out to everyone around you. It has mean something to you and only you first before you announce it to the world.
Solange Nicole
#7. Sometimes it takes one instance to have something snap in your mind - rearrange your head - and make you realize what has always been there.
E.L. Todd
#8. Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean.
Terry Teachout
#9. You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.
Caroline Kennedy
#10. I guess sometimes it takes a while for the heart to get the memo from the brain.
Jody Gehrman
#11. Sometimes it takes a kick in the ass to show us what really is important in life, doesn't it?
Felice Stevens
#12. Sometimes it takes more faith to stay in a place, be it in a relationship or a job that seems to be going nowhere than it does take faith to go somewhere else.
Jamie Larbi
#13. I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
Will Rogers
#14. Sometimes it takes bravery in order to be a coward.
Lionel Suggs
#15. Today I will surrender to discipline. I realize that sometimes it takes time to see the fruits of my labors, yet I still need to practice discipline. Help me to remember, God, that I'm moving forward, and that I'm learning the very important art of discipline.
Melody Beattie
#16. Sometimes it takes another person to see us for who we really are.
Priscilla West
#17. Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
Oscar Wilde
#18. People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.
Frederick Lenz
#19. Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.
Audie Murphy
#20. The thing about life, about change, is there are always lessons. Some are subtle, others not, and sometimes it takes being ripped out of your comfort zone to finally get it - then it's transformative.
Lorii Myers
#21. Sometimes it takes a broken heart for us to finally let Jesus in. Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. - Proverbs 20:30 GNT
Kyle Idleman
#22. Scraps of Magic:
These are little scraps of magic & when you paste them together you get a memory of something fine & strong, she said. Sometimes it takes till you're 40 to see it though.
Brian Andreas
#23. Sometimes it takes the story to grow, for the real characters to emerge.
Daniel Kaye
#24. Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
Hampton Sides
#25. Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record.
Joe Perry
#26. Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.
M.C. Beaton
#27. But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
Albert Camus
#28. Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.
Miles Davis
#29. Sometimes it takes a lot of really bad times all lined up in a row before you get yourself together to start having some good ones.
C.J. Berry
#30. You don't know where life's gonna take you. Sometimes it takes you getting carried out of a club and then into a booth as an apology for it.
Rob Dyrdek
#31. Sometimes it takes an entire morning to outlive a dream, to outwake a dream.
Don DeLillo
#32. When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.
Kevin Spacey
#33. Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.
Glen Cook
#34. Sometimes it takes more strength to step back than forward.
Emily R. King
#35. I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.
Dustin Hoffman
#36. I'm such an awful faker. Everything that comes out of my mouth needs to be the real deal. Not that I ever try to be deceiving, but sometimes it takes a while to find your voice and find what you want to say.
Steve Grand
#37. Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.
Anne Lamott
#38. The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.
Carine Roitfeld
#39. It is hard to leave home, and sometimes it takes a long time. *
John Darnielle
#40. Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
Vera Farmiga
#41. Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.
Jackie Chan
#42. Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.
Joan Bauer
#43. Sometimes it takes stepping away from everything to see the things that are wrong.
R.K. Ryals
#44. Sometimes it takes longer to create value, but if the companies generate more earnings, the stocks will ultimately reflect that.
Nelson Peltz
#46. One myth that has become established in the self-development arena is that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. This simply isn't true in all cases. Sometimes it takes a shorter time, sometimes a longer time, and sometimes old habits are so hard to break that new ones never take hold.
Gudjon Bergmann
#47. Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.
Criss Jami
#48. Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Susan L. Taylor
#49. I almost hate to say this, but I am the happiest I have ever been in my life," she told me. "Sometimes it takes going through something so awful to realize the beauty that is out there in this world." Brain
Sheryl Sandberg
#50. Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
Jim Wallis
#51. And sometimes it takes disappointment to remember that this world is not our home.
Emily T. Wierenga
#52. The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it.
Don Shula
#53. Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness
Jocelyn Murray
#54. Sometimes it takes a partner to say, "What is it you want?" because I think we operate in life and sometimes we don't know. We're all in some kind of maze going after the cheese at the end, and we get it and we go, "What is it that we want?"
Kevin Costner
#55. Sometimes it takes a period of deep darkness, before we end up seeing the brightest stars ...
Jose N. Harris
#56. Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.
Marisha Pessl
#57. Sometimes it takes more courage to know when to retreat than to keep fighting.
Richelle Mead
#58. Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.
Bhaskaryya Deka
#59. Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed ... We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.
Gordon Brown
#60. Forgiveness doesn't work that way. You may want to forgive, but you can't do it yet. Forgiving someone can take weeks, months, years. Sometimes it takes a lifetime.
Anne Bishop
#61. Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.
Jennifer V Clancy
#62. Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.
Edwina Findley
#63. Sometimes, minimizing possessions means a dream must die. But this is not always a bad thing. Sometimes, it takes giving up the person we wanted to be in order to fully appreciate the person we can actually become.
Joshua Becker
#64. Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.
Prince
#65. Sometimes it takes every weapon, every tactic, and every strength to get to what I call a good idea.
Sameh Elsayed
#66. Usually, I make a simple beat, throw in the acapella, and then I just improvise on the piano. Whatever comes up, I record the result, and I rework on it. Sometimes it takes a while to come with an idea, but mostly it comes naturally because I already have a connection with the song.
Shook
#67. Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.
Rick Riordan
#68. Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#69. You love me," he said. "That's all I need to know."
"You always say the right thing," Savannah told him, her eyes so filled with love that he almost wept. "Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.
Suzanne Brockmann
#70. Sometimes it takes falling apart to ever have a chance of being fully whole.
Amanda Rose
#71. Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.
Mandy Hale
#72. Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand
Hayley Williams
#73. Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and render unbiased advice.
Richard Branson
#74. Remember that, brethren. You cannot destroy the appointments of the prophets of God. The Lord knows whom He wants to preside in His Church, and sometimes it takes a lot of practicing, guiding, testing, before He may know whether or not one of us is prepared for the present assignment.
Harold B. Lee
#75. Sex is an attachment behavior, reinforcing the social bond between adults. Sometimes it takes the form of passionate, joyful sex between people who are falling in love with each other. Sometimes it takes the form of desperate, grasping sex between people whose attachment is threatened.
Emily Nagoski
#76. Sometimes it takes a walk through the darkness; to totally appreciate the light
L.M. Young
#77. How long do you think it takes to get over someone?
Forever. Sometimes it takes forever.
Winna Efendi
#78. Sometimes it takes a scar to expose the beauty. I prefer a world full of contrast. It's much more interesting.
Katie Delahanty
#79. Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we've got.
Robert Hellenga
#80. But I guess these things can't be controlled. You fall in love when it's right, not necessarily when you want to. It isn't a magic switch you can turn on and off. It just...happens. Sometimes it takes time, and sometimes it happens over night.
Micalea Smeltzer
#81. There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
Nathaniel Kahn
#82. Sometimes it takes letting go of the past to find out who you want to be.
A.J. Pine
#83. Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.
Ally Carter
#84. Sometimes it takes a two-by-four across your head to realize what you want isn't what you'll end up with if you get it.
Kim Harrison
#85. I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.
Roger Clemens
#86. Needless to say, it takes quite a bit of time, plus effort, to go through each stage, step by step, and arrive at a conclusion. Sometimes it takes too long, and by the time I'm convinced, it's already too late. But what're you going to do? That's the kind of person I am.
Haruki Murakami
#88. Sometimes it's hard to see the things that are holding us back. Sometimes it takes a push to make us truly open our eyes.
Lara Adrian
#89. I suppose sometimes it takes getting lost to enjoy the joy of being found
Tricia Goyer
#90. Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
Khaled Hosseini
#91. Sometimes it takes watching someone else observe how you live to realize exactly how you live.
Jasmine Warga
#92. Be accepting. Of everything. People's differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes for people.
Colleen Hoover
#93. No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
Benjamin Hoff
#94. After him I learned, that sometimes, it takes two men to do, the work of one woman.
Key Ballah
#95. Sometimes it takes a little madness to fulfill great things.
Melissa Kuch
#96. Sometimes it takes you to lose something you rely have to learn the good of what you really had.
Auliq Ice
#97. Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win
Rihanna
#98. But sometimes it takes only a photograph and a sentence to make an author cry himself to sleep even years after the photograph was taken.
Lemony Snicket
#99. Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
Allen Klein
#100. Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.
E.L. Konigsburg
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